Visual Communications Consulting (VCC) sits inside Disputes & Economics and serves every practice on the Ankura map. We are one bench with three doors. Trial Studio delivers courtroom-grade demonstratives, scientific illustration, 2D and 3D animation, jury research, courtroom technology, and opening and closing presentations built shoulder to shoulder with counsel. Creative Comms carries transformation narratives, executive and board storytelling, crisis and litigation communications, and employee campaigns. Net New Creative is the multiplier: AI-augmented production, analytics storytelling, interactive exhibits, explainability design for models and data, and a content engine that runs across social, video, web, and events, all operating inside the firm’s secure AI environment. The overlaps are the offer. Every practice at Ankura produces analysis that must persuade someone; VCC exists to bring those stories to life. We are expanding from a regional trial-services practice into a national and, in time, global one, and we are hiring the leaders who will build it.
We are looking for a Managing Director to do two things at once: lead the Creative Communications arc of the practice nationally, and anchor our regional expansion into Houston and Dallas. This is an origination role for a creative leader who has already run a strategic communications and creative function inside a consulting or professional services firm, who has produced litigation graphics and trial communications for high-stakes disputes, and who has sold, staffed, and delivered work that a client paid for on its own merits.
You will build a book. You will carry relationships with general counsel, communications chiefs, and outside counsel across energy, industrial, manufacturing, construction, and adjacent sectors where Houston and Dallas give us a natural foothold. You will work alongside Ankura’s Forensics & Investigations, Risk & Compliance, Cybersecurity, Turnaround & Restructuring, and Global Strategic Advisory practices to bring visual and narrative intelligence into their engagements, billed to the client and accretive to the work. And you will lead the standing up of the Houston pod, a Trial Director and Trial Technician team backed by the core studio, from a vetted contractor network into a permanent presence as demand proves out.
The right person is as comfortable in a war room the night before opening statements as in a boardroom presenting a change narrative to a CEO, and is already producing with generative AI tools rather than reading about them.