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 Analyst serves as an insights leader within Gartner’s Business & Technology Insights practice, and has a credible voice within the global market. Senior Director Analyst produces pragmatic and provocative insights to propel Gartner clients toward their key business objectives. Analysts are a trusted source of advice for clients, engaging with them via virtual meetings, sales support visits and Gartner events to discuss complex client challenges and offer actionable solutions. As part of Gartner’s Corporate Assurance Practice, you will join a dynamic team focused on advising General Counsel, legal operations leaders, and other legal and compliance leaders on leading and emerging technologies, vendors, market trends, and best practices related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This role will significantly expand coverage for the practice, and we are seeking an entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and ideas-driven individual to regularly produce published insights and meet with general counsel and other legal leaders to advise on their Artificial Intelligence-related questions and challenges. If you’ve spent a good part of your career working in or alongside in-house legal departments and have exposure to how those teams are getting value from AI investments in key department workflows, then this expert role could be for you. Career experience with the development and deployment of AI-related projects within the legal function will be valuable, as will deep familiarity with specific legal department workflows – including contracts management, workload intake and triage, outside counsel management, etc.-- and collaboration with leaders in other corporate functions such as IT, Data, Finance, etc. The successful candidate will be comfortable discussing and researching topics including: • Legal’s AI vision, strategy, maturity and roadmap • Legal department AI use case selection and implementation from pilot to production and scale • Legal AI technology landscape and developments, including vendors and emerging capabilities (e.g., the rise of agentic AI opportunities for Legal) • Legal AI oversight and governance strategies • Legal AI economics, including measures of cost, value and risk What you will 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, such as: • Legal department AI use cases that draw on a range of traditional, generative and agentic AI techniques; • Setting up AI pilots and scaling initiatives; • Ensuring proper governance of legal department AI tools; • Navigating the legal AI vendor landscape; • Connecting AI to legal department processes and overall department transformation efforts; • Understanding and measuring the ROI of legal department AI investments; and • 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 related to 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. • Being 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 you will need: • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience • 12+ years of