Host and Editorial Director, Business Insights

Role Summary 

Strategic leader to reimagine the content delivery, taking key insights and designing to meet the client in the ever-changing digital environment.  In addition, we are seeking a dynamic, credible, and highly engaging Host for a daily externally facing podcast serving CIOs, technology executives, and leaders navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape. 

This individual will become the face, voice, and personality of the program, translating the depth and breadth of Gartner’s insights and analyst expertise into timely, accessible, compelling conversations for an executive audience. 

The Host will not be expected to be the definitive subject-matter expert on every topic. Instead, they will serve as the connective tissue between our analysts and our audience, drawing upon the insights, perspectives, and expertise of analysts across the organization to identify what matters, explain why it matters, and help executives understand what they should be thinking about next. 

The ideal candidate combines the instincts of a journalist, interviewer, storyteller, curator, and executive communicator. They are intellectually curious, comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment, confident engaging with highly credible experts, and able to establish a distinctive on-air personality that builds audience trust and loyalty over time. 

Core Responsibilities 

• Serve as the Face and Voice of the Podcast 

• Host a high-quality reoccurring podcast designed primarily for CIOs and senior technology executives, with significant focus on AI and the rapidly changing technology landscape. 

• Develop a recognizable and trusted on-air personality that makes complex topics engaging, understandable, and relevant to an executive audience. 

• Establish continuity across episodes so the podcast feels like a consistent editorial destination rather than a collection of individual analyst interviews. 

• Build an authentic relationship with the audience and ultimately become a recognizable external representative of the organization's technology insights. 

• Curate and Deliver Across Four Editorial Pillars 

• The Host will work with analysts, research leaders, and editorial partners to deliver programming across four primary areas: Event Driven | What's Happening Now; Top Insights | What We're Thinking; Client Perspective | What Leaders Are Asking; Market Positions | How the Market Is Moving 

• Lead Compelling Conversations 

• Interview analysts and other experts across a wide range of AI, technology, vendor, market, and other strong positions. 

• Draw out the most interesting and differentiated insights from subject-matter experts. 

• Challenge analysts constructively when appropriate, asking the questions an informed CIO would ask. 

• Exercise Strong Editorial Judgment 

• Work with editorial and research stakeholders to determine what deserves the audience's attention each day. 

• Monitor emerging topics and quickly determine when developments warrant podcast coverage. 

• Prioritize topics based on timeliness, executive relevance, differentiation, and potential audience value. 

• Build Audience Engagement and Franchise Value 

• Help establish the podcast as a must-listen daily destination for CIOs and technology executives. 

• Partner with production, communications, social, and marketing teams to extend podcast conversations across channels. 

• Use audience feedback and performance data to continually evolve the program, its format, and its editorial mix. 

 

Candidate Profile 

• Exceptional verbal communication, interviewing, and storytelling skills.  Comfortable expressing personality, perspective, curiosity, and appropriate skepticism on air. 

• Strong executive presence and the ability to establish credibility with CIOs, senior technology leaders, and highly experienced analysts. 

• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity and genuine enthusiasm for technology, AI, business, and markets. 

• Ability to quickly absorb complicated research and turn it into clear, engaging conversations. 

• Able to work at the pace required by a daily, event-driven publishing model. 

 

Relevant Background 

• 20+ years prior business experience  

• Prior Gartner analyst experience preferred; experience in broadcast or podcast hosting; executive interviewing/discussions 

• Experience working directly with AI, enterprise technology, business strategy, markets, or technology research is valuable. However, deep expertise in every technology domain is not required. More important is the ability to learn rapidly, prepare rigorously, identify differentiated insights, ask incisive questions, and make complex ideas useful to senior executives.  

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 208,000 USD - 261,000 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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