Vice President It Transformation & Business Operations, Office Of The Cio

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 248+ 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.

We are a fast-growing global company with 20 years of continuous growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents – and counting! 

A leadership role at Equinix means you will drive and collaborate on work that impacts the world. 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. 

The Role

With Equinix's focus on digital transformation across the company globally, we are seeking an exceptional VP IT Transformation and Business Operations for the Office of the CIO (OCIO) to

• Operationalize execution on the IT strategy within IT and across the company to support the company’s Future of Platform strategy ensuring strategic outcomes are met
• Lead strategic and critical initiatives for transformation of IT capabilities – Projects to Product Operating Model, Scaled Agile, Developer Experience, IT Sustainability
• Drive the Platform IT strategy in alignment with CIO and business priorities

Reporting to the EVP & Global CIO, we’re seeking a high-caliber IT business operations leader with strong capabilities who can lead this transformation by creating evolved focus on IT operating mechanisms, IT transformation programs for improved user experiences and overall IT organization maturity as we continue to scale globally.

The leader will be a key partner with executives within IT working with them to create strategy and operating mechanisms that enable us to build capabilities and function as a coordinated and optimized system that delivers value for our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Align and interlocks with key stakeholders across the organization to monitor and manage capital efficiency and capital management, drive alignment and collaboration of key strategic priorities, including potential M&A activity, and ensure focus on the most strategic projects
• Lead an Agile PMO function to drive best in class project management capabilities including strong cross functional alignment, defining and measuring project outcomes and execution, and managing budget and risks.
• Drive the IT Transformation and roadmap including changes to process, capability and mindset
• Drive enhancements to IT Communications to drive adoption of IT tools and technology with targeted messaging across segments and personas
• Lead the business review processes for business/strategic planning, developing OKR’s, budget and ROI for the CIO organization
• Enhance IT engagement on Equinix on Equinix through defining process for Sales prospecting support, Customer Zero case studies
• Lead operationalization of Citizen IT framework, platform and tools
• Evolve the governance of technology projects delivered by IT for the enterprise including streamlining processes for intake, funding, monitoring and alignment
• Lead a team of about 40 employees to foster operational excellence and a mindset of outcome-based planning and execution across IT
• Work closely with Senior leaders of IT Teams to provide a consistent/successful holistic interface and approach to solving business problems and needs.
• Ensure the optimization of the IT function via end-to-end performance monitoring and optimization, through meaningful data, metrics, insights and reporting to proactively enable effective business decisions
• Develop mechanism for global user listening and analysis to inform IT Strategy, drive strategy execution and user experience
• Act as an internal and external evangelist of IT strategy and culture
• Lead consolidation of RPA/Bot initiatives for centralized visibility, prioritization and development
• Manage the IT budget in partnership with Finance supporting IT leaders to be financially efficient

Knowledge and Experience sought:

• Strong business acumen as well as an understanding of product and technology transformation with effective agile development and thinking
• An authentic leader with humility, perseverance and drive and demonstrable commitment to Diversity & Inclusion, helping Equinix build a culture where every employee can confidently say “I’m Safe, I Belong and I Matter.”
• High energy with executive presence and demonstrated success building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, influencing and collaborating in cross-functional, highly-matrixed environments
• Thought leader, out of box thinker with ability to creatively solve problems with limited resources and input, comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
• 15+ years of experience at a high-growth tech company, or technology-focused enterprise in business operations or technology-centric consulting organization
• Excellent leadership capability to recruit, develop, inspire and empower talent and build high-performing teams
• Masters Degree in Product Management or Business Technology preferred
• Proven ability to build an organization that is “in service to” our employees and customers, whilst delivering operational excellence and continuous improvement
• Track record of delivering change and run within the OCIO (or similar) at global scale
• Proven success in leading Platform IT and execution of Project to Product transformations end-to-end

The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

San Francisco, CA / Bay Area: $213,000 to $373,000

California (Non-SF/Bay Area), Connecticut, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Washington state: $207,000 to $363,000

Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island: $197,000 to $345,000

Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.

This position may be offered in other locations. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.

More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link:

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