Manager, Editing (Studio)

Title: Manager, Editing (Studio)

About the role:

You're an empathetic people leader with a proven record of leading teams in a fast-paced, global environment. You have an eye for innovating towards agility, efficiency, and scalability, while embracing editorial standards and high-quality writing. You view change as an opportunity to evolve and innovate, and you excel at bringing people along as you drive to consensus.

At Gartner, you'll join the Studio leadership team as you oversee and develop a team of 7-9 editors. Your team will primarily work on conference presentation editing, which involves ensuring the slides are error-free. In addition, your team supports content that is delivered to the website, with a focus on error-free and consumability. Your team will partner with authors to produce research that provides strategic and actionable advice for top executives. Your team helps authors simplify complex topics into an easily digestible format and guide them with an eye toward writing best practices and style. Your leadership, expertise and coaching will be instrumental in creating Gartner’s high-quality, insights-driven research.

What you will do:

• Lead and develop a global team of 7-9 editors and associate editors with varied tenures and backgrounds.
• Motivate, coach, facilitate solutions to work problems, address people-related issues, and be actively involved in the day-to-day activities of the team.
• Create an environment that fosters teamwork, collaboration, open communication, creative thinking, cohesive team effort and workplace integrity (including diversity, equity and inclusion).
• Understand production processes so you can identify areas for production optimization and scale for growth.
• Develop your Gartner business acumen and ensure team members understand how their actions affect the Gartner business, too.
• Provide ongoing feedback to associates about their work and continuously coach them to improve their editing/writing skill sets.
• Track and report on team and department productivity/efficiency and capacity, helping your team balance multiple priorities and successfully adjust/reprioritize resources as required to meet business needs.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with stakeholders, direct reports and peer groups across the business.
• Serve as a thought partner to the leadership team. Help shape our strategy by identifying and driving innovations in line with the goals of the team and the company.
• Drive Gartner’s commitment to DE&I throughout all aspects of the business: hiring practices, associate development, client service and community support.

What you will need:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in literature or relevant discipline.
• 7+ years of work experience in editing, writing, journalism, communications or a similar field
• 2+ years’ experience leading/managing teams and/or developing high-performing individuals and teams. Ideal candidate has experience leading remote or hybrid teams, specifically
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment that required extensive global stakeholder communication and management, coordination of multiple projects, and process/system innovation and optimization
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills, including presenting to and facilitating conversations with internal and external professionals at all levels
• Ability to thrive under pressure by confidently prioritizing the critical few goals from ambiguous/uncertain circumstances, allowing you to role model work-life balance for your team
• Strong time management, planning and organization skills
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Google Workspace

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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.

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