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

EY•Atlanta, GA

72d•$250,000 - $290,000•Hybrid

About The Position

EY-Parthenon’s Strategy and Execution – Corporate and Growth Strategy – Interactive Media and Gaming practice is hiring a Senior Director to lead complex strategy, transaction, and transformation engagements in the interactive media and gaming sector. The role helps shape the practice’s sector presence and develop future gaming leaders within the firm. The Senior Director owns engagements end-to-end, serving as the primary senior client contact and the Partner’s day-to-day counterpart on delivery. The role sets the engagement’s answer trajectory, manages Directors leading workstreams, and is accountable for work quality, client relationships, and commercial outcomes. Senior Directors also work with Partners to originate and close new business by leading pitches, designing proposals, and structuring sales. Engagement topics include 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. The Senior Director is expected to bring a differentiated perspective on the industry, contribute to practice direction and thought leadership, and build and coach talent across levels. The role is based in one of the listed U.S. offices, and requires living within commuting distance of the selected office. It follows a hybrid model, with client-serving employees generally working together in person 40–60% of the time over an engagement, project, or year. Travel and work beyond standard hours may be necessary based on client and project needs.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree with outstanding academic performance and 8 years of related work experience, or a graduate degree and approximately 7 years of related work experience.
Direct, substantive interactive media and gaming sector experience through strategy consulting, senior in-house work at a publisher, developer, platform, or investor, or a combination sufficient to lead C-suite and Board conversations credibly.
Genuine ongoing engagement with the games, platforms, and communities in the sector.
Experience owning complex strategy, transaction, and transformation engagements end-to-end, including delivery quality, scope, commercial outcome, senior client relationships, and multiple concurrent cases.
Operational discipline to manage concurrent engagements, balance delivery quality against commercial outcomes, protect team capacity, and meet client deadlines.
Business development record that includes originating opportunities, leading proposals, and converting senior client relationships into sold work.
Must reside in or be within commuting distance of the selected office location.
Ability and willingness to travel and work beyond standard hours when necessary, including travel beyond the work location based on client and project needs.

Nice To Haves

MBA with six years of related experience, or a graduate degree with at least nine years of related experience, ideally in client advisory, strategic planning, or corporate development in a professional services or operating environment serving interactive media and gaming clients.
Examples of transformative thinking that reframed a client or company strategy rather than incrementally optimizing the existing strategy.
Established senior relationships with gaming publishers, studios, platforms, investors, or industry bodies that can support origination, delivery, and thought leadership.
Knowledge of leveraging firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple concurrent engagements end-to-end, owning the answer, client relationship, delivery quality, scope, and commercial outcome in partnership with the engagement Partner.
Define engagement objectives, scope, and structure, and translate ambiguous client problems into an appropriate answer trajectory.
Manage Directors leading individual workstreams and maintain intellectual rigor by pressure-testing hypotheses and seeking disconfirming evidence.
Serve as the primary senior client contact and build durable relationships with C-suite, Board, and investor stakeholders.
Originate and close new work by leading proposals, shaping pursuit strategy, and converting senior client relationships into sold engagements.
Develop and communicate a differentiated point of view on the gaming industry to shape engagement scope, client dialogue, and thought leadership.
Contribute to the practice’s direction through sector strategy, hiring, capability investments, and external presence alongside Partners.
Build, coach, and retain talent across Director, Consultant, Senior Associate, and Associate levels.
Develop subject-matter knowledge through direct engagement with games, player communities, creators, and industry operators.
Manage a portfolio of concurrent engagements, balancing delivery quality and commercial outcomes while protecting team capacity and meeting client deadlines.