Director, Xscale Product

Director, xScale Product

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**

The Director xScale Product reports to the Senior Director, xScale Product, and is responsible for contributing to the end-to-end delivery of the xScale product; product design, strategic customer engagement, competitor analysis, review cross-functional stakeholder process checkpoints, and assessment of strategic intent to Equinix and our investors.

**Responsibilities**

Product Development
- Member of the product management function of xScale, encompassing planning, initiative development, and deployment
- Collaborates with Global Engineering Development team in ideation/research for MKx in direct response to customer future requirements
- Evaluates new technologies & opportunities with T2M, sustainability, efficiency, flexibility & operability at the fore.
- Evaluate overall constructability along with design to cost and program benefits
- Speed to market study assessor and responsible for delivering all aspects of the tender
- Collation of tender for MKx and on-going support for D&C in the GC role out of product understanding
- Define the xScale product requirement standard and customer specific (Customer SKUs).
- Develop SKU pack template outputs for each customer type to align with commercial/pricing BOQ’s eg NRC’s, MRC’s, SAP, etc
- Coordinate dissemination of xScale technical requirements by interfacing with Equinix Design/Engineering team Development teams
- Track investment impacting KPI’s (time and money) to drive an on-time and on-budget approach.

Product Interlock & Strategy
- Support achievement of coordination and engagement of the Equinix teams, in supporting technical due diligence requirements from Investors, lenders and appraisers
- Ensures a tight, two-way relationship between Product and cross-functional stakeholders
- Contributes to the strategy and direction to scale and improve our product offering
- Builds and maintains healthy relationships at all levels of the organization - evangelizing with colleagues, aligning on common goals, and stacking hands on a shared vision
- Evangelizes the product portfolio by engaging regularly with internal teams and customers to drive deeper understanding of our products and offerings and differentiation in the market
- Seen as a thought leader, engaging with customers and internal teams to explain the product strategy
- Works within cross function teams for setting strategies for optimal utilization of resources across the program
- Identifies potential budget shortfalls and partner with Finance and/or other leadership to manage proactively
- Manages and/or escalates issues, as needed
- Presents to product proposals to senior leadership for final approval

Contributing to team performance & an inclusive culture
- Build partnerships with the many stakeholders who support xScale within Equinix
- Provide guidance for escalations to other xScale and business stakeholders
- Role model transformational leadership behaviors
- Challenge existing xScale managed processes based on industry best practice and trends to ensure Equinix, JV partners and customers are maintaining a best-in-class approach
- Model the Equinix cultures and values

Collaboration Characteristics of the Role:

- Is a transformational leader who excels at contributing to bold and meaningful change at scale and across multiple dimensions.
- Has a global mindset, across cultures, in a highly matrixed, relationship and consensus-driven environment.
- Cultivates Innovation - Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation

**Qualifications**
- Substantial experience in designing and leading hyperscale product design
- Strong construction background and experience
- Solid experience of financial