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About the role : As a Sr Director of Product Design, you will lead a team of Product Designers focused on delivering best user-centred experiences. While collaborating with key engineering and business partners, you will define and drive exceptional user-experience design deliverables across products and initiatives. The Sr Director will lead and manage all aspects of talent development, tactical, strategic design direction, and concepts. This role focuses on tactically providing the best user experience along with leading talents. What you will do : Lead a growing team of Product Designers across different products. Strong experience in user experience and leading those efforts. Instil a culture of learning, research, and Design Thinking across the full end-to-end customer journey. Drive ideas, solutions, and products execution Adopt a solutions-centric mindset and have a user-centric focus on experiences. Nurture a positive, creative, and inclusive atmosphere that encourages collaboration with constructive and respectful feedback. Inspire, motivate, and lead the UX team to create elegant solutions that are coveted by end-users. Evangelize user experience methodologies and best practices. Ability to speak to technical constraints, experimentation, product, brand, business, and strategy — connecting across disciplines to cultivate collaboration between teams. What you will need: Overall 12+ years of work experience in a product/ distributed environment out of which 8+ years of experience in the design industry in and around various product design fields (user experience/interaction design, visual design, and research) and 4+ years of experience managing product designers. A bachelor’s degree in design, UX/UI design, human-computer interaction, or related field Experience working with cross functional teams & overseas stakeholders. Experience of working relationship with inter-geographic areas. Experience of working on SAAS products & with product companies. Experience designing with accessibility in mind. Experience leading and directing cross-functional and multi-geographic teams. 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 insight, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities. Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to more than 21,000 associates globally who support ~14,000 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 sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. 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 . 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. The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity. Gartner is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. 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