Senior Director, Analyst – Strategic Innovation Insights
Remote EuropeFull-TimeDirector
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Job Details
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Required Skills
- Artificial IntelligenceCybersecurity
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Graduate degree preferred)
- 12+ years of experience at the intersection of Tech and Business, with heavy emphasis on enterprise IT departments
- Understanding of IT governance, infrastructure constraints, and security protocols
- Extensive experience in consulting organizations, service providers or technology vendors working directly with adopter organizations on innovation initiatives
- Deep understanding of the emerging technologies landscape, especially AI (including Physical AI), human-machine relations, autonomous drones, autonomous business, digital sovereignty issues and cybersecurity challenges related to AI
- Demonstrated AI literacy—including hands-on ability to work with Generative AI platforms such as Gemini, ChatGPT or Copilot
- Familiarity with agentic AI tools and capability to create intelligence grounded on Gartner’s neural network resources
- Expertise in re-engineering the innovation pipeline, able to integrate signaling, early risk detection, and tech maturity evaluations into a cohesive formula
- Ready for a "super agile" world; every strategy must lead to a practical outcome where implementation can begin immediately
- A builder who leverages AI/Emerging Tech to automate and de-risk the innovation journey itself
- Understands the “T” in IT, ensuring agile innovation integrates with the broader corporate ecosystem
- Demonstrate executive presence; can immediately establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high quality deliverables
- Exceptional communication and analytical skills, with a proven ability to synthesize and analyze data, apply structured frameworks to complex problems, articulate well‑defended conclusions clearly, and confidently present subject‑matter expertise to audiences of all sizes
- Strong business and financial acumen
- Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market
- Ability to work independently, while also being intrinsically motivated to collaborate across teams and support the workflow of others, in a multicultural global team
- Learning agile and adept with navigating highly matrixed environments
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where applicable)
Responsibilities
- Create unique, thought provoking, insightful and highly leveraged “must-have” content and advice for Gartner C-level clients
- Demonstrate strong thought leadership, develop new ideas and indispensable insights, offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests
- Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a client’s barriers or overall needs and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward
- Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing insights and unique strong positions, across a team of analysts
- Contribute with provocative, independent insights into the analyst community to form strong positions and evolving the content planning
- Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide enterprises and vendors with actionable insights
- Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice aligned to their designated content area via virtual or face-to-face interactions
- Create and deliver high value presentation materials on and off stage for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings
- Support BTI and Sales through sales support activities, capturing clients’ challenges and serving as voice of the market
- Provide high quality and timely content peer review
- Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy
- Actively participate in ideation and research discussions, and collaborate effectively with peers in the Insights community
- Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members
- Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions
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