SVP, Interconnection Products & Services

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating over 260 data centers across the globe.
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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.
A leadership role at Equinix means you will drive and collaborate on work that impacts the world.
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SVP, Interconnection Products & Services The Senior Vice President of Interconnection Products & Services will own and execute the combined digital and physical interconnection portfolio.
With end-to-end responsibility for Equinix's interconnection offerings, this role emphasizes integrating interconnection capabilities to form a unified, scalable product experience and shift the focus from product-defined point capabilities to recognizing interconnection as a core capability.
This SVP will leverage product engineering capabilities to drive engineering excellence, reduce redundant development efforts, and enable product and software innovation within the interconnection domain.
Collaborating cross-functionally, they will play a central role in expanding Equinix's interconnection strategy, driving ecosystem synergies, and advancing a unified Retail-Hyperscaler value proposition to enhance customer network effects and ensure an innovative, digitally empowered customer experience.
Responsibilities
Product vision and strategy:
set and execute a cohesive, digitally oriented strategic vision for Equinix's interconnection portfolio, consolidating legacy digital services and aligning products to Equinix's broader corporate and market objectives.
Unified interconnection strategy:
activate customer network effects by converging interconnection offerings across digital and physical products, leveraging ecosystem synergies and integrated retail-hyperscaler value to drive scale and seamless connectivity.
Lifecycle management:
oversee the full product lifecycle, from ideation to market delivery, with a focus on unified interconnection capabilities and high standards of scalability, security, and quality.
Profitability and growth:
drive profitability and growth of interconnection products by optimizing portfolio alignment with Equinix's financial goals and expanding engineering excellence within the product.
Cross-functional collaboration:
partner closely with sales, marketing, engineering, and operations to ensure consistent execution across the product roadmap and effective collaboration across product functions.
Digital customer experience:
enable digitally empowered, software-enabled customer and service provider interactions to enhance enterprise and partner visibility, interaction, and product consumption.
Market insights and roadmap prioritization:
leverage market research and customer insights to inform product development, prioritizing goals that balance near-term objectives with scalable long-term growth.
Architecture and engineering excellence:
oversee network architecture design within the interconnection portfolio, ensuring engineering excellence, efficiency, and avoidance of duplicative development efforts (e.g., unified IP address management, control plane for network).
Resource and budget management:
optimize budgets, resources, and timelines to support efficient project execution and alignment with interconnection strategy goals.
Innovation and R&D:
drive continuous innovation and product evolution through focused research and development, converging current interconnection capabilities into a streamlined, customer-centered portfolio.
Performance metrics:
establish and track KPIs to monitor success, using data to refine strategy and inform leadership on performance outcomes and adjustments.
Business simplification:
streamline support for interconnection products to enhance operational efficiency and simplify customer engagement across offerings.
Team leadership:
build and lead a high-performance team focused on agile development, engineering rigor, and strategic impact, promoting a culture of innovation within the interconnection ecosystem.
Qualifications & Experience
Extensive experience at a high growth tech company leading a large-scale product management organization.
Strong commercial acumen and experience of leading in a heavily matrixed organization.
Executive presence and demonstrated success building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and influencing and collaborating in cross-functional environments.
Demonstrated experience building a thriving culture aligned to Equinix values.
Expert communicator with clear business acumen and operational experience to advise and influence the most senior executives across the company.
Leadership capabilities to recruit talent and build a high-performance team.
Deep background in commercial and financial management.
Knowledge of legal and regulatory considerations that may impact the monetization process.
Strong interpersonal skills to foster collaboration among diverse stakeholders, ensuring alignment of goals and strategies.
Ability to creatively solve problems with limited resources and input, comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment.
Foster the culture of agile development in a fast-paced environment with continuous product development and deployment.
Be an inspirational leader who empowers teams.
Equinix is an equal opportunity employer.
All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.
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