Product Manager

Company: Equinix
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: January 16, 2020

Job Description:

Product Manager

Equinix is one of the fastest growing data center companies, growing connectivity between clients worldwide. That s why we're always looking for creative and forward thinking people who can help us achieve our goal of global interconnection. With 200 data centers in over 24 countries spanning across 5 continents, we are home to the Cloud, supporting over 1000 Cloud and IT services companies that are directly engaged in technological innovation and development. We are passionate about further evolving the specific areas of software development, software and network architecture, network operations and complex cloud and application solutions.

At Equinix, we make the internet work faster, better, and more reliably. We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving hard problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, try new approaches, and grow in new directions. Our culture is at the heart of our success and it s our authentic, humble, gritty people who create The Magic of Equinix. We share a real passion for winning and put the customer at the center of everything we do.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* Define, develop and lead the lifecycle of the Edge Metal product from concept to launch to end of life

* Become the product authority on EM product strategy, roadmap, use cases and overall global

* Command of the product in customer discussions alongside solution architects, sales engineers and sales executives, including doing hands-on product demos

* We run product beta trials with customers, and provide feedback for subsequent product iterations

* Integrate insights from usability studies and other research to improve user experience and refine the roadmap

* Research and evaluate emerging trends and technologies, and participate in tradeshows

* Develop go-to-market strategies in close collaboration with Product Marketing

* We provide requirements to engineering, prepare business cases and quote-to-cash operations paths

* Employ lean startup principles to ideate, experiment, measure, learn and pivot

QUALIFICATIONS

* Do you enjoy driving product strategy, influencing partners, motivate engineering, and deliver the product strategy through the entire software development lifecycle

* Excellent negotiation skills to effectively navigate across the organization to align required resources to achieve your goals

* Do you have experience with enterprise platform architectures: IaaS and SaaS ?

* We utilize Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures (REST APIs) and look to you to extend our use of these

* We are the only option for hybrid multi cloud and you will draw on AWS EC2, Azure, or Google Cloud for enterprise customers

* Experienced in agile development

* We will travel 10% to customers, company offices, conferences, etc.

* Solid understanding of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud architectures

* 5+ years experience preferred in enterprise level product management or technical customer-facing experience (such as technical marketing, outbound product management, sales engineering, solutions architect etc.).

* 4+ years experience preferred with service-oriented architectures in a cloud environment, with direct involvement in IaaS implementations. 10+ years of overall industry experience preferred.

* Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering preferred or equivalent experience

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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