Product Manager, Interconnection, Internet Exchange

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals. 

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

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ 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’re looking for a Product Manager to help drive our Equinix Internet Exchange offering that enables networks, content providers and large enterprises to exchange internet traffic through the largest global peering solution across more than 40 global markets. You will work closely with customers and partners to understand business needs, use cases and develop a growth strategy to support this business. You will both develop business cases and feature enhancements for the product roadmap as well as provide regular reporting to the business on growth areas, opportunities, challenges and return-on-investment.  

Additional responsibility will include working with internal stakeholders including business development to promote a growth strategy, participating and attending peering forums and other industry events, and acting as an overall evangelist for the IX product globally.

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

We hire passionate people who thrive on solving meaningful problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try innovative 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.  

Responsibilities 

• Ownership of the product strategy in support of the Equinix Internet Exchange (IX) product

• Build knowledge of common use cases and lead magnets for IX and work with product marketing to communicate both internally and externally

• Partner with Solutions Architects, Sales and Business Development leaders to meet with interested customers to help communicate the overall value of IX and understand their business needs to help shape the direction of the product

• Partner with UX, solution architects, and engineering to ideate solutions, placing a premium on user experience  

• Validate ideas with customers before, during, and after development  

• Manage the backlog: Prioritize critical features based on analysis of the business opportunity vs level of effort  

• Define metrics that will be used to inform product success and help drive user experience improvements  

• Perform pricing evaluation and coordinate price changes  

• Collaborate with product engineering, network architects, network deployment, and service delivery teams in