Senior Director, Process Excellence

Who are we? Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

Who are we? Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact.You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary A lot of companies are still working out what AI means for how work gets done. At Equinix, this role sits at the center of that question. In this role, you’ll help decide how the company reimagines its most critical value streams leveraging AI, and how its leaders build the management habits that make the changes stick.

The Senior Director, Process Excellence guides how Equinix reimagines some of its most critical value streams for AI transformation. Forward-deployed engineers build and deploy the solutions. This leader facilitates the work that comes before and alongside them: bringing business leaders and engineers into the same room to examine how work flows today, decide what the future flow should look like, and place AI and human judgment where each adds the most value, so the redesign starts from outcomes and decisions rather than from tools.

The role also develops the management practices / operating system that put continuous improvement principles to work, drawing on lean principles, along with the toolset that supports them, in partnership with HR. In selected areas of focus, this leader coaches parts of the organization directly on building the operating system that sustains a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll work with business leaders, people team, and our Digital and Innovation Organization, with visibility to senior leadership.

Responsibilities Reimagining Critical Value Streams for AI Transformation

Facilitate working sessions with business leaders and forward-deployed engineers to examine how work actually flows, find the structural bottlenecks, handoffs, and rework, and define the future flow before solutions are built

Bring Lean, Six Sigma, BPM, and value stream thinking together with process and process mining, so the redesign is grounded in how work runs today and aimed at measurable gains in speed, quality, cost, and decision-making

Help business leaders design for decisions and outcomes rather than tasks, build intelligence into core workflows, and place AI, automation, and human judgment where each adds the most value

Advise senior leaders on where AI applies and where it does not, and challenge designs that only speed up an existing process

Connect business leaders, the Digital and AI organization, and change efforts so that opportunities move from identification to deployment and adoption

Promote always-on visibility into how redesigned processes perform, so gains are sustained and drift is caught early

Establish a consistent approach across the enterprise to prioritizing, framing, and launching value stream redesigns

Management Practices / Operating System

Develop the Equinix management practices / operating system that builds from some of the best and enforces continuous improvement principles into daily use, including visual management, structured problem solving, performance management, and standard work

Build, with partners, the toolset that supports those practices, including standards, templates, and routines that teams can adopt and adapt

Work with HR so the practices reinforce the leadership expectations set for the company, and so the language, learning experiences, and capability pathways are consistent

Help create the shared language and mindset that make continuous improvement part of how the company operates

Coach selected parts of the organization on best practices for building the operating system that drives continuous improvement, with hands-on enablement in priority areas so teams and leaders can apply the practices and the redesign approach themselves

Decide what is standard across the enterprise and what can flex by region or function, and set a deliberate path for starting the practices where they will take hold

Embed process excellence disciplines at scale, and build communities of practice in process redesign and AI-enabled improvement so the capability spreads beyond this team

Assess how mature the practices are across the organization, esta