Senior Director, Analyst - Endpoint and Infrastructure Security (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, 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 insights 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. As a BTI Analyst, you will be an integral part of a team focused on developing and maturing successful cybersecurity organization structures and processes related to endpoint security as it evolves into workspace security. The successful candidate will use experience and knowledge of endpoint management, deployment and design, endpoint protection, and email and mobile security to advise on successful practices, markets and technologies. What you will do:

• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have” insights.
• 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

Subject Matter Expertise: The Senior Director will apply in-depth knowledge of end point protection including detection and response technologies, vendors, and deployment best practices to client engagements and for research development. There will be a focus on providing advice to clients on evaluation, selection, and deployment of technologies. You will need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; Graduate degree preferred
• 12+ years of relevant field or industry
• Subject Expertise:
  • Background in endpoint design, deployment, management and upgrades
  • Broad knowledge of how security organizations approach
  • Endpoint detection and response
  • Mobile security
  • Mobile device management
  • Phishing detection
  • Malware detection
  • AI-powered endpoint exploitation
  • Evolution of email security
  • Working knowledge in at least three cybersecurity related domains:
  • Endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response
  • Data and Application security
  • Email security
  • Identity and access management
  • Experience integrating identity and access management applications with cybersecurity tooling, specifically endpoint detection and response solutions such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft, Bitdefender, and Trend Micro.
  • Working knowledge of implementing endpoint protection solution(s) in hybrid environments or complex architectures. Experience working with legacy and rare operating systems is a plus.
  • Pulse on leveraging LLMs for semantic evasion with corresponding resea