Senior Director, Digital Asset Strategy & Insights

Gartner; Oslo; Hybrid; NOK 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insights, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Senior Director in Gartner’s BTI group leads research, mentoring, and client engagement with a focus on digital asset platforms across cross-border payments, tokenization and compliance.

The role requires 12+ years in payments/fintech/advisory with strong executive presence, exceptional research/writing, and the ability to travel

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; graduate degree preferred.
• 12+ years in relevant field or industry.
• 3+ years in payments/fintech/advisory with exposure to large enterprise or government clients.
• Strong understanding of tokenization (data and asset), stablecoins, tokenized deposits, blockchain and the digital asset regulatory landscape.
• Familiarity with enterprise processes and architectures that need to integrate digital asset capabilities.
• Demonstrate executive presence; can immediately establish credibility with executives and stakeholders
• Strong organizational skills; ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high quality deliverables
• Demonstrate excellence in research and writing ability
• Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where applicable)

Responsibilities

• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have insights” content.
• Develop new insights and ideas through thought leadership and offer compelling, actionable approaches to client's needs and requests that accelerate the client's ability to act
• 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 positions across a team of analysts
• Bring provocative, independent insights to Gartner leaders that can evolve the course of a research agenda
• 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
• 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
• 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 in the Insights community
• 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
• Be client‑centric while actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions

Skills

Tokenization

Blockchain

Payments

Enterprise architecture

Thought leadership

Research & writing

Executive presence

Presentation skills

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Graduate degree preferred

Job description

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insights, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Senior Director in Gartner’s BTI group leads research, mentoring, and client engagement with a focus on digital asset platforms across cross-border payments, tokenization and compliance.

The role requires 12+ years in payments/fintech/advisory with strong executive presence, exceptional research/writing, and the ability to travel