Early Careers Assistant Director Team Lead - Pacific jobs at Ey in United States, San Francisco

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.

Skills and attributes for success

• Ability to handle financial due diligence engagements.
• Experience analyzing financial and operational results of businesses to be acquired or sold through reviewing accounting records and conducting interviews with management.
• Ability to assist clients in the preparation of SEC filings.
• Ability to identify negotiation factors for purchase price and deal structuring.
• Up to date knowledge on industry trends and technologies, as well as seasonality and cyclicality on cash flow requirements to provide knowledge and insight to clients.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience.
• Significant public accounting experience.
• Excellent analytical skills and the confidence to translate complex data into meaningful insights.
• The ability to prioritize effectively on projects and the skills to adapt quickly to new challenges and concepts.
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills, and the ability to develop long-lasting relationships both internally and externally.
• You must either reside in or be in a commutable distance to your 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 your work location based on client and project needs.

Ideally, you will have

• A proven record of excellence in a mergers or acquisitions transactions role.
• An active CPA certification.
• Experience gained within another large professional services organization.
• Established networking skills in a relevant industry.
• Knowledge of how to leverage firm-approved AI tools in a business setting, including Microsoft Copilot.

Key Responsibilities:

• Messaging Strategy: Define and drive the messaging architecture across campaigns, digital properties, and customer communications to ensure clarity, consistency, and impact.
• Team Leadership: Lead, inspire, and mentor a blended global team of writers, designers, digital strategists, and MarCom specialists in a decentralized, AI-driven work environment.
• Integrated Marketing Execution: Oversee campaign development, AI-enabled asset creation, web/digital design, customer, stakeholder and employee communications.
• Client Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to client marketing, communications, and customer experience leaders, balancing creativity with regulatory and organizational requirements.
• Practice Growth: Play a key role in building our West Coast marketing capability, shaping team culture, attracting talent, and developing new offerings.
• Innovation: Leverage AI-driven marketing tools and approaches to accelerate content production, personalization, and campaign effectiveness.
• Quality & Compliance: Ensure all outputs meet brand standards, regulatory requirements, and high levels of creative and messaging excellence.

• Opportunity to lead messaging and MarCom transformation for a high-profile engagement.
• A platform to grow a West Coast Marketing practice.
• A collaborative culture that values creativity, innovation, and client impact.
• Access to cutting-edge AI and digital marketing tools to push the boundaries of communications work.

As an Early Careers Team Lead (Assistant Director), you’ll own Early Careers recruiting responsibilities across specific markets/regions, service lines, schools, events and programs. You’ll have supervision responsibilities within a team including coaching, mentoring, performance management and support. You’ll be part of a collaborative team with high visibility to leadership and the opportunity to network with a wide array of stakeholders and influencers. You’ll be leading efforts that bring future leaders into the firm, so our reputation for excellence and innovation will be in your hands.

Your key responsibilities

You’ll take on a wide range of responsibilities from owning headcount, facilitating and attending Early Careers recruiting events, managing programs around early-ID initiatives, and providing coaching and training for your team. You’ll work closely with business and recruiting leaders to execute assigned recruiting strategies. You can expect, but will not be limited to executing the following responsibilities:

• Ensure that the strategic objectives of Early Careers leadership align with the daily activities and goals of each team member, oversee operations and provide guidance to meet established goals and KPIs
• Implement overarching strategies at the team level, making tactical adjustments to address specific challenges and opportunities, serving as an extended point of contact for stakeholders

• Act as a mentor and coach to team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional development while addressing real-time feedback and submitting regular performance evaluations through SuccessFactors
• Oversee the daily operations of recruiters and recruiting coordinators, including scheduling, event coverage, and serving as the first point of contact for personnel matters such as onboarding, training, performance, role/workload shifts, leave notifications, vacation scheduling, employee relations, and resignation processing
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert, including monitoring external trends, for the profile/competency/universities for which you oversee, providing insights to inform the business through strategic conversations

• Elevate significant strategy conversations, requests for change in team support or approach to recruiting, and/or difficult situations to Early Careers Leadership team
• Oversee budgeting responsibilities for your designated universities, cities, and/or sub-service line ensuring optimal utilization of resources (team members, and/or recruiting spend); assist Early Careers budget management with reforecasting and elevating potential overages/surpluses
• Manage hiring production (requisitions, candidates). This hiring production will represent a small percentage of overall responsibilities.

