Physical Artificial Intelligence Expert (Senior Director, Analyst - Remote US)

 About the role:

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 serves as a leader within Gartner’s Business and Technology Insights (BTI) group, with a credible voice within their designated market at local, regional and global levels. 

This role will be part of the Artificial Intelligence Practice, which focuses on providing strategic and technical advice to IT executives such as Chief Information Officers, CTOs, and Chief AI Officers and their teams. This AI expert role will research the connection between digital intelligence and physical hardware, creating systems that perceive, reason, and act in the real world. 

What you’ll do: 

• 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

•  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

• 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  

What you will need: 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• 12+ years of relevant field or industry experience

• Experience designing and implementing robotic systems that integrate AI-driven perception, motion planning, and real-time control.

• Knowledge of and experience with physical AI, machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI. 

• Experience working with industry vendors to implement AI and effectively managing those relationships

• Strong knowledge of ensuring that enterprise data is AI ready and able to scale to support AI initiatives preferable.

• Demonstrate executive presence; can immediately establish credibility with executives and additional 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 

• Proficient in analyzing and synthesizing data; can effectively apply patterns and frameworks while drawing and defending conclusions to client challenges

• Strong communicator who is able to explain complex concepts concisely and simply 

• Subject matter expert comfortable presenting at large and small-scale speaking engagements 

• Strong business and financial acumen 

• Deep knowledge of the global and competitive landscape within subject area as well as the interplay in that market

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 25% (where applicable)

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