Legal AI & Technology Strategy Expert Sr Director, Analyst, Fully Remote UK or - Gartner

About the role:

Gartner Analysts are industry thought leaders who create must-have insights, market predictions and best practices for a broad range of world-leading organizations. A Senior Director Analyst serves as an insights leader within Gartner ’s Business & Technology Insights practice, and has a credible voice within the global market. Senior Director Analyst produces pragmatic and provocative insights to propel Gartner clients toward their key business objectives. Analysts are a trusted source of advice for clients, engaging with them via virtual meetings, sales support visits and Gartner events to discuss complex client challenges and offer actionable solutions.

As part of Gartner ’s Corporate Assurance Practice, you will join a dynamic team focused on advising General Counsel, legal operations leaders, and other legal and compliance leaders on leading and emerging technologies, vendors, market trends, and best practices related to Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This role will significantly expand coverage for the practice, and we are seeking an entrepreneurial, self-motivated, and ideas-driven individual to regularly produce published insights and meet with general counsel and other legal leaders to advise on their Artificial Intelligence-related questions and challenges.

If you’ve spent a good part of your career working in or alongside in-house legal departments and have exposure to how those teams are getting value from AI investments in key department workflows, then this expert role could be for you.

Career experience with the development and deployment of AI-related projects within the legal function will be valuable, as will deep familiarity with specific legal department workflows – including contracts management, workload intake and triage, outside counsel management, etc.-- and collaboration with leaders in other corporate functions such as IT, Data, Finance, etc. The successful candidate will be comfortable discussing and researching topics including:

Legal’s AI vision, strategy, maturity and roadmap

Legal department AI use case selection and implementation from pilot to production and scale

Legal AI technology landscape and developments, including vendors and emerging capabilities (e.g., the rise of agentic AI opportunities for Legal)

Legal AI oversight and governance strategies

Legal AI economics, including measures of cost, value and risk

What you will do:

Create unique, defensible and highly consumable written business and technology insights that directly address the AI priorities and opportunities of general counsel and other legal department leaders.

Serve as a leading authority on legal department AI topics, such as:

Legal department AI use cases that draw on a range of traditional, generative and agentic AI techniques;

Setting up AI pilots and scaling initiatives;

Ensuring proper govern