Director, Content Strategy

Gartner Peer Community is a platform for the world’s most influential network of business leaders to share Q&A posts, polls, and altogether interact with each other in an environment that prioritizes the discussion of key issues and critical business decisions. This is a unique opportunity for a systematic, creative, and motivated individual to make a big impact by growing, strengthening relationships, and driving constructive engagement as part of the Gartner Peer Community group.
 

We’re looking for an experienced Director of Digital Content, to lead the team responsible for all aspects of peer generated content for global technology roles (i.e. CIO/IT Leadership, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data & Analytics). This person will be an expert in establishing topics of focus, an optimized publishing calendar, driving improved processes, defining and monitoring data-driven measurement of content quality, as well as driving new content innovations that are compliant and above-all highly valued by our executive audience.

This role focuses on:

• Define department wide content calendars, topic coverage, SEO strategy, target audience, value alignment, production processes and report methodology
• Evaluate, set, and maintain content operations by defining processes, creating workflows, and introducing efficiencies
• Ability to synthesize multiple information streams (internal research, external media, industry groups, etc.) to create impactful content that serves multiple audiences’ needs
• Keeps a pulse on trends and hot topics for leaders, as well as expertly sourcing and mining feedback to address these issues
• Ability to identify and promote quality content traits, enjoys training new team members, and pushes their team to maintain and surpass high standards
• Set and monitors both team-wide and individual objectives in line with the framework of Gartner Peer Community’s strategic goals
• Evangelize Gartner Peer Community’s technology content and its unique value both internally and externally

This role is a great fit for you if you have:

• 12+ years of combined leadership, journalism, and/or content related work within the technology industry and targeted at an executive-level audience
• Experience managing teams with a scope of both direct and indirect reports
• An established following, industry presence, and portfolio of content work
• Experience either growing a following from zero, or hyper-accelerating the scale of an existing network through a content-led approach
• Deep understanding of the mission-critical priorities and day-to-day challenges of IT leadership
• Knowledge and willingness to implement processes to improve time to production, leveraging project management or CRM software, as well as homegrown solutions
• Are a great communicator, confident, personable, and comfortable working with internal teams and proactively with external community members
• Extremely well organized, have a high attention to detail, and love creating systems that make everyone’s lives easier
• Have a proven ability to thrive in a highly cross-functional, start-up and fast-paced environment, dealing with ambiguity and being a self-starter
• You take ownership of your work, are accountable for team results, and are able to prioritize strategically

About the team: 

What makes Gartner's Global Product Management a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you’ll be part of a team with a no-limits mindset that develops new, transformational products using technology-based innovations. Gartner delivers tools and actionable insights which help our clients shape the future of their organizations. Our leading-edge team values collaboration, client obsession, and an entrepreneurial spirit. If you're ready to fuel the future of business with creative technology solutions, Gartner is the place for you.

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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 insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities.

Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 20,000 associates globally who support ~15,000 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.

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Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. 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.

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 116,000 USD - 164,000 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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