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 – solutions that work in practice, not just on paper. Benefiting from EY’s full spectrum of services, we’ve reimagined strategic consulting to work in a world of increasing complexity.

The interactive media and gaming industry is being reshaped by device-agnostic player behavior, rising content costs, and the shift of platform value toward franchise depth and developer experience. Operating models built for a prior era are straining to keep up, and clients need partners who can reframe the questions, not just answer them. Within our practice, you will join a team that pairs deep sector fluency with EY-Parthenon's broader strategy, transactions, and corporate finance capabilities to help studios, publishers, platforms, and investors place bolder, better-informed bets. You will develop your career through high-impact engagements, exposure to industry leaders, and a culture that prizes original thinking over playbooks.

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

• 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.

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

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $220,000 to $235,000. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

Schedule

We expect most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.