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. 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

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to help drive our Equinix Fabric interconnection offering with our service provider community (cloud, network, security, and other similar services). You will work closely together to understand business needs, use cases and develop a roadmap and strategy to support and grow this business. You will both develop feature requests and business cases for the product roadmap as well as tactically manage the backlog based on a deep understanding of Equinix Fabric service provider needs and return-on-investment.

Additional responsibility will include working with stakeholders to grow and develop our suite of Fabric APIs by building on the existing developer.equinix.com platform, creating and implementing migration plans from old to new versions, and working with customers to build an API product strategy and drive new feature development to completion.

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 new Fabric Gateway Layer 3 routing service built on Equinix Fabric

• Build knowledge of common Equinix Fabric use cases for Fabric Gateway and work with product marketing to communicate both internally and externally

• Partner with Solutions Architects and Sales to meet with interested customers to help communicate the overall value of Fabric Gateway and understand their business needs to help shape the direction of the product

• Drive and communicate the overall roadmap. Participate in crafting a shared vision and clear goals and OKRs for 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 the rollout of new offers, releases, and markets

• Design product training curriculum; participate in cross-functional training and meetings

• Run the business: analyze and optimize value chain activities; establish and monitor critical metrics; implement course corrections as needed

• Provide customer and partner briefings and serve as an evangelist

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a software product management role or a combination of 5 years of product management and past experience in product engineering/architecture

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE or relevant field of study; MBA preferred

• Experienced building complex software for Cloud Networks and XaaS; deep, end-to-end experience building cloud technologies: CSPs, XaaS, virtualization, networking, etc.

• Experienced in API lifecycle management

• Knowledge of data center digital infrastructure capabilities and the value of interconnection within this ecosystem

• Passion for learning & mastering new technologies and bringing them together to build end-to-end solutions that meet customer needs

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you need assistance in applying for an open position, you may send an email to Staffing@equinix.com. Please provide your contact information and let us know how we can assist you.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.