Director, Program and Project

**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.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. 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.

We are looking for Director, Program and Project (Strategy) to join our Global Legal Team. Reporting to the Global SVP- Global Regulatory, Public Policy, Privacy and Compliance, you will play a pivotal role to enable Equinix’s business priorities in rapidly evolving regulatory and public policy landscapes worldwide.

In this key enablement role, you will work closely in partnership with the Global Regulatory Office (GRO) and the Public Policy and Government Affairs team (PPGA) to comprehensively understand regulatory and public policy landscape shifts worldwide and identify, assess, and mitigate potential risks and opportunities to Equinix’s business. You will be responsible for designing and driving repeatable engagement models to ensure global teams are aligned, equipped, and empowered to execute regulatory and policy initiatives that drive business outcomes while ensuring compliance, such as helping to standardize workflows, identify gaps in engagement strategy, and support readiness and execution for fast-evolving global regulatory environments.

With a strong ability to distill and communicate complex issues, risk scenarios, impacts and mitigation plans to internal and external stakeholders at all levels, you will also be expected to stay up to date with regulatory and public policy trends in the data center industry. Other key skills for success in this role include: attention to detail, the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and the ability to influence and lead teams without direct authority. You will need to have mastered project management skills to help teams formulate plans from ambiguity, resolve issues, and remove roadblocks.

If you are passionate about helping businesses navigate uncertainty and build resilience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we encourage you to apply.

**Responsibilities**

**Engagement with Business Stakeholders**
- Foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including business operational teams, influencing as necessary to ensure business priorities are achieved in line with Equinix’s regulatory and public policy strategy.
- Lead and enable clear two-way communication channels between GRO/PPGA teams and Equinix’s business stakeholders to align Equinix’s regulatory and public policy strategy and framework with the business priorities.
- Facilitate the flow of strategic direction from the C-suite to the operational levels globally, while also gathering insights from the operational levels on customer trends, regulatory friction points and implementation challenges and proactively recommend mitigation measures to the GRPO to help align with its strategy and framework.
- Present findings and strategies to senior leadership, and business stakeholders, communicating complex issues, risks and strategies clearly and effectively to them.

**Regulatory and Policy Strategy and Operational Enablement**
- Collaborate with the GRO and PPGA teams to stay abreast of evolving regulatory and public policy landscape shifts worldwide.
- Collaborate cross-functionally proactively identifying potential risks and opportunities to Equinix’s business and formulating strategies to mitigate and manage risk, align on priorities, achieve buy-in, and overcome resistance
- Design and implement repeatable operational models that support global regulatory engagement and policy execution
- Build and maintain policy readiness playbooks and frameworks to ensure consistent cross-functional alignment and execution
- Serve as a strategic advisor on how to embed policy considerations into business planning and governance cycles
- Assess challenges and recommendations from multiple angles driving to the right conclusion balancing cross-functional priorities, customer needs, and our strategy
- Evaluates and queues up decision options with a recommendation to senior leaders
- Where necessary, collaborate with external consultants to develop company-wide initiatives to implement Equinix’s regulatory and public policy strategy across all levels of the organization globally.

**Project Management**
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