Senior Product Manager

Description:

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to help drive our Network Edge offering to the next level, enabling our customers to easily deploy hybrid multi-cloud networking capabilities - from our marketplace of leading technology vendors - to achieve their digital aspirations while achieving end-to-end management, performance, standardization, security, and compliance goals. As an individual contributor you will have broad responsibilities to tactically manage the backlog based on a deep understanding of customer needs and ROI, and strategically develop the roadmap based on critically assessing new market opportunities. Network Edge is one of the fastest-growing services at Equinix. Check out our current offering here - https://www.equinix.com/services/edge-services/network-edge. And we are just getting started.

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

Responsibilities

• Execute the Network Edge strategy to power the world’s digital leaders with digital infrastructure

• Help identify and grow the marketplace with new technology vendors including opportunity analysis, planning, GTM strategy, execution and launch through strong vendor collaboration

• Partner with and deeply listen to customers and field sales to identify unmet needs and new use cases

• Manage and communicate the roadmap. Participate in creating a shared vision and clear goals for the product

• Manage the backlog: Prioritize the few items to move forward among many candidates based on an analysis of the business opportunity vs level of effort

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

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

• Manage stakeholder expectations within and/or across functions; Identify and proactively include correct stakeholders and communicate effectively; Understand stakeholder needs and build effective relationships; Utilize effective methods of communication with stakeholders, varying approaches accordingly

• Validate ideas with customers before, during, and after development

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

• Keep GTM and supportability front-of-mind in designing product offerings

• Design product training curriculum; participates in cross-functional training and meetings

• Run the business: analyze and optimize value chain activities; establish and monitor KPIs; implements course corrections as needed

• Other responsibilities include supporting market assessments with qualitative and quantitative research; validate the problem space; size the market; meaningfully segment it; determine segment attractiveness, develop theory of competitive advantage and implications for value chain; create business case and impacts to EBITDA. Research competitors and verticals; prepares reports related to financial position, competitive position and market potential