Director, Product Management - Interconnection

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

At Equinix, we help the world’s digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences, and transform people’s lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. 

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

The Equinix Global Interconnection team is looking for a proven, results-oriented and innovative Product Line Leader to help drive our Interconnection business, which is growing ~10% per year. The right candidate for our team is a hands-on product leader that has shown success with enterprise product strategy, definition and development throughout the product lifecycle and customer adoption journey. This person will work closely with the product management, sales/GTM, operations, and other cross functional stakeholders in building the next generation interconnection to enable the interconnection products and services. They will prioritize and execute the interconnection roadmap with internal stakeholders and evangelizes product capabilities internally and externally. Lead, design, and execute on our product strategy on Equinix interconnection products and services.

Responsibilities

• Drive innovation among the teams, recognize innovation, and help communicate new ideas across teams in multiple global locations
• Support the success of direct customers, resellers, and partners in consumption of the interconnection product
• Lead necessary business simplification and enhancements to support interconnection products
• Provide operational excellence in interconnection product reliability and availability for the interconnection products and services
• Responsible for monitoring the market and internal stakeholder input to set the product vision and strategy and ensure overall growth and profitability of interconnection product
• Ensure interconnection product development processes are scalable, secure, agile, fit for purpose and continue to evolve as technology changes
• Leads a business process optimization team and business insights team within the Interconnection team
• Define the expected financial, operational and customer experience performance of the platform and product lines and ensure performance against these expectations:
• Responsible for figuring out how we care for lifecycle management of shared cross product capabilities to create a consistent/coherent end user experience for both direct and indirect customer experiences and ensure efficient interconnection product development
• Strategically evaluate and drive alignment and decision making around new technology working in collaboration across product management, architecture, operations, CTO, and CIO organization.
• Prioritizes and executes the roadmap with internal stakeholders and evangelizes product capabilities internally and externally Lead, design, and execute on our product strategy on Equinix interconnection products and services
• Drive profitability and growth of a $1B global product line related to physical interconnection

Financial

• Monitor financial performance to ensure revenue and costs align to expected results

Operational

• Ensure products are being delivered and are performing within defined operational expectations

Customer Experience

• Monitor, systematically assess, improve and simplify the overall customer and sales experience at both the platform and product line levels

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience at a high growth tech company or technology-focused enterprise in product engineering leading large global software development teams
• Demonstrated experience building a thriving culture aligned to Equinix values
• Proven execution in cross-functional management in a matrixed environment
• Strong General management and product management experience
• Master’s degree in Product Management, Business, or Technology area preferred
• Executive presence and demonstrated success building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing and collaborating in cross-functional environments

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