Vice President, Team Manager (VPTM) Gartner Research Board CIO Research

About this role

Gartner Research Board (GRB) is Gartner's communityguided product for senior enduser technology executives in the Global 400. Through a trusted global peer community, proprietary research, and expertfacilitated engagement, GRB helps technology executives cut through noise, anticipate disruption, and make better decisions faster with less risk.

As Vice President, Team Manager, GRB CIO Research, you lead the research agenda and co-lead, with the CIO Executive Community Leader and CIO Program Director Leadership, the executive engagement experience for Gartner Research Board's Global and Divisional CIO members. You manage a team of analysts who partner with the world's largest organizations' CIOs to tackle their most critical leadership, business, and technology challenges-and translate those conversations into insight CIOs act on.

This role combines people leadership, shared agenda ownership, and direct engagement with one of Gartner's most influential executive communities. You set direction, define standards of excellence, and ensure the consistent delivery of highquality research and meetings across regions. As a visible leader with strong executive presence, you represent the team with Global and Divisional CIOs and work across Gartner to shape a distinctive, highimpact CIO member experience.

What you'll do

• Lead and develop the GRB CIO Research team

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of analysts, setting clear expectations for quality, delivery, and professional growth.

  • Build a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across research development and CIO engagement.

  • Act as a senior escalation point and thought partner for CIO content delivery.

• Co-own GRB CIO research and meeting agenda

  • In collaboration with the CIO Executive Community Leader and Program Director Leadership, set and evolve the CIO research and meeting agenda to reflect CIO priorities, emerging business and technology trends, and Gartner's point of view.

  • Guide and oversee the development of analytically rigorous, actionable GRB CIO research reports delivered on time.

  • Lead the planning and execution of three global CIO meeting cycles per year, including discussion design, speaker strategy, and experience quality.

• Lead communitydriven topic selection

  • Design and lead the CIO topic ballot process twice per year, from topic development through analysis and selection.

  • Partner with the CIO Executive Community Leader, BTI's CIO & Emerging Technology and Trends teams, and Global Enterprise Service Delivery to ensure strong alignment to member needs and Gartner priorities.

• Represent GRB CIO Research internally and externally

  • Serve as a senior representative of GRB CIO Research with CIO members, service delivery leaders, sales partners, and internal stakeholders.

  • Build relationships with key external contributors, including major software vendors, investors, and academics.

  • Collaborate across Gartner to connect research, delivery, and commercial teams in support of business and member outcomes.

What you'll need

• We are open to applications from interested parties that are in NYC /CT or across other US locations.

• Leadership and management capability

  • Proven experience leading, hiring, and developing highperforming teams, with the ability to coach senior professionals to consistently deliver at a high standard.

  • Track record as a people leader who sets clear expectations, provides direct feedback, and builds durable cultures of accountability and trust.

  • Demonstrated success operating in complex, matrixed environments and aligning diverse stakeholders around shared priorities.

• Senior executive presence and CIO engagement

  • Documented excellence delivering to and facilitating discussions among Global and largeenterprise executives.

  • Credibility and presence to represent the team with CIO members, lead executive conversations, and respond effectively to seniorlevel challenges.

  • Strong relationshipbuilding skills and experience earning trust with senior internal and external stakeholders.

• Research, content, and problemsolving expertise

  • Strong primary and secondary research background, with experience producing or overseeing insightdriven content.

  • Sound editorial judgment, including the ability to evaluate and elevate analytical rigor, narrative structure, and writing quality.

  • Business problemsolving capability, including diagnosing root causes, developing practical solutions, and driving execution through others.

• Professional foundation

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • Typically 10+ years of professional experience, including significant responsibility for executive engagement, content leadership, and crossorganizational collaboration.

  • Formal facilitation experience.

  • Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and reasoning skills.

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.

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