Vice President of Strategy & Operations, Equinix
Digital and Innovation Organization
$276-414k
Above salary applies to Redwood City only. Toronto: 247k - 371k CAD. Other locations may vary. Employees are eligible for bonus
Digital infrastructure company
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Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$276-414k
Above salary applies to Redwood City only. Toronto: 247k - 371k CAD. Other locations may vary. Employees are eligible for bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Strong intellect, ideally with a bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, or a related field. An MBA or advanced is highly advantageous
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in technology, digital, innovation, or enterprise operations in a large-scale, complex international B2B technology-centric organization
- Proven track record in operating model design, enterprise transformation, or technology business management
- Deep understanding of modern technology operating models including Agile, product-centricity, data-driven decision making, and cloud-native architecture
- Strong business acumen and ability to bridge strategic vision with operational delivery
- Familiarity with metrics-driven performance management (e.g., OKRs, KPIs)
- Strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset and a passion for operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and partner effectively with executive stakeholders, especially in complex, matrixed organizations
- Excellent problem-solving ability to understand stakeholder needs, drive prioritization, and deliver value
- Adept at inspiring behavior change through motivating teams, planning initiatives, designating priorities, and being decisive when faced with ambiguity
- Ability to provide thought leadership, think strategically and effectively communicate vision and influence across the organization
- Ability to be data driven, decisive, execution-focused and results-oriented to ensure strategy translates to outcomes
- Is a transformational leader who excels at driving bold and meaningful change at scale and across multiple dimensions
- Leads with a global mindset, across cultures, in a highly matrixed, relationship and consensus-driven environment
- Cultivates Innovation – Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation
What the job involves
- The VP Strategy and Operations – COO of the Digital and Innovation Organization (DIO) serves as the operational backbone and strategic integrator of the DIO.
- The role ensures the execution of strategic priorities, drives workforce and location optimization, strategic portfolio and vendor management, and enables business operations to run effectively and efficiently across the organization.
- The VP partners closely with the CDIO and DIO leadership team to maximize business value and organizational performance
- Define the DIO strategy and translate into actionable initiatives, performance goals, operating plans and measurable initiatives across the digital portfolio
- Responsible for DIO performance, including risk management and reporting
- OKR development, management, and performance monitoring/analysis
- Lead workforce planning and location hub strategy, ensuring the right skills are in the right locations in partnership with HR, aligned to business priorities and financial metrics
- Implement a scalable location strategy that maximizes productivity and increases employee engagement
- Drive initiatives to build a future ready, high-performance workforce
- Launch a digital university
- Oversee the strategic intake, prioritization, and governance of the DIO initiatives
- Drive annual planning efforts across portfolios, ensuring strategic alignment of prioritized investments to Equinix strategy and goals
- Monitor progress on key initiatives, measure impact, and escalate risks or dependencies as needed
- Serves as the point leader for digital integration across M&A transactions, ensuring seamless onboarding of systems, talent and processes into the DIO ecosystem
- Manages software asset management, resource management, and application governance to optimize spend, reduce risk, and drive operational efficiency
- Business Process Improvements, policy and procedures for DIO
- Budget and spend management
- Partner with procurement and finance on vendor strategy, contract management, and value realization across the technology and innovation ecosystem.Manage executive-level interactions with key vendors, partners, and service providers
- Partner with legal, security, and risk functions to proactively mitigate risk while enabling innovation
- Lead internal communications across DIO to ensure alignment, transparency, and engagement with strategy, performance, and transformation initiatives
- Build, coach and expand the customer enablement digital team to support the business’ success
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
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 HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
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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