Director Analyst - Enterprise Growth and Cost, Financial Strategy (Remote - U.S.)

Title: Principal Analyst, Finance AI Expert What you will do: Quickly learn and execute Gartner's proven methodology for identifying world-class insights that provide clients with practical solutions to many of today's and tomorrow’s biggest and most amorphous business and AI challenges. Create impactful, thought-provoking, actionable, timely, objective and trusted insights for the most advanced CFOs in AI and finance transformation. Translate these cutting-edge insights into practical teachings that enable typical CFOs and other senior finance leaders advance AI and transform the finance function. Create prose, graphics, and presentation content with engaging storylines that change how senior finance executives should approach their most strategic challenges. Contribute ideas that move forward your colleagues’ thinking about how senior finance executives can solve their most critical challenges. Facilitate research interviews with senior finance executives, identifying shared challenges, testing solution hypotheses and ideas, and teaching them in-the-moment. Continuously deepen terrain and AI expertise to develop thought leadership in research positions across the finance analyst team. Engage with senior finance leaders in your expertise areas, helping them solve complex challenges and improve business outcomes. What you will need: Enthusiasm for intellectually wrestling with mental or conceptual spaces where no one has fully explored the topic yet, existing models, assumptions, or frameworks don’t exist, and there is room for fresh insight, innovation, or reframing. Appetite to dive deep into a given content terrain and AI to develop expertise and distill key findings. Ability to gather, analyze, restructure, identify and create original insights from qualitative and/or quantitative data. Eagerness to share ideas you aren’t certain about with teammates, senior stakeholders, and clients when the ideas will then be subject to respectful critique and intellectual debate. Receptivity to respectful, constructive feedback and ability to thrive in a highly iterative environment. Strong oral and written communication skills, with particular attention to precision of language and ability to organize information logically. High aspiration to constantly learn and improve, paired with passion for independently exploring new ideas and expanding existing knowledge. Competence to meet deadlines, multi-task, and manage work under ambiguity (e.g., changing factors, limited information). Ability to navigate a highly matrixed, remote work environment with colleagues across the globe by proactively forming networks. Experiences and skills that will help you succeed: Master's (Sociology, History, Philosophy, Literature, MBA etc.) or PhD degrees 5+ years of experience in research and creating client-ready insights Academic background or work experience in or with corporate finance Demonstrated experience using AI tools in professional or personal settings, with a strong willingness to experiment, learn continuously, and stay current with emerging AI capabilities Understanding of how technology, business trends, and macro shifts affect the enterprise and its leadership #LI-remote #LI-PP8 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 business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities. Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 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 vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities – opportunities that may not even exist right now – for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. 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. Gartner is the world authority on AI At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes. It’s an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you. 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. Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 84,000 USD - 112,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more. The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity. 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