Vice President, Global Technical Sales Americas

6 months ago

Toronto, Canada Equinix Full time

**Who are we?**

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 250 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.

Vice President, Global Technical Sales Americas

**Job Summary**

Under the direction of the SVP, Global Technical Sales Team (GTST) the VP of AMER (US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico) provides strategic vision, thought leadership and robust GTM management to Equinix pre-sales technical teams of architects and engineers to drive accelerated new business orders and revenue growth in key regional markets (activities to include planning, organizing, leading and controlling sales growth initiatives via proactive technical engagement, client relationship building and customer satisfaction). Actively engages with all GTM sales teams in region as well as cross functional partners in legal, finance, marketing, channel and Customer Care teams in the development of new and expanded client revenue streams.

**Responsibilities**
- Builds a high performing technical pre-sales organization able to achieve superior results, growing business w/existing customers, closing new opportunities and new logos
- Leads AMER GTST team to grow existing customers on the global platform while expanding pipeline of new customers to facilitate deal closure, leveraging tools that improve processes and tighten discipline
- Attracts, recruits, trains, and retains exceptional technical sales talent
- Inspires, motivates, and maintains a culture that optimizes the passion and potential of the GTST team with a DIB focus
- Facilitates the working relationships with all GTM sales teams, Regional Leadership Teams, Marketing, Product and GCCX organizations
- Creates a vision for the AMER GTST organization by creating a strategic roadmap to attain global and regional sales metrics
- Provides coaching and mentoring, knowledge and technical pre-sales efforts to increase traction, client penetration, learning and sales
- Provides leadership, guidance, and development to GTST leaders and individual contributors
- Defines and reports on metrics to measure performance of technical pre-sales activities in partnership with Sales Operations
- Supports the development of technical sales proposals that win against the competition in partnership with sales GTM teams globally
- Partners to expand existing client base to drive broader opportunities and insure proper alignment and sales resource allocation within new and existing customers

**Qualifications**
- High-energy, high-integrity individual who can simultaneously inspire change while sustaining a culture of team harmony and high performance
- Strong technical acumen including digital services (cloud, infrastructure etc), networking services, connectivity and infrastructure and physical colocation
- Leadership and coaching skills to build a high performing technical pre-sales organization able to achieve superior bookings, revenue and strategic results
- Client relationship and development skills to expand existing customers while developing pipeline of new enterprise customers
- Talent Attractor who recruits, trains, and retains exceptional technical sales talent w/ diversity focus
- Followership - Inspire, motivate, and maintain a culture that optimizes the passion and potential of the GTST team where all feel safe and included
- Superior partner developer for direct and indirect sales channels, Regional Leadership Teams, Marketing and Customer organizations
- Visionary for our core and digital BUs by creating a strategic roadmap to attain global and regional metrics
- Succinct communication skills, gravitas, executive presence, strong presentation abilities
- Curious mindset, constant learner, leader by example
- Generous and empathetic leadership style putting team goals before personal and treating others with respect
- Deep AMER regional knowledge to include top clients, partners, industry trends coupled with Global reach and impact
- Demonstrated track record in technical sales leadership
- Significant experience over a broad range of company sizes ($500 M+)
- Knowledge of the retail data center business, and data center business regionally and globally, or large Technology, Telecoms, or Cloud and Platform solutions
- BA/BS degree or equivalent

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