About the role
Who you are
- 8+ years of project management experience, with significant exposure to leading PMOs or project portfolios in corporate development, Joint venture/M&A or capital markets
- Demonstrated experience in establishing project management best practices and governance
- Proven track record of executive stakeholder management and communication
- CPA qualification or equivalent professional accounting designation is highly preferred
- Experience collaborating with external advisors, including investment banks, legal counsel, tax advisors, and consultants
- Advanced proficiency with planning and portfolio management tools (e.g., Smartsheets, Microsoft Project, Jira)
- Project Management certification required
What the job involves
- The Senior Project Manager leads the xScale Finance PMO, establishing best practices, governance frameworks, and standards for project delivery
- This role is accountable for the overall project portfolio, resource planning, and executive-level stakeholder management
- In addition to these leadership responsibilities, the Senior Project Manager directly manages and executes high-impact finance initiatives across joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and capital market projects, ensuring successful delivery from initiation through completion
- Provide leadership and ensure best practices, methodologies, and governance are consistently applied within the xScale Finance PMO
- Oversee the entire project portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment, prioritization, and resource optimization
- Drive resource planning and allocation for the project portfolio, proactively addressing constraints and capacity issues
- Support project managers in ensuring consistency and excellence in project delivery and standards
- Ensure frameworks for project tracking, reporting, and risk management applied consistently across all projects
- Manage relationships and communications with senior leaders’ stakeholders, providing regular updates and insights
- Manage end-to-end delivery of strategic xScale JV finance projects, ensuring structured planning, disciplined execution, and timely completion of milestones
- Coordinate project activities for joint ventures, refinancing, and capital markets transactions, working closely with treasury and capital markets teams
- Maintain project governance and tracking mechanisms, ensuring decisions, deliverables, and dependencies are documented and monitored
- Lead due diligence activities across financial, tax, legal, and operational workstreams
- Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, timelines, and risk registers
- Communicate project objectives, progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders, including executive-level reporting
- Apply advanced project management methodologies and tools (e.g., PMP, PMI, PRINCE2)
- Plan and manage cutover activities to ensure seamless transitions and readiness for transaction close
About Equinix
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
- 8+ years of project management experience, with significant exposure to leading PMOs or project portfolios in corporate development, Joint venture/M&A or capital markets
- Demonstrated experience in establishing project management best practices and governance
- Proven track record of executive stakeholder management and communication
- CPA qualification or equivalent professional accounting designation is highly preferred
- Experience collaborating with external advisors, including investment banks, legal counsel, tax advisors, and consultants
- Advanced proficiency with planning and portfolio management tools (e.g., Smartsheets, Microsoft Project, Jira)
- Project Management certification required
What the job involves
- The Senior Project Manager leads the xScale Finance PMO, establishing best practices, governance frameworks, and standards for project delivery
- This role is accountable for the overall project portfolio, resource planning, and executive-level stakeholder management
- In addition to these leadership responsibilities, the Senior Project Manager directly manages and executes high-impact finance initiatives across joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and capital market projects, ensuring successful delivery from initiation through completion
- Provide leadership and ensure best practices, methodologies, and governance are consistently applied within the xScale Finance PMO
- Oversee the entire project portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment, prioritization, and resource optimization
- Drive resource planning and allocation for the project portfolio, proactively addressing constraints and capacity issues
- Support project managers in ensuring consistency and excellence in project delivery and standards
- Ensure frameworks for project tracking, reporting, and risk management applied consistently across all projects
- Manage relationships and communications with senior leaders’ stakeholders, providing regular updates and insights
- Manage end-to-end delivery of strategic xScale JV finance projects, ensuring structured planning, disciplined execution, and timely completion of milestones
- Coordinate project activities for joint ventures, refinancing, and capital markets transactions, working closely with treasury and capital markets teams
- Maintain project governance and tracking mechanisms, ensuring decisions, deliverables, and dependencies are documented and monitored
- Lead due diligence activities across financial, tax, legal, and operational workstreams
- Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, timelines, and risk registers
- Communicate project objectives, progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders, including executive-level reporting
- Apply advanced project management methodologies and tools (e.g., PMP, PMI, PRINCE2)
- Plan and manage cutover activities to ensure seamless transitions and readiness for transaction close
About Equinix
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.