Corporate Development Senior Manager

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. 

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary 

The Corporate Development Senior Manager leads investment analyses and recommendations to support strategic growth. They are expected to build deep expertise, strong internal partnerships and external relationship to deliver results through acquisitions, new data center developments, real estate investments, joint ventures and divestitures. 

 
Responsibilities 
Inorganic Investment Management (M&A and Divestitures): 

• Drive acquisitions of single assets, companies/portfolios and powered-land/site platforms 

• Engage across the full deal lifecycle—thesis and market mapping; valuation and returns modeling; diligence orchestration (e.g., commercial, operations, real estate, design & construction, finance, integration, HR, IT, power, regulatory, REIT/tax, etc.); structuring/negotiation; close; and pre-close 

• Support development of each M&A thesis (the "why")  

• Develop deal valuation frameworks including comparable companies, precedent transactions, discounted cash flow and related investment return valuation models; and pro forma accretion/dilution analyses 

• Develop operational models and synergy forecasts for targets 

• Develops transaction timelines 

• Supports the storyboarding of presentations to drive discussion at the Senior Executive level 

• Communicates with stakeholders to ensure alignment on active deal pipeline and cross-functional team resourcing 

• Develop and present business cases to investment committees 

• Partner with Integration team to ensure effective post-close integration that results in execution of investment theses and investment objectives (i.e., operating performance, financial performance, cultural) 

• Actively follow and analyze deal activity in areas of interest to Equinix 

• Direct, coach and mentor more junior team members or internal partners with less M&A experience 

 
Organic Investment Management: 

• Drive development of business cases for organic investment for densification of current Metro footprints and expansions to new campuses; driving and overseeing financial modeling 

• Develop and present business c