Strategic Programs Manager - Digital Interconnection

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 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. 

Strategic Programs Manager - Digital Interconnection

Job Summary

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company. Much of the internet that you know flows through our rapid interconnected network and data centers. Our Equinix Internet Exchange is the world’s largest Internet Exchange while our Equinix Fabric has the largest market share in Software Defined Interconnection. We are looking to build our next generation multi-cloud networking service to help customers solve the complexities and challenges of multi-cloud networking that builds upon our Digital Interconnection platform. 

We are looking for an experienced Program Manager to partner with Product Management, Engineering, and GTM teams to launch a large-scale multi-cloud networking service for the next phase of our growth. 

You will be joining an empowered team and thriving in a culture that encourages innovative problem solving, learning, autonomy, and a work life balance while focusing on the highest P&L impacting initiatives. You work with smart minds who are committed to building the PMO of the future that goes beyond the traditional program management function to solve business problems. 

Success in this role will require listening to the product development teams within our digital service’s business to identify problems, craft strategic solutions, and execute using data-driven decision making and influence. Combine the strong delivery skills of a traditional program manager with the emerging trends of agile methodologies to solve problems. An agile PMO is a leader who collaborates with teams to develop an agile program framework, focus on the ‘why’ and ‘what’ as much as the ‘how’, and supports the team to meet their commitments.   

Responsibilities 

Problem solving and business analysis 

• Develop data driven business analysis models to drive optimization at various stages of the product life cycle   

• Derive insights from quantitative and qualitative data analysis for operational efficiency opportunities and develop executive ready presentations with recommendations to solve the business problem at hand

• Gather requirements from stakeholders and customers to enable a sufficient business analysis 

• Influence stakeholders to gain approval, alignment, and resources for strategic projects for data-backed efficiency opportunities and strategic initiatives

• Measure the impact of the work being delivered, track and communicate key program metrics and facilitate relentless data-driven improvements for the organization

Planning and Execution 

• Lead multiple strategic initiatives for the Digital Interconnection portfolio, by navigating ambiguity, understanding context of product life cycle, and developing a programmatic approach for resolution

• Gather and verify program requirements, establish goals, outcomes, metrics, and timelines

• Develop a program framework and operating cadence for the strategic programs with plan of record and key milestones

• Develop change management and communication plans for transformational initiatives

• Drive executio