Gartner

Sr Director Analyst, Emerging Technology and AI Software Engineering (Remote UK)

Remote - United Kingdom Full time

What makes Gartner Business and Technology Insights a GREAT fit for you?

When you join Gartner, you’ll be part of a team that values curiosity, expert insights, bold ideas, and intellectual courage, while driving partnerships with global organizations to make the right decisions on their key initiatives. Through constant learning, discovery, innovation, and collaboration, you’ll not only help clients accomplish their mission-critical priorities but also grow your career and the scope of your impact across industries. Our culture demands dedication— and rewards it with opportunity. If you’re always looking for what’s next in business and technology, Gartner is looking for you.

As a Gartner Analyst, you will create and advise on a portfolio of Gartner research, communicate it to clients and support sales in new sales and client retention by demonstrating expert knowledge in this subject area with potential clients. Your research portfolio will provide insight, predictions and actionable advice to clients around emerging technology and trends and AI software engineering.

The Emerging Technology and Trends (ETT) Practice is dedicated to discovering the bleeding edge of technology innovation and advising strategy and innovation leaders on investment and monetization strategies.

What you will do:

  • Investigate, analyze, write, present, and advise on critical Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Development innovations and issues facing senior executives in global high technology provider organizations and industry adopters.

  • Create innovative, thought-leading, and highly leveraged written research offering compelling, objective, and actionable advice for Gartner clients.

  • Participate in Gartner’s ETT research methodology, including case-based research by speaking with senior executives, academics, industry experts, and venture capitalists. Work with a team of ETT experts to classify and code key emerging trends, barriers, and accelerators to adoption.

  • Provide sales and business development support, serving as the voice of AI enabled SW development.

  • Respond to client inquiries, providing individualized advice specific to a client role in a high tech provider or adopter context via video conferencing.

  • Create and deliver presentation materials for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings via video conferencing or in-person.

Who you are:

  • Lead a product or engineering team to build and bring AI enabled software development tools to market. Working with marketing to communicate the benefits of the product portfolio.

  • Experience ensuring success and overcoming obstacles of design, development, deployment and scaling of AI enabled software development tools across multiple industries and geographies.

  • Have lead edge AI software engineering and development approaches and techniques such as: AI coding assistants, Vibe Coding, AI enabled spec driven design, software defined life cycle (SDLC), DevOps, and security.

  • AI related digital technology foundations such as: AI Ops, AI Governance, Generative AI, Foundation Models, advanced Simulation techniques, Synthetic Data, and so forth.

  • Have presented to senior audiences and conferences, communicating vision AND benefits and relevance of an AI enabled SW development approach and product portfolio.

  • Experience with leading edge and emerging AI software development pipelines and approaches: Architecture, application, productization, or business models across business, academia, R&D, or government.

  • Building the future of AI enabled software development: Perspectives on next steps beyond GenAI coding and SLDC and the main opportunities AI native software development can offer enterprises.

What you will need:

  • 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience.

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred

  • Strategic thought leadership expertise in the full SDLC, DevOps, AI enabled software development tools.

  • Technology Acumen: Deep understanding of emerging AI enabled SW development tools and technologies, markets, costs, and providers.

  • Supply-side Experience: Recent experience in bringing AI enabled software engineering tools to market.

  • Demand-side Experience: Recent experience in supporting the adoption of AI software or AI software engineering tools across multiple industries and geographies.

  • Research Acumen: Critical thinking, curiosity, and self-motivation to discover and make sense of emerging technology early signals.

  • Business and Financial Acumen: Expertise in the business of AI software development and related tools, products and services, company finances, and investor motivation.

  • Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical, and presentation skills.

  • Executive presence with the ability to engage C-level provider and end-user clients and respond effectively to questions to quickly build rapport.

  • Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a multicultural, global team.

  • Strong organizational skills: ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high-quality deliverables.

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Who are we? 

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world.

Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That’s why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work? 

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance.

We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients.

Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

What do we offer? 

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. 

In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Ready to grow your career with Gartner? Join us.


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