VP, Creative Strategy

The VP, Creative Strategy is responsible for driving Gartner’s creative strategy across all internal communications, external enterprise communications and corporate brand strategy. The VP will lead and inspire a high-performing team, including video production, motion and graphic design and brand, ensuring world-class creative output, continuous innovation, and a strong, unified brand presence.

Responsibilities:

Creative Leadership & Strategy:

• Set and execute the creative strategy for internal communications and external enterprise communications, aligning with Gartner’s business objectives and brand vision.

• Continuously improve the creativity, quality and performance of video production, leading a high-performing team of producers, editors and motion graphics professionals.

• Continuously improve the creativity, quality and performance of corporate communications assets, including executive presentations, external reports, brand deliverables, etc, leading a highly valued team of designers.

Brand Stewardship:

• Lead the development, implementation, and coordination of corporate brand guidelines across all internal and external assets, partnering with key stakeholders including Marketing, Business & Technology Insights, Global Product Management, Legal, and others.

• Ensure the rollout and adoption of visual identity systems and brand messaging, partnering with key internal stakeholders.

• Continuously assess and articulate the strategic value of brand health, leveraging data and analytics to inform decisions and demonstrate impact.

Operational Excellence & Innovation:

• Establish and cascade production approaches and creative standards, ensuring all deliverables are on-brand, high-quality, and efficiently produced.

• Identify, pilot, and implement technology-enabled solutions, including AI, to further increase the efficiency and productivity of the team while improving the quality of deliverables.

• Oversee complex, multi-channel productions and manage relationships with key internal stakeholders and external partners.

Team Leadership & Talent Development:

• Set business objectives for the creative team and hold accountability for delivering measurable outcomes.

• Lead, mentor, and develop direct reports (Head of Video Production, Associate Creative Director, Sr Director, Brand) and their respective teams, fostering a highly creative, collaborative, positive, and inclusive working environment where colleagues can achieve professional and personal success.

• Build and maintain a talented, highly engaged team with the skills and capacity to deliver best-in-class creative solutions.

Budget & Resource Management:

• Own and manage the creative function’s budget, ensuring optimal allocation of resources and proactive cost management.

• Partner closely with the Corporate Communications Ops team to effectively allocate resources to critical creative

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Communications, Marketing, Fine Arts, or a related field.

• 12+ years of progressive experience in creative leadership, brand strategy, or corporate communications, with a proven track record of leading high-performing, multidisciplinary teams.

• Demonstrated expertise in video production, design, digital asset management, and creative operations.

• Experience implementing technology-enabled solutions, including AI, to drive creative innovation and efficiency.

• Strong business acumen with experience in budget ownership and resource management.

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills; able to influence at all levels of the organization, including C-suite.

• Deep understanding of brand strategy, visual identity systems, and associate engagement best practices.

• Commitment to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion within creative teams and across the organization.

Who You Are:

• Visionary creative leader and strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

• Collaborative influencer who excels at building relationships and driving alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.

• Inspirational people leader who develops talent, builds strong teams, and creates an inclusive, high-performance culture.

• Results-driven professional who sets clear objectives, owns outcomes, and delivers measurable business impact.

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 164,000 USD - 226,000 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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