MVP, Product Management

This is a unique opportunity to make an impact on Gartner’s core business of providing insights to CIOs and top technology executives. We are looking for a bold, creative product leader who can drive the Product Management for our flagship research business and be responsible for innovating our CIO-focused subscription products by leveraging our comprehensive sources of value including insights, tools, experiences and interactions to address the needs of CIOs and senior-most technology leaders.

The Managing Vice President (MVP) will be a critical member of the Global Product Management leadership team and should have a passion for building products that deliver high value to target clients across a range of industries, solving hard problems, and prioritizing efforts to maximize client value. This leader must be passionate about delivering value to clients and will be responsible for product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including understanding the client role, quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify and prioritize innovations, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, implementing and launching solutions and new products, and tracking progress and impact.

The MVP will be responsible for product innovation and portfolio management for our CIO products and will need to apply lean product principles to new product features and sources of client value.

As a leader in our organization, it is important that the MVP consistently exhibits all aspects of the Gartner culture which is based on 5 core values.

Integrity:
Do the right thing.

Objectivity:
Be independent and unbiased in everything we do.

No-limits mindset:
See opportunities where others don’t; never settle for the status quo.

Collaboration:

Work together in teams to accomplish more than what is possible individually. Results:
Execute consistently using global best practices.

This leader will be responsible for variety of contributions including:

• Owning Product Strategy for the CIO role, including: strategy development, business case or policy development, product build & launch for innovations and implementation
• Driving business results for the CIO role, our largest and most strategic client role, including growth in contract value, clients, new business and retention
• Incubating pilot products, including identifying & analyzing key business metrics to uncover reasons for success, reasons for obstacles and deliver needed enhancement
• Leads strategic project management, via the team, through Product concept through to launch. Ensuring continued impact and tracking progress of metrics post-launch
• The ability to prioritize areas of utmost impact and value for CIO, End User and beyond; presented with meaningful imperatives and data from a wide range of sources. Identify and organize clear, concise actions with growth mentality and being able to build, measure and learn.
• Demonstrate thought leadership on the CIO role to influence executive leadership to take actions to meet client needs and capture market opportunity, and to drive long-term growth and strategic impact
• Executive level presentation of Product strategy, roadmap, launch updates to our executive teams, including our CEO, Operating Committee members, and other senior leaders and cross-functional partners. This will include leading brainstorming & collaborative problem-solving sessions with our Insights, Service delivery, Sales and other teams to finalize product concept, features/functionality and successfully implement products and experiences.
• Building high performing product teams that work collaboratively and make an impact for the organization and across Team NCVI

The ideal candidate will have;

• Minimum of 15 years of experience in product management leadership;
  Preferred:
  Product Management experience in a B2B environment, serving technology executives, and/or in an insights subscription business

• Strong leadership and team management experience, leading senior level associates (Sr Director +)

• Strong domain expertise in the top priorities of CIOs and top technology executives

• Experience in a professional services function (e.g., management consulting) serving senior technology executives a plus

• Experience in an insights subscription business a plus

• Strong understanding of product management best practices and product lifecycle

• Passionate about technology and ability to work with engineering, customer…