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

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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.

With deep functional and sector expertise, paired with innovative AI‑powered technology and an investor mindset, we partner with CEOs, Boards, Private Equity and Governments every step of the way – enabling you to shape your future with confidence.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…