Sr Director Analyst - Data Center Compute & Edge (Remote - North America)

Analyst – Data Center Compute & Edge (Remote - North America)

Gartner analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have research and provide guidance to world-leading organizations. Analysts identify gaps, challenges, and solutions within their markets, helping clients make informed decisions aligned to their top business priorities.

As an analyst, you translate Gartner’s research, best practices, and tools into meaningful insights for clients. Your work spans pragmatic research that solves today’s challenges and provocative research that reshapes assumptions about the future of compute infrastructure.

This role requires expertise in server virtualization, server modernization, edge computing, hyper-converged infrastructure, distributed hybrid infrastructure.

What You Will Do

·       Research, analyze, and forecast market trends to provide actionable insights to end‑user organizations and vendors.

·       Stay ahead of developments across core and adjacent emerging technology areas.

·       Collaboratively write and publish evidence‑based research and analysis.

·       Communicate complex concepts clearly and authoritatively to senior‑level executives.

·       Present at conferences as an industry expert.

·       Partner with sales and service teams to support account growth, retention, and engagement.

What You Will Need

·       Bachelor’s degree.

·       10+ years of industry experience with a focus on core data center technologies in leading‑edge organizations.

·       Experience presenting technology and business adoption scenarios to senior IT leaders.

·       Deep expertise in one or more of the following: edge computing, server virtualization technologies.

·       Knowledge of major and emerging vendors with the potential to disrupt the market.

·       Technical understanding of supercomputing approaches.

Who We Are

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT), we guide leaders who shape the world. Our mission is built on expert analysis and bold ideas that deliver objective insight to help enterprises achieve their mission‑critical priorities.

Since 1979, we have grown to more than 20,000 associates supporting ~15,000 client enterprises across ~90 countries. We hire individuals with intellectual curiosity, drive, and a desire to make meaningful impact.

What Makes Gartner a Great Place to Work

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for personal and professional growth. We operate in a vast, rapidly expanding market, offering long‑term career potential.

We value collaboration and inclusivity across geographies, cultures, and backgrounds. We invest in leaders who amplify impact and elevate teams, which is why Gartner consistently earns recognition as a great place to work.

What We Offer

We provide world‑class benefits, competitive compensation, and exceptional rewards for top performers. Our hybrid environment supports flexibility, virtual productivity, and meaningful in‑person collaboration.

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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.

Gartner believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 172,000 USD - 202,500 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more.

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