Gartner

Sr. Product Director - BuySmart

Gartner$136K — $189K *
Enterprise Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12-15 years of experience as a digital product owner, focusing on large-scale SaaS applications or technology platforms
  • 6-10 years of direct management experience leading product managers
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to create multi-year product roadmaps and manage backlogs
  • Strong skills in user experience design and critical problem-solving
  • Effective leadership and stakeholder management skills for translating project details
  • Excellent organizational and project management capabilities, meeting tight deadlines

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of product managers overseeing Gartner's digital product suite
  • Collaborate with global stakeholders including leadership and engineering to create impactful products
  • Develop and communicate a cohesive product vision and strategy across product areas
  • Conduct concept sprints to establish product roadmaps aligned with strategic goals
  • Prioritize product portfolio balancing customer needs with business objectives
  • Leverage customer insights and market trends to guide strategic product decisions
  • Engage with executive stakeholders to promote product vision and achieve organizational alignment

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off policy
  • Charity match program
  • Group Medical Insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity
  • Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities
Full Job Description
About the role:

We are looking for Sr. Director, Digital Product Management to lead a group of product managers, business associates, and partner with the engineering team to build and improve Gartner's digital platforms. The leader will focus on driving adoptions and client experience for the BuySmart product, while taking a broader lens to integrate various assets into a cohesive, connected technology buying journey for clients.

The ideal candidate is someone who has extreme ownership of the product success, demonstrates innate curiosity and drive to help clients solve their most critical buying decisions through our product platforms. In this role, you will set the product's vision, drive execution, and develop the team while influencing cross-functional stakeholders towards the one vision.

What you will do:
  • Lead and mentor a team of product managers owning an area of Gartner's digital suite of products for clients
  • Partner with global stakeholders, including senior Gartner leaders, software engineers, product design, data science and more to deliver high value products to our clients
  • Drive the overarching product/tool vision and strategy across multiple product areas to support business objectives
  • Participate in and lead concept sprints to build a product roadmap, defining critical features/functions in line with core strategy and objectives
  • Drive portfolio prioritization, balance customer needs, business value, and technical investment
  • Use customer insights, market trends, and data to identify opportunities to inform strategic decisions.
  • Influence executive stakeholders, communicate product vision, and drive alignment across the organization.


What you will need:
  • 12-15 years' experience working as a digital product owner with strong product mindset, ideally working on large-scale SaaS applications, enterprise software or technology platforms, with 6-10 years' experience directly managing product managers
  • Bachelor's degree required, MBA preferred
  • Proven experience defining product strategy, setting vision and delivering
    multi-year roadmaps, managing and prioritizing backlog
  • Strong focus on driving a great user experience through critical-thinking, problem-solving and collaborative solutioning
  • Define and improve on key performance metrics for the product, and contributions towards the broader digital platform
  • Strong people leadership, communications and stakeholder management skills; translate messy project dynamics into clear updates for executives and individual contributors alike, and build trust quickly with PMs, engineers, designers, and business partners
  • Outstanding organizational and project management skills with ability to meet tight deadlines, managing dependencies and competing priorities without losing momentum
  • Experiment and innovate with new tooling (e.g., AI) to drive and scale product management best practices to the team


What you will get:
  • Competitive salary, generous paid time off policy, charity match program, Group Medical Insurance, Parental Leave, Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and more!
  • Collaborative, team-oriented culture that embraces diversity
  • Professional development and unlimited growth opportunities


#LI-CW4

Job Requisition ID:112309

For efficient navigation through the application, please only use the back button within the application, not the back arrow within your browser.

About Gartner

Gartner, Inc. is a research and advisory company that provides information, advice, and tools for leaders in IT, finance, HR, customer service and support, legal and compliance, marketing, sales, and supply chain functions. The company operates in more than 100 countries and has over 16,000 employees. Gartner was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
Learn more about Gartner
Size
16,600 employees
Market Cap
$26.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$266.7 million
Founded
1979
5 Year Trend
+14.1%
Revenue
$4 billion
NASDAQ

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Gartner

More Enterprise Technology Jobs

Find similar Sr. Product Director - BuySmart jobs: