Senior Principal Product Manager

Senior Principal Product Manager

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. With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and service providers. 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

Manages the lifecycle of a product or group of products from concept to launch to end of life; sets the vision and strategy for a product line, ensuring it is competitively positioned and customer-centric.

Responsibilities

Product Lifecycle Management

• Defines, develops and manages the lifecycle of a product from concept to launch to end of life

Product Strategy, Vision and Roadmap

• Gathers, documents, designs and tests the best possible customer experience and incorporates the voice of the customer into the product roadmap

• Involves engineers, designers and others to create a shared vision and clear goals for the product, including a well-defined product roadmap

• Integrates insights from usability studies and other research to improve user experience and refine the product roadmap

Market, Competitive and Customer Analysis

• Identifies competitive and alternative offerings in the market and assesses their strengths and weaknesses to develop a strategy for winning against the competition

• Conducts market demand analysis to help guide strategic direction related to new exchange providers, new data center locations and new capabilities

Business Case Development

• Creates and collaborates on the financial business models, conducts compelling business opportunity reviews with the executive leadership team

Product Performance

• Uses tools and data analytics products to draw insights from usage and inform product improvements

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Effectively maintains and utilizes relationships with key stakeholders throughout the company

• Ensures alignment in cross-functional priorities

New Partner Identification and Engagement

• Identifies, vets and recommends partners to enhance the product

Backlog Prioritization

• Creates and prioritizes backlogs, working regularly with the team to refine and add detail where needed

• Collaborates closely with technology teams to provide clear direction on Agile product backlog, epic and user story requirements, and feature delivery

Test Case Definition and UAT Coordination

• Participates in UAT post enablement team testing

Stakeholder Management

• Manages stakeholder expectations within and/or across functions

• Identifies and proactively includes correct stakeholders and communications effectively

• Understands stakeholder needs and builds effective relationships

• Utilizes effective methods of communication with stakeholders, varying approach accordingly

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience preferred

• Bachelor's degree preferred

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