Vice President of Corporate Strategy, Equinix
$245-414k
Salary applicable to candidates based in San Francisco, CA / Bay Area
Digital infrastructure company
Job no longer available
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$245-414k
Salary applicable to candidates based in San Francisco, CA / Bay Area
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- Market dynamics, industry trends, and competitive landscape in the data center or digital infrastructure industry
- Sustainability and environmental impact considerations
- Emerging technologies such as AI and machine learning
- Global economic and geopolitical trends
- Regulatory and compliance landscape
- Expert level strategy experience in a technology/consulting firm
- Deep understanding of the infrastructure and platform domains, as well as enterprise technology more broadly
- Strong understanding of Equinix's customers, offerings, organization, competitive landscape, and market opportunities
- Experience in M&A and investment evaluation, with a focus on strategy and market potential OK perfect
- Strategic thinker with the ability to anticipate key market and technology trends that will create opportunities for future growth and value creation
- Analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data and information into actionable insights and recommendations
- Business acumen and understanding of financial principles, with the ability to translate external insights into actionable strategies
- Effective communicator and thought leader, with the right balance of operational experience to advise and influence the most senior executives across the company
- Mentally agile to move seamlessly between disruptive, long range strategic planning, and support for current quarter initiatives at headquarters or within the regional organizations
What the job involves
- A leadership role at Equinix means you will drive and collaborate on work that impacts the world
- Pivotal role responsible for charting the strategic direction of the company, driving growth and ensuring long-term competitiveness in the rapidly evolving data center and digital infrastructure landscape
- Working within the Office of the CEO, this leader will be responsible for identifying and analyzing critical technology trends, understanding shifts in market forces, characterizing resulting risks and opportunities, and crafting targeted plans of action in response to rapidly changing industry dynamics
- The Corporate Strategy leader will collaborate closely with executive leadership, cross-functional leaders and teams, and external stakeholders to identify new opportunities and mitigate risks
- Outline Strategic choices/strategies: Provide thought leadership and outline strategic choices, with primary responsibility for developing and executing innovative, financially sound, and data-driven corporate strategies to attain business objectives, enhance market leadership and improve shareholder value
- Maintain up-to-date market perspective: Conduct in-depth market analysis, industry research, competitive assessments, customer insights and emerging technologies to identify growth opportunities and potential threats. This includes staying up-to-date and proactively accounting for shifts in political conditions, social trends, and legal/ regulatory developments
- Validate recommendations: ensure all proposed initiatives passed through rigorous strategic and evaluative gates before being recommended for funding and launch
- Assist in M&A / partnerships: Collaborate with the executive leadership and cross-functional teams to drive strategic pursuits for investment consideration, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and partnerships, based on a deep understanding of external market dynamics
- Frame Recommendations and Execution: Develop and frame strategic recommendations and provide market-validated data that enables Equinix to make key decisions related to profitability, growth, and transformation
- Advise / alert C-suite on important topics / trends: Advise C-Suite leaders and board on pressing strategic issues, leveraging external insights and industry best practices, and actively contribute to the development and execution of long-term business planning
- Involve cross-functional Stakeholders: Collaborate with products, services, and GTM teams to develop and implement growth strategies, including product development, pricing, and go-to-market plans
- Continually Assess Performance versus Strategy: regularly review and assess Equinix's strategic performance (in collaboration with EVP, Business Operations), identifying areas for improvement and recommending forward-thinking actions
- Assist with Communication: Develop and provide clear content for communicating and implementing Equinix strategy, including working with data analytics teams to develop and implement strategy-driven metrics
- Enable performance-driven culture: Create a performance-driven culture that supports the development of a world-class strategy organization
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
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 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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