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

About the role

EY-Parthenon’s unique combination of transformative strategy, transactions, and corporate finance delivers real-world value. We partner with CEOs, Boards, Private Equity, and Governments to enable bold, informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree with outstanding academic performance and at least 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 3 years of related work experience.
• Direct, substantive experience in the interactive media and gaming sector, through prior strategy consulting work, in-house roles at a publisher, developer, platform, or investor, or a combination, sufficient to lead senior client conversations credibly from day one with limited ramp-up.
• A track record of leading engagement teams and owning delivery quality, scope, and client outcomes on complex strategy, transaction, or transformation work.
• Genuine investment in gaming, evidenced by ongoing engagement with the games, platforms, and communities the sector revolves around rather than professional exposure alone.
• Strong organization and time-management skills, with the discipline to deliver high-quality work under pressure and to project deadlines across multiple concurrent engagements.
• Proficiency in English, including the ability to listen, read, and communicate clearly and persuasively in writing and verbally in a professional environment, including at the C-suite and Board level.

Qualifications

• Must reside in or be in a commutable distance to their office location for this position.
• The ability and willingness to travel and work in excess of standard hours when necessary. In certain circumstances, travel may be required beyond their work location based on client and project needs.

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.

Pay

$220,000 to $235,000 per year, depending on experience and location.

Schedule

Hybrid model with most people in external, client-serving roles working together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project, or year.