Gartner, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director Analyst to serve as an insights leader within its Business & Technology Insights practice, focusing on Artificial Intelligence in legal departments. This fully remote role, open to candidates in the UK or Ireland, involves delivering research-based guidance and strategic advice to general counsel and legal leaders on AI implementation, governance, and transformation.
What You'll Do
- Create unique, defensible and highly consumable written business and technology insights that directly address the AI priorities and opportunities of general counsel and other legal department leaders.
- Serve as a leading authority on legal department AI topics, including legal department AI use cases that draw on traditional, generative, and agentic AI techniques.
- Advise on setting up AI pilots and scaling initiatives within legal departments.
- Ensure proper governance of legal department AI tools.
- Navigate the legal AI vendor landscape.
- Connect AI to legal department processes and overall department transformation efforts.
- Understand and measure the ROI of legal department AI investments.
- Explain how AI technologies and approaches are impacting the legal function.
- Stay abreast of external trends in artificial intelligence relevant to legal department audiences.
- Collaborate with peers and other experts across teams (e.g., Legal, IT, Finance) to understand client challenges, current market dynamics, evaluate vendors, and establish shared and consistent thought leadership and positions on relevant issues.
- Develop in-depth analysis to identify the root cause of a client’s challenges and reframe thinking to drive strategy forward.
- Research, analyze and predict market trends and shifts to provide clients and vendors with actionable insights.
- Provide clients and prospects with actionable advice via virtual or face-to-face interactions.
- Provide sales support, serving as the voice of the market to help research 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 peer review on peers’ research content.
- Have credibility as an industry expert to represent Gartner insights, methodology and strategy.
- Actively participate in innovation & ideation discussions and collaborate effectively with peers in the insights community.
- Identify research process improvements or develop new processes that help the team and the practice provide excellent service delivery.
- Be a mentor and a coach by supporting more junior team members.
- Be client-centric, actively seeking to help clients engage regularly and often with Gartner insights and interactions.
- Create and deliver high-value presentation materials (either in-person or virtual) for Gartner events, industry and professional association conferences, and client briefings.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience in legal functional and/or technology leadership roles or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Profound understanding of the challenges general counsel face as leaders within the enterprise and familiarity with legal department workflows and priorities.
- Experience successfully designing, implementing and managing legal AI strategies and initiatives.
- Deep first-hand knowledge of the legal tech landscape, including market dynamics, vendors, products and emerging use cases, particularly with respect to AI and generative AI, and their impact on legal department processes, technology systems, team structures and data governance.
- In-depth knowledge of and experience with the vendor market, functionalities, and capabilities related to AI tools and service providers.
- Familiarity and experience with primary vendors in this space (e.g., Harvey, Ironclad, Luminance, Brightflag) as well as near-neighbor and emerging vendors.
- Experience and interest in advising, presenting to, and writing for the most senior levels of an organization (e.g., General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Supply Chain Officer).
- Demonstrated executive presence; ability to immediately establish credibility with executives and additional stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills: ability to work under tight deadlines and produce high-quality deliverables.
- Demonstrated excellence in research and writing ability.
- Strong written and verbal proficiency, analytical and presentation skills; ability to engage clients and respond effectively to questions.
- Proficiency in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex concepts simply and concisely.
- Subject matter expertise & comfort presenting at large and small-scale speaking engagements.
- Strong business and financial acumen.
- 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 agility and experience navigating highly matrixed environments.
- Ability to represent Gartner's research methodology and strategies effectively at all levels.
Technical Stack
- AI
- Generative AI
- Agentic AI
- Harvey
- Ironclad
- Luminance
- Brightflag
Team & Environment
- Part of Gartner’s Corporate Assurance Practice, collaborating with peers across Legal, IT, Finance, and other teams
- Work within a dynamic team structure
Benefits & Compensation
- Fully remote work flexibility for UK or Ireland residents.
- World-class benefits.
- Highly competitive compensation.
- Disproportionate rewards for top performers.
- Hybrid work environment with flexibility and support to thrive virtually.
- Opportunities for professional growth and personal flourishing.
- Inclusive teams composed of individuals from diverse geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations.
- Investment in great leaders who bring out the best in employees.
- Purposeful, engaging, and inspiring work community.
Salary: highly competitive. Top performers receive disproportionate rewards.
Work Mode
- Fully remote with virtual collaboration; hybrid model allowing productive remote work and in-person gatherings
- Open to candidates in the UK or Ireland
- Global role with virtual teamwork across regions
Gartner provides 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. The company is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including those with disabilities.
