Vice President Legal, Equinix
Ethics & Compliance
$290-390k
+ Bonus. Salary dependent on location
Digital infrastructure company
Posted today
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Posted today
$290-390k
+ Bonus. Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years legal experience, with at least 10 years in a relevant practice area(s)
- Deep knowledge of ethics and compliance standards, anti-bribery laws and sanctions
- Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels
- Experience executing against global compliance goals and objectives
- Experience building and/or operating an Ethics & Compliance program at a global company
- Executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite & cross-functional executives
- High business acumen around multiple legal disciplines
- Adept at balancing short-term pressures with long-term goals
- Ability to inspire behavior change and motivate teams
- Strategy and planning experience with the ability to designate priorities and be decisive when faced with ambiguity
- Execution and results driven
- Establish high performance standards, goal setting, and following through with plans while holding teams accountable for results
- Bachelor’s Degree and Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional, Certified Fraud Examiner) are highly desirable
What the job involves
- You will serve as the global leader specializing in Ethics & Compliance. This is a key leadership role responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining an effective ethics and compliance program that aligns with the company’s core values, legal obligations and strategic goals
- The VP, Legal - Ethics & Compliance will work to foster a culture of integrity and ethical decision-making across the organization, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies in the increasingly regulated environment of the data center industry
- Compliance Strategy: Design, develop and implement a comprehensive compliance strategy that is risk based, proportionate, and aligned with the organization’s goals and objectives. This includes establishing policies, procedures and controls to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations and industry standard
- Staying current: Stay up to date with relevant laws, regulations, and industry best practices to ensure the organization’s compliance, particularly as the organization extends its presence in high-risk jurisdictions. Monitor changes in the ethics and compliance regulatory landscape and assess their impact on the organization’s operations
- Risk Assessment: Conduct regular risk assessments to identify potential compliance risks and develop strategies to mitigate them. This may involve evaluating internal processes, conducting audits, and implementing risk management frameworks. Evaluate risk-tailored resource allocation and provide updates and input on revisions based on assessment
- Lessons learned: process for tracking and incorporating lessons learned from risk assessment and prior issues, including from other companies operating in the same industry/region into compliance strategy
- Develop and enforce policies addressing ethical conduct, conflicts of interest, whistleblowing, anti-bribery, and corruption
- Responsible for integrating policies and procedures and ensuring employees’ understanding of the policies
- Evaluate how compliance policies and procedures are reinforced through internal controls, working with other relevant functions
- Training key gatekeepers in the control processes to identify and escalate concerns
- Champion an ethical culture across the organization by developing and leading training programs on ethics, compliance, and integrity
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive team and board of directors on ethical practices, compliance matters, and emerging regulatory trends
- Provide guidance and support to employees on ethical decision-making and encourage a strong compliance mindset throughout the organization. Encourage open dialogue and accountability at all levels of the organization through clear communication and accessible reporting mechanisms
- Foster “open door” atmosphere across organization to ensure that concerns and issues come to the attention of the ethics and compliance organization
- Identify and assess ethics-related risks in business activities, including supply chain operations, third-party relationships, and customer engagements. Promote and uphold the company’s core values and ethical standards in all business operations
- Evaluate effectiveness of reporting mechanisms, including employee awareness of reporting methods
- Responsible for developing processes for evaluating complaints and reports and scoping investigations. Process to ensure that investigations are properly evaluated, scoped, and are independent, objective, appropriately conducted and properly documented
- Work with other groups on tracking investigations and results
- Lead internal investigations into alleged misconduct, ensuring thorough, unbiased, and confidential handling of issues
- Oversee compliance audits and monitoring activities to evaluate the effectiveness of the ethics and compliance program
- Report on program effectiveness, key findings, and risk mitigation efforts to the board of directors and executive leadership
- Ensure accurate and timely disclosures to regulatory authorities and stakeholders
- Lead and develop a team of compliance and ethics professionals, fostering a high-performance culture
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Legal, Human Resources, IT, and Operations, to integrate ethical standards and compliance measures into all business processes
- Create a collaborative, transparent and entrepreneurial culture, in partnership with corporate leadership
- Motivate employees around a shared vision and effectively manage change
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
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Company
Company benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
Company values
- Seek something bigger - Come drive meaningful change as part of the world’s trusted, leading digital infrastructure company. Together, our work enables innovation that enriches our work, life and planet
- Challenge assumptions - Bring your unique perspectives and contributions to help us make bold decisions, become aware of biases and remove any barriers that still exist
- Want to unlock your potential - Achieve, learn, adapt and be comfortable building a fulfilling career. We are here to help you unlock your potential
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Charles Meyers
(President & CEO (Not Founder))Former Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton, President and COO at BellSouth.net, and VP of Business and Corp Development at Internet Security Systems. Before becoming CEO of Equinix, they were a Senior Technology Executive and Fitness Entrepreneur at Life Restorations LLC and Group President of Messaging and Mobile Media at VeriSign.
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