About the role
Who you are
- 4-6 years in product management or technical program management or software engineering
- Prior experience as a data analyst, data scientist, software engineer, or similar technical role
- Proficient in SQL- can write complex queries, or programming languages, troubleshoot performance issues, and evaluate whether a proposed data model will serve the use case
- Familiar with ETL/ELT concepts and data pipeline architecture
- Comfortable operating with incomplete information and competing priorities; able to engage credibly with engineering on technical tradeoffs
- Strong communication skills; able to translate between technical and business audiences
- Experience building unified data products that integrate multiple source systems like Salesforce, Gainsight, Oracle, or Cloud platforms
- Experience in migrating data to systems like Salesforce, Gainsight, Oracle, or Cloud platforms
- Experience building customer-facing data products, not just internal tools / dashboards
- Familiarity with data quality challenges: entity resolution, duplicate handling, schema conflicts across systems
- Experience with technology migrations or managing products through significant platform changes
- Hands-on experience with Python for data analysis or prototyping
- Cloud data platform expertise (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift)
- Industry background in cloud infrastructure, B2B SaaS, data centers, telecommunications, or multi-cloud networking
- Able to break down ambiguous problems into clear requirements and actionable work items
- Able to quickly T-shirt size level of effort for data and AI initiatives across product and engineering
- Able to effectively translate between engineering and business - simplifying technical tradeoffs for executives while maintaining credibility with engineers
- Takes ownership of outcomes, follows through on commitments and holds partners accountable
What the job involves
- Our data products power the insights, decisions, and operations of teams across Equinix. We build and manage core data platform capabilities, reusable data models, semantic layers, decision-ready dashboards, conversational BI, and custom AI solutions including interconnection recommendation engines, automated data center cage design, etc
- As we scale, we're transforming internal operational and analytical data into unified, governed, high quality assets for Equinix, and we plan to build toward commercializing differentiated data and insights offerings for external customers
- We're looking for a Principal, Product Management to drive the execution of the data and AI product roadmap for our Go-To-Market Organization. This is a hands-on technical product management role that bridges business needs and technical delivery
- You will engage with business stakeholders to understand their pain points, and work closely with engineering and data science teams to translate business needs into well-defined data and AI products, manage delivery timelines, ensure products meet business needs
- This role resides within Equinix’s Enterprise Data & Analytics team, and reports to the Senior Director of Data Product, Go-To-Market
- Own day-to-day product management for assigned data and AI products; manage backlogs, define requirements, and drive delivery
- Translate business needs into detailed product requirements and user stories that engineering can execute against
- Review and assess data models, pipeline designs, and system architectures; identify risks and tradeoffs before they become problems
- Guide engineering toward pragmatic solutions when requirements are ambiguous or shifting
- Identify and manage risks in release delivery and communicate with stakeholder with clarity and mitigation plans
- Build trust-based relationships with business stakeholders by understanding their strategy, pain points, and how data and AI solutions can help
- Set clear expectations, push back on low-value requests, and educate stakeholders on what's possible and what's not
- Frame ambiguous problems, generate hypotheses, and drive to recommendations when there's no clear precedent
- Support data product continuity during a major technology stack migration; ensure critical reporting capabilities remain intact as systems transition over multiple quarters
- Partner with engineering to design interim solutions that bridge old and new data models during migration
- Balance strategic roadmap work with operational responsibilities; protect time for building while keeping the lights on for products in ‘maintenance’ mode
- Manage data quality escalations and work with engineering to resolve issues before they erode user trust
- Build processes that reduce repeat firefighting - if the same thing breaks twice, fix it permanently
- This posting is a new position within our organization
About Equinix
Internet Publishing
10,000+
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company™, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.
About the role
Who you are
- 4-6 years in product management or technical program management or software engineering
- Prior experience as a data analyst, data scientist, software engineer, or similar technical role
- Proficient in SQL- can write complex queries, or programming languages, troubleshoot performance issues, and evaluate whether a proposed data model will serve the use case
- Familiar with ETL/ELT concepts and data pipeline architecture
- Comfortable operating with incomplete information and competing priorities; able to engage credibly with engineering on technical tradeoffs
- Strong communication skills; able to translate between technical and business audiences
- Experience building unified data products that integrate multiple source systems like Salesforce, Gainsight, Oracle, or Cloud platforms
- Experience in migrating data to systems like Salesforce, Gainsight, Oracle, or Cloud platforms
- Experience building customer-facing data products, not just internal tools / dashboards
- Familiarity with data quality challenges: entity resolution, duplicate handling, schema conflicts across systems
- Experience with technology migrations or managing products through significant platform changes
- Hands-on experience with Python for data analysis or prototyping
- Cloud data platform expertise (e.g., BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift)
- Industry background in cloud infrastructure, B2B SaaS, data centers, telecommunications, or multi-cloud networking
- Able to break down ambiguous problems into clear requirements and actionable work items
- Able to quickly T-shirt size level of effort for data and AI initiatives across product and engineering
- Able to effectively translate between engineering and business - simplifying technical tradeoffs for executives while maintaining credibility with engineers
- Takes ownership of outcomes, follows through on commitments and holds partners accountable
What the job involves
- Our data products power the insights, decisions, and operations of teams across Equinix. We build and manage core data platform capabilities, reusable data models, semantic layers, decision-ready dashboards, conversational BI, and custom AI solutions including interconnection recommendation engines, automated data center cage design, etc
- As we scale, we're transforming internal operational and analytical data into unified, governed, high quality assets for Equinix, and we plan to build toward commercializing differentiated data and insights offerings for external customers
- We're looking for a Principal, Product Management to drive the execution of the data and AI product roadmap for our Go-To-Market Organization. This is a hands-on technical product management role that bridges business needs and technical delivery
- You will engage with business stakeholders to understand their pain points, and work closely with engineering and data science teams to translate business needs into well-defined data and AI products, manage delivery timelines, ensure products meet business needs
- This role resides within Equinix’s Enterprise Data & Analytics team, and reports to the Senior Director of Data Product, Go-To-Market
- Own day-to-day product management for assigned data and AI products; manage backlogs, define requirements, and drive delivery
- Translate business needs into detailed product requirements and user stories that engineering can execute against
- Review and assess data models, pipeline designs, and system architectures; identify risks and tradeoffs before they become problems
- Guide engineering toward pragmatic solutions when requirements are ambiguous or shifting
- Identify and manage risks in release delivery and communicate with stakeholder with clarity and mitigation plans
- Build trust-based relationships with business stakeholders by understanding their strategy, pain points, and how data and AI solutions can help
- Set clear expectations, push back on low-value requests, and educate stakeholders on what's possible and what's not
- Frame ambiguous problems, generate hypotheses, and drive to recommendations when there's no clear precedent
- Support data product continuity during a major technology stack migration; ensure critical reporting capabilities remain intact as systems transition over multiple quarters
- Partner with engineering to design interim solutions that bridge old and new data models during migration
- Balance strategic roadmap work with operational responsibilities; protect time for building while keeping the lights on for products in ‘maintenance’ mode
- Manage data quality escalations and work with engineering to resolve issues before they erode user trust
- Build processes that reduce repeat firefighting - if the same thing breaks twice, fix it permanently
- This posting is a new position within our organization
About Equinix
Internet Publishing
10,000+
Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) is the world’s digital infrastructure company™, enabling digital leaders to harness a trusted platform to bring together and interconnect the foundational infrastructure that powers their success. Equinix enables today’s businesses to access all the right places, partners and possibilities they need to accelerate advantage. With Equinix, they can scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value.