EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy - Media and Gaming - Director

Key Responsibilities

Within EY-Parthenon’s Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy – Interactive Media and Gaming practice, Directors will own engagement delivery end-to-end across the issues shaping the industry: long-range growth and portfolio strategy, M&A and investment diligence, content and live-services monetization, platform and storefront economics, franchise extension, operating model transformations, and more.

You will be accountable for the quality of the answer, the strength of the client relationship, and the development of the team, and you will be expected to bring a point of view on where the industry is heading that shapes how engagements are scoped and sold.

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex gaming engagements, translating ambiguous client problems into structured workplans, hypotheses, and answers that hold up to senior client scrutiny.
• Own the client relationship at the senior executive level, acting as the day-to-day strategic counterpart to C-suite, Board, and investor stakeholders across publishers, platforms, studios, and PE.
• Drive business development by building proposals and converting client conversations into sold work, contributing directly to the practice’s growth.
• Form and defend a differentiated point of view on the gaming industry's trajectory and use it to shape engagement scope, client dialogue, and thought leadership.
• Build, coach, and retain the next generation of Interactive Media and Gaming talent at the Associate, Senior Associate, and Consultant levels, raising the bar on both analytical rigor and industry fluency.