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Clifton Gilley - VP Research Analyst, Gartner for Tech CEOs in Remote, USA

Clifton Gilley

Executive product leader specializing in product management and Agile transformation

GartnerSeattle University School of LawRemote, USA25 Years ExperienceExecutive Level

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Veteran product leader with roughly 20 years of experience spanning legal tech, higher education, and enterprise software, including early AI/ML applications in e-discovery at massive scale. Unusually combines product leadership with a background in law, psychology, and sociology, giving him strong domain empathy and a human-centered approach to UX, AI, and organizational transformation.

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Key Strengths

  • 20 years of product leadership across legal, education, and enterprise software
  • Led full front-end rebuild after Silverlight EOL while coordinating a microservices upgrade
  • Shipped MVP in 3 months and near-full release 3 months later under major platform disruption
  • Strong roadmap discipline using Now/Next/Later and team-level top-3 priorities
  • Deep cross-functional alignment with engineering, architecture, design, sales, marketing, and services
  • Early AI/ML product experience in e-discovery at massive text scale
  • Translates complex AI capabilities into defensible, user-friendly workflows for attorneys
  • Human-centered UX judgment that improved adoption and usability
  • Willingness to challenge poor design decisions using testing and expert input
  • Transformed a product org from spreadsheet-driven planning to true Agile execution
  • Improved release cadence from 12-16 months to under 3 months
  • Skilled at navigating organizational conflict and aligning competing business units
  • Strong mentor who developed a services teammate into a product leader and later startup founder
  • Domain fluency in law and social sciences that informs product strategy

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Experience

VP Research Analyst, Gartner for Tech CEOsGartner · Jan 2025 – Present
VP Research Analyst, Gartner for Product TeamsGartner · Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
Sr. Director RA, Gartner for Product TeamsGartner · Jan 2018 – Jan 2022
Sr. Product Manager & Scrum/Agile CoachK2 Technology · Nov 2014 – Nov 2018
Blogger & Alter-EgoThe Clever PM · Oct 2014 – Nov 2018freelance
Director, Product MarketingDiscoverReady · May 2013 – Jul 2014
Board Member/PresidentSnoqualmie Ridge Residential Owners Association
Board Member/Chair/AdvisorPacific Northwest Product Management Community
Chapter President / Section ChairAlpha Phi Omega
Judge Pro TemKing County District Court
Deputy Prosecutor (Intern)King County Prosecuting Attorney's Officeinternship

Education

Seattle University School of Lawdoctorate, Law
University of Washingtonbachelor, Psychology and Sociology

Awards

  • Juris Doctor, cum laude - Seattle University School of Law

Skills

Product ManagementAgileScrumRelease ManagementSaaSMarket ResearchPredictive modelingProduct LeadershipAgile CoachingProduct Management Maturity AssessmentBenchmarkingResearchResearch Note WritingPublic SpeakingConference Speaking

Languages

English

Publications

10 publications

Product ManagementProduct Leadership

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Clifton GilleyExecutive product leader specializing in product management and Agile transformation