Senior Director, Infrastructure Cloud Strategies (Remote US)

About the Role:
Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have research, 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, establishing oneself as a credible voice within their designated market at local, regional and global levels. Utilizing exceptional research and analytical skills, a Senior Director plays a significant role in producing pragmatic and provocative research which Gartner clients consume and apply to propel their business toward key objectives. They are a trusted source of advice for clients, reinforcing Gartner’s value every day by engaging them via in-person meetings, virtual meetings, sales support visits and Gartner conferences to discuss complex client challenges and offer appropriate recommendations.
Gartner is looking for an analyst to provide insights to our cloud service user and provider clients in the United States and beyond. As a Senior Director Analyst in the Cloud Infrastructure practice, coverage area will apply broad knowledge of IT Public Cloud, technologies, vendors (such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, Oracle OCI, Equinix), and deployment issues for our clients.

Additionally, there will be a focus on non-technology aspects of digital infrastructure, including data center, pricing, and organizational challenges. This position will provide advice to clients on best practices for moving to a public Cloud (IaaS and PaaS) platform as well as specific guidance to clients on evaluating and selecting cloud vendors pricing contracts and cloud centers of excellence. This can include but is not limited to topics such as:

• Challenges and opportunities of the Heads of Infrastructure & Operations

• Cloud strategies

• Hybrid digital infrastructure

• Multi-cloud architectures

• Cloud Platforms

• Cloud Security

• Cloud Native Infrastructure

• Strategic Cloud Platform Services / Cloud infrastructure and platform services (CIPS, IaaS, PaaS),

• Consulting, implementation, integration, or runtime services associated with these

• Impact on and of GenAI on Heads of Infrastructure & Operations

• SaaS implementation on top of cloud infrastructure sometimes known as SaaS Ops.

• Industry cloud implementations (for specific sectors)

• Cloud governance

• Sovereign Cloud

• Cloud Sustainability

• Edge Infrastructure Solutions

• Colocation

• Cloud & Digital transformation

• Integration with SaaS

At Gartner, we emphasize cutting edge thinking, disciplined analysis and most important, actionability. We are passionate about helping clients solve business problems. If this resonates with you, and you have the skills and experience we are looking for, we’d like to hear from you.

What you will do:

• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have insight” content

• You will work with a collaborative team of highly experienced analysts and advisors to build authoritative insight and advice that directly addresses the priorities and challenges of cloud service provider clients.

• Serving as an authority on the technology market, buyer behavior, and local market implications (including regulatory and compliance) that affect the way cloud services are delivered across North America.

• Develop new insight 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 c