Principal Product Manager

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 210 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.  

We’re looking for a Senior or Principal 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  

• Support and develop product strategy in support of the Equinix Fabric Service Provider community (CSPs, Network Providers, Resellers, etc.) 
• Grow and maintain the Equinix Fabric API platform and strategy  
• Build knowledge of common Equinix Fabric use cases for Service Providers and work with product marketing to communicate  
• 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  
• Collaborate with Product Marketing and Partner Marketing on GTM alignment to enable direct sales, partners, and technology partners  
• 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  

• 7 - 10+ years of experience in a software product management role or combination of product engineering/architecture with customer-facing experience 
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, EE or relevant field of study, MBA preferred  
• A consistent track record of building complex software for Networks and/or XaaS  
• Knowledge of data center digital infrastructure capabilities and the value of interconnection within this ecosystem  
• An end-to-end understanding of cloud technologies: CSPs, XaaS, virtualization, networking, APIs, etc.  
• Passion for learning & mastering new technologies and bringing them together to build end-to-end solutions that meet customer needs 

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 a disability.