Director, Product Innovation

4 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Workday Full time
Director, Product Innovation

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 248+ 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 are a fast-growing global company with 20 years of continuous growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents – and counting  

 

A leadership role at Equinix means you will drive and collaborate on work that impacts the world. 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.  

 

The Role  

 

Reporting to the VP of Global Managed Services, the Product Innovation leader oversees the design and launch of new GMS products, their implementation and transition. They own the Roadmap for GMS products and portfolio strategy. This leader works closely with Architecture, Operations and Digital Services to develop and maintain best-in-class globally consistent service offerings—interaction of GMS with Equinix general processes and Q2C to ensure alignment of new products with business functions. They drive staged rollouts and enhancement plans for further global products. 

 

Responsibilities: 

 

Product Portfolio Management & Development 

  • Look externally to anticipate customer needs, understand the evolving competitive landscape, and use this knowledge to create the Platform Equinix experience most relevant to customers 

  • Leadership of global product life cycle management for introduction, evolution, as a transition (all activities related to the product development process: discovery, design, development, deployment). ​

Project Management 

  • Effective resource management to ensure new product portfolio is launched on time and budget  

  • Flexibility, agility and collaboration to ensure virtual teams and resources are available to support platform and portfolio rollout and transformation  

  • Prioritize and focus groups on the most important work 

  • Understand and implement change requirements, knowing when to push back constructively  

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Partner & Alliance Management 

  • Caring for the relationship with the technology partners and the global alliances to ensure better offerings, consistent relationship underpinning for new services​ 

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Issue Resolution 

  • Displays openness to new ideas and perspectives  

  • Is creative and comfortable taking risks  

  • Works to achieve consensus through collaboration 

  • Demonstrates agility; fails fast, learns from experiences, recovers quickly and moves forward 

  • It makes people feel safe that they belong and they matter  

  • Models working in a physically, mentally & emotionally sound way 

Knowledge and Experience: 

  • 15+ years experience in Managed Services and leadership roles or equivalent knowledge; 

  • 10+ years in Product Management roles or equivalent knowledge; 

  • Global multi-country experience 

  • Fluent in English. Desired Japanese, Portuguese or Spanish 

  • Built or led a high-performing, healthy, highly engaged team and instilled a service mindset  

  • Successfully set a vision and achieved operational excellence in large-scale programs  

 

Skills and Attributes: 

  • Proven leader with strong communication skills 
  • Demonstrated an ability to manage through or lead a change initiative  
  • Grounding in technology and industry trends  
  • A proven track record of building and leveraging solid cross-functional relationships with other cultures and diverse teams to influence and align others 
  • Demonstrates humility  
  • Displays enthusiasm; motivates and empowers others to achieve higher performance and better outcomes 

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