Senior Director, Data & AI Strategy for Higher Education

Gartner; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Gartner seeks a Senior Director to lead D&A and AI strategy within the BTI group, guiding CIO clients through architecture, governance and value realization. You will craft must-have insights, mentor peers, and represent Gartner at events and client briefings.

You will drive research on modern data platforms, governance, analytics delivery, and AI-enabled analytics to translate complex topics into practical decisions for organizations worldwide.

Aufgaben

• Support and advise CIOs on relevant D&A challenges
• Provide in-depth domain expertise in D&A and support efforts to lead D&A strategy, modernization, architecture, governance and more
• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged must-have insights content for CIOs through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests that accelerate the client's ability to act
• Support CIO Priority initiatives, such as Modernizing Platforms to scale AI
• Develop analysis to identify client barriers and reframing strategy
• Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients 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
• Build credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy
• Actively participate in innovation, ideation, and research discussions and collaborate effectively with peers
• Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and BTI provide excellent service delivery
• Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members
• Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a research agenda
• Support BTI and Sales: Provide sales support serving as voice of the market to help Insights teams create content and to drive engagement with clients to make progress against their critical priorities to grow their business
• Provide high quality and timely content peer review
• Be client-centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions
• Lead research on how D&A leaders develop, align and govern D&A and AI strategies and operating models that deliver measurable business outcomes
• Advise clients on AI value realization, use-case prioritization, portfolio governance, funding, metrics and delivery models for D&A products, projects and programs
• Evaluate emerging practices for agentic AI, composite AI and AI-enabled analytics, including enterprise use cases, production readiness, reliability, risk and organizational implications
• Develop guidance on integrated data and AI governance, responsible AI, AI governance frameworks, data privacy, residency and sovereignty, and scalable enterprise adoption
• Cover AI

Jobbeschreibung

Gartner seeks a Senior Director to lead D&A and AI strategy within the BTI group, guiding CIO clients through architecture, governance and value realization. You will craft must-have insights, mentor peers, and represent Gartner at events and client briefings.

You will drive research on modern data platforms, governance, analytics delivery, and AI-enabled analytics to translate complex topics into practical decisions for organizations worldwide.