Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy -Media and Gaming- Sr Director

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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. As a Senior Director in our Interactive Media and Gaming practice, you will help shape how EY-Parthenon shows up in the sector, leading the delivery of our most complex engagements and the development of the next generation of gaming leaders within the firm.

Within EY-Parthenon’s Strategy and Execution - Corporate and Growth Strategy – Interactive Media and Gaming practice, Senior Directors will serve as the primary client point of contact on EY-Parthenon engagements and the Partner's day-to-day counterpart on delivery. You own the case end-to-end, set the answer trajectory, manage one or more Directors leading individual work streams, and are accountable for the quality of the work, the strength of the client relationship, and the commercial outcome of the engagement.

You also play a leading role in business development, working alongside Partners to originate, shape, and close new opportunities, including preparing for and leading pitch meetings, designing proposals, and structuring the sale.

Our Interactive Media and Gaming practice engagements span the issues shaping the future of the industry: long-range growth and portfolio strategy, M&A and investment diligence, content and live-services monetization, platform and storefront economics, franchise extension, and operating model transformation across studios, central services, and hardware. Senior Directors are expected to bring a point of view on where the industry is heading that shapes how engagements are scoped, sold, and delivered, and that contributes to the broader direction of the practice.

• Lead full engagements end-to-end across multiple concurrent cases, owning the answer, the client relationship, and the commercial outcome in partnership with the engagement Partner.
• Define the objective, scope, and structure of strategy and diligence engagements in consultation with the Partner and translate ambiguous client problems into the right answer trajectory before work begins.
• Hold the bar on intellectual rigor, pressure-testing hypotheses and chasing disconfirming evidence so the work reflects what is actually true rather than what is convenient to conclude.
• Continually deepen subject‑matter knowledge by engaging directly with the games, player communities, creators, and operators that define the industry, and carry that depth into every client conversation.
• Serve as the primary senior client contact, building durable relationships at the C‑suite, Board, and investor level, and acting as the day‑to‑day strategic counterpart on the most important client conversations.
• Originate and close new work by leading proposals, shaping pursuit strategy, and converting client relationships into sold engagements that grow the practice’s footprint.
• Form, defend, and externalize a differentiated point of view on the gaming industry’s…