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Product Manager - Dallas, TX

National Guard Employment Network, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215

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Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 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.

Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our teams. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. 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.

Job Summary

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 270+ data centers across the globe and providing digital interconnection between cloud providers, networks and other Equinix customers using Equinix Fabric. Businesses need one place to simplify hybrid multicloud architectures and interconnect digital and physical assets. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We're looking for a Product Manager to help drive growth of our Equinix Fabric product business. You will work closely with customers and partners to understand business needs, use cases and develop a growth strategy to support this business. You will both develop business cases and feature enhancements for the product roadmap, provide regular reporting to the business on growth areas, opportunities, challenges and return-on-investment, and provide ongoing support of activities associated with managing a large growth product business.

Additional responsibilities include working with internal stakeholders to promote a commercial growth strategy, participating and attending conferences and other industry events, and acting as an overall evangelist for the Equinix Fabric product globally.

At Equinix, we help the world's digital leaders scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver extraordinary experiences, and transform people's lives. Our culture is based on collaboration and the growth and development of our people and teams.

We hire passionate people who thrive on solving meaningful problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills and try innovative approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions. 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.

Responsibilities

Support the growth of the overall Equinix Fabric business particularly in the areas of sales and marketing support, commercial enhancements and network-as-a-service feature development.

Collaborate with product engineering, network architects, network deployment, and service delivery teams in the rollout of new offers, releases, and markets related to Equinix Fabric

Run the business: analyze and optimize value chain activities; establish and monitor critical metrics; implement course corrections as needed

Partner with Solutions Architects, Sales and Business Development leaders to meet with interested customers to help communicate the overall value of Equinix Fabric and understand their business needs to help shape the direction of the product

Provide customer and partner briefings and serve as an evangelist particularly for the Network Service Provider (telco) vertical

Perform pricing evaluation and coordinate price changes

Participate in cross-functional training and meetings

Build knowledge of common use cases and lead magnets for Equinix Fabric and work with product marketing to communicate both internally and externally

Partner with UX, solution architects, and engineering to ideate solutions, placing a premium on user experience

Manage the backlog: Prioritize critical features based on analysis of the business opportunity vs level of effort

Define metrics that will be used to inform product success and help drive user experience improvements

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities

Qualifications

Minimum of 7 years of experience in a software defined network infrastructure product management role or a combination of 5 years of product management experience and experience in network engineering/architecture

Bachelor's degree in CS, EE or relevant field of study; MBA preferred

Experience building end to end software for cloud networks, virtualization, networking, etc.

Experience in API lifecycle management

Knowledge of data center digital infrastructure capabilities and the value of interconnection within this ecosystem

Passion for learning & mastering new technologies and bringing them together to build end-to-end solutions that meet customer needs

Approximately 10-15% travel for external or internal meetings and industry conferences