Sr Director Analyst - Data Security Product Manager (Remote North America)

About The Role

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have research, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Senior Director is a leader in Gartner’s Research and Advisory sector, establishing oneself as a credible voice within their designated regional and global markets. The Senior Director plays a significant role in producing pragmatic and provocative research which Gartner clients consume to propel their business toward key objectives. They are a trusted source of advice for clients, reinforcing Gartner’s value every day by engaging clients via virtual meetings, sales support visits and Gartner conferences to discuss complex client challenges and offer appropriate recommendations.

This Analyst is primarily responsible for advising Gartner High Tech clients in Technology Product Leadership Roles, applying your experience working for large or global technology providers managing data security software products.

You will identify key opportunities for our high-tech security clients to differentiate their data security offers, compete against established and emerging players and grow security software revenue. You will articulate strategies to exploit emerging market and competitive dynamics that can drive market share growth. You will leverage available primary and secondary data sources and collaborate with peer analysts to deliver high impact, world-class research insights and advice. Finally, you will also advise high-tech clients at-large regarding how to effectively secure data as part of their offers. Your advice will be consistently delivered through published research, 1:1 client inquiry, virtual and in-person presentations and local briefings.

This Senior Director will demonstrate strong product management experience with software products within the range of data security topics:

• Data security governance (policy, risk, access, classification)

• Enterprise data security (access, encryption, mobile apps, DLP, secure email gateway)

• Cloud-native data security (access, activity monitoring, encryption, key management, cloud-native DLP, data masking)

• Secure data sharing (file encryption, digital rights, key management)

• Transmission security (TLS, DoH, DoT)

• Security service edge (CASB, ZTNA, SWG)

• Data security platforms (structured discovery and classification, access, activity monitoring, data masking, tokenization, encryption)

• Data security posture management (policy and posture alignment, data map and pipeline analysis, risk identification)

• Privacy-enhancing computation (trusted execution environment, searchable encryption, secure multiparty computation, differential privacy, homomorphic encryption)

Please note this is an individual contributor role and NOT a leadership role with direct reports.

What You Will Do

The following items are specific to data security markets:

• Create innovative, thought provoking, and highly leveraged “must-have research” for global technology provider …