Skills and attributes for success

You’ll be managing a diverse array of talent projects, headcount, events and people so strong organizational skills and attention to detail are key. You’ll have the ability to build and nurture long term relationships with internal and external stakeholders. You’ll need to be creative and innovative in developing sourcing strategies that attract top talent.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 6-8 years of related experience

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Experience with implementation of recruitment strategies

• Knowledge of the geography, service line, or college/university landscape (respective by role) is preferred
• Knowledge of strategy consulting landscape for roles directly supporting EY Parthenon is preferred
• Leadership and team management capabilities, inclusive of mentoring, coaching, and driving accountability
• Strong communication skills with an emphasis on stakeholder management
• Experience with large scale speaking engagements
• Knowledge of evolving recruitment tools and technologies
• Demonstrated adaptability and agility using data-based decision making

• Practical knowledge of common computer programs (i.e., Microsoft Office) including applicant tracking systems (i.e., SuccessFactors, Yello)
• Travel expectations: 25-45% depending on the time of recruiting season

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience working within professional services or a large matrix corporate environment
• Experience supervising teams and providing counseling

• Analytical skills to interpret and react to complex and constantly evolving data

What we look for

We’re interested in creative and innovative professionals ready to manage the recruiting process and build a talent pipeline of future leaders within our organization. You’ll need to be agile, ready to lead and learn, and have a genuine passion for finding the right talent.

Your key responsibilities

Responsible for the logistics of the Early Careers recruiting strategy including identifying creative approaches to Early Careers recruiting support activities

• Utilizes the Early Careers Applicant Tracking System (ATS) in order to track and report on candidates or event activities
• Supports the relationship building process between candidates and EY professionals
• Liaises and manages communications with Campus Career Services Office and other external stakeholders to facilitate Early Careers recruiting activities
• Plans for and manages in-office candidate visits including event planning, troubleshooting, and facilitating of all on-site program logistics or issues
• Organizes and executes Early Careers events including but not limited to: on-campus events such as information sessions, EY branded events, career fairs, etc., in-office events such as candidate sell experiences, early-ID programs, internship events, etc., and EY programs such as National Intern Celebration, Future Leaders Summit, etc.
• Provides on-site support for Recruiter and may stand in for Recruiter when needed
• Liaises with client service teams to solicit help, provide awareness, and provide instructions for various Early Careers events
• Communicates with client service teams to provide recruiting updates, inquiries, and instructions
• Maintains calendar of Early Careers events
• Liaises with TA2 Activation Center for consistency in strategy and messaging
• Maintains knowledge of EY Early Careers strategy, branding, and messaging and supports the creation and use of US-wide templates, procedures, and initiative

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Bachelor’s degree in related discipline or equivalent work experience
• 1-2 years of experience in recruiting or related discipline
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Proficient in applicant tracking or recruiting databases/systems
• Maintain professional knowledge and experience; build functional and/or technical knowledge and skills necessary for a high level of accomplishment and keep up-to-date with recent developments related to recruiting, EY brand/messaging, and event procedures
• Collect and synthesize information, identifying issues and escalating as appropriate
• Contribute knowledge and promote a knowledge-sharing culture
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Ability to work efficiently and effectively while maintaining attention to detail
• Ability to work with teams in different office locations and promote teamwork
• Strong event planning and logistics skills
• Exceptional customer service focus, including attention to producing high quality results
• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing work environment/priorities

As part of our Enterprise Support Services team, you’ll be an integral part of our business enablement functions that keep our organization running strong. You’ll use your

You’ll provide administrative support to a variety of executives within the organization. You may also assist service line or engagement-specific teams. You’ll be a key member of a team using your experience, skills and knowledge of organizational policies, procedures and practices to help achieve the goals of the business. You’ll be part of a high-performing, diverse and inclusive team sharing best practices.

Your key responsibilities

• Organizing and managing comprehensive schedules and travel and expenses
• Preparing and revising documents including presentations, emails, reports, agendas
• Coordinating internal and external events as needed, if applicable

• Developing relationships with key internal/external stakeholders
• Assisting with project plans for small project teams in local and virtual team settings
• Responding to internal customer needs; making certain all queries/concerns are resolved and adhere to firm policy
• Applying and sharing knowledge obtained on work processes, resources, structure and business of the firm/service line/functional group
• Working closely with managers to receive timely feedback, providing quality service and making certain of satisfaction

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• Attention to details and self-assurance of quality of work performed
• Effectively manage conflicting priorities, organize workflow and team with colleagues to accomplish tasks and balance workloads
• Proactively leverage and share knowledge with colleagues
• Gain, develop and demonstrate solid working knowledge of firm structure, service lines, key personnel, software and organizational policies and procedures
• Receive limited supervision; more often work independently

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Associate degree in related discipline or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of three years of related work experience as an Executive or Administrative Assistant supporting multiple key stakeholders within a large corporate environment
• Bilingual (English and Spanish)
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Proficiency in automated calendar management tools (e.g., Outlook) and various IOS and Android mobile devices
• Proficiency in MS SharePoint