Vice President, Head of Digital
Toronto, New York, Denver
$260,000 - $414,000/yearly
C Level
Top Benefits
Excellent health care and counseling plans
Paid vacations and holidays
Encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
About the role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- 15+ years of experience in product management, digital transformation or technology leadership with at least 5 yrs in a senior leadership role
- Deep understanding of global infrastructure operations, data center environments, and related operational systems and tools
- Proven experience delivering digital solutions for mission-critical environments with high demands on uptime, security, and compliance
- Familiarity with infrastructure management platforms, DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management), CMDB, automation tools, and real-time telemetry systems
- Skills and Attributes
- Strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset and a passion for innovation
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and partner effectively with executive stakeholders, especially in complex, matrixed organizations
- Excellent problem-solving ability to understand business stakeholder needs, drive prioritization, and deliver systems
- Adept at inspiring behavior change through motivating teams, planning initiatives, designating priorities, and being decisive when faced with ambiguity
- Ability to provide thought leadership, think strategically and effectively communicate vision and influence across the organization
- Ability to be data driven, decisive, execution-focused and results-oriented to ensure strategy translates to outcomes
- Leadership characteristics
- Product / engineering mindset with passion and experience in major transformations at a global scale across cultures, in a matrix driven org
- Exceptional leader who excels at driving bold and meaningful change at scale and across multiple dimensions with a heavy outcome focused mindset
- Cultivates Innovation – Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive and creates new and better ways for the areas to be successful. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation
What the job involves
- The VP, Head of Digital – Corporate Functions is a forward-thinking, enterprise-oriented Product Executive responsible for leading the digital transformation of corporate functions, including Finance, People, Legal, and Business Operations
- This executive will serve as the strategic partner to function leaders, with full accountability for delivering modern, user-centric digital capabilities that streamline operations, enhance compliance, elevate employee and stakeholder experiences, and enable business agility
-
- This leader will oversee a portfolio of enterprise products and platforms, driving the modernization and integration of core systems while introducing innovative solutions that future-proof the company's corporate foundation
- Partner with Corporate Function leaders to co-create and deliver a unified digital strategy that supports strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities across Finance, People, Legal, and Business Operations as well as End User Support and Digital Workplace in support of the employee experience
- Shape the long-term vision for enterprise platforms, employee experience, automation, data governance, and risk/compliance enablement.
- Ensure technology investments align with broader enterprise architecture, data, and innovation strategies
- Product Ownership & Execution
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for a portfolio of enterprise applications and digital tools—including ERP, HCM, payroll, legal management systems, procurement, and workflow automation platforms, IT Help Desk and Digital Workplace.
- Build and lead a high-impact product team responsible for designing, delivering, and optimizing capabilities that improve accuracy, compliance, efficiency, and experience.
- Prioritize investments based on business value, strategic impact, and stakeholder input, ensuring cross-functional transparency and alignment
- Stakeholder Engagement & Value Realization
- Serve as the digital thought partner and liaison between corporate function leaders and the Digital & Innovation team.
- Understand user needs across business units, functions, and geographies to ensure digital products drive measurable improvements in service delivery and operational effectiveness.
- Lead change management and user adoption strategies to ensure successful implementation and business value realization.
- Innovation / Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities for automation, intelligent workflows, predictive analytics, and self-service capabilities to simplify processes and enhance decision-making.
- Foster innovation in areas such as workforce planning, financial forecasting, compliance tracking, and operational service delivery.
- Keep pace with emerging enterprise technologies and regulatory trends to ensure platforms remain compliant, modern, and resilient
- People Leadership
- Build coach and expand the customer enablement teams to support business success
- Leadership Characteristics of the role
- Is a transformational leader who excels at driving bold and meaningful change at scale and across multiple dimensions.
- Leads with a global mindset, across cultures, in a highly matrixed, relationship and consensus-driven environment.
- Cultivates Innovation – Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation
Benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
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.
Vice President, Head of Digital
Toronto, New York, Denver
$260,000 - $414,000/yearly
C Level
Top Benefits
Excellent health care and counseling plans
Paid vacations and holidays
Encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
About the role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred
- 15+ years of experience in product management, digital transformation or technology leadership with at least 5 yrs in a senior leadership role
- Deep understanding of global infrastructure operations, data center environments, and related operational systems and tools
- Proven experience delivering digital solutions for mission-critical environments with high demands on uptime, security, and compliance
- Familiarity with infrastructure management platforms, DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management), CMDB, automation tools, and real-time telemetry systems
- Skills and Attributes
- Strategic thinker with a customer-centric mindset and a passion for innovation
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and partner effectively with executive stakeholders, especially in complex, matrixed organizations
- Excellent problem-solving ability to understand business stakeholder needs, drive prioritization, and deliver systems
- Adept at inspiring behavior change through motivating teams, planning initiatives, designating priorities, and being decisive when faced with ambiguity
- Ability to provide thought leadership, think strategically and effectively communicate vision and influence across the organization
- Ability to be data driven, decisive, execution-focused and results-oriented to ensure strategy translates to outcomes
- Leadership characteristics
- Product / engineering mindset with passion and experience in major transformations at a global scale across cultures, in a matrix driven org
- Exceptional leader who excels at driving bold and meaningful change at scale and across multiple dimensions with a heavy outcome focused mindset
- Cultivates Innovation – Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive and creates new and better ways for the areas to be successful. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation
What the job involves
- The VP, Head of Digital – Corporate Functions is a forward-thinking, enterprise-oriented Product Executive responsible for leading the digital transformation of corporate functions, including Finance, People, Legal, and Business Operations
- This executive will serve as the strategic partner to function leaders, with full accountability for delivering modern, user-centric digital capabilities that streamline operations, enhance compliance, elevate employee and stakeholder experiences, and enable business agility
-
- This leader will oversee a portfolio of enterprise products and platforms, driving the modernization and integration of core systems while introducing innovative solutions that future-proof the company's corporate foundation
- Partner with Corporate Function leaders to co-create and deliver a unified digital strategy that supports strategic, operational, and regulatory priorities across Finance, People, Legal, and Business Operations as well as End User Support and Digital Workplace in support of the employee experience
- Shape the long-term vision for enterprise platforms, employee experience, automation, data governance, and risk/compliance enablement.
- Ensure technology investments align with broader enterprise architecture, data, and innovation strategies
- Product Ownership & Execution
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for a portfolio of enterprise applications and digital tools—including ERP, HCM, payroll, legal management systems, procurement, and workflow automation platforms, IT Help Desk and Digital Workplace.
- Build and lead a high-impact product team responsible for designing, delivering, and optimizing capabilities that improve accuracy, compliance, efficiency, and experience.
- Prioritize investments based on business value, strategic impact, and stakeholder input, ensuring cross-functional transparency and alignment
- Stakeholder Engagement & Value Realization
- Serve as the digital thought partner and liaison between corporate function leaders and the Digital & Innovation team.
- Understand user needs across business units, functions, and geographies to ensure digital products drive measurable improvements in service delivery and operational effectiveness.
- Lead change management and user adoption strategies to ensure successful implementation and business value realization.
- Innovation / Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities for automation, intelligent workflows, predictive analytics, and self-service capabilities to simplify processes and enhance decision-making.
- Foster innovation in areas such as workforce planning, financial forecasting, compliance tracking, and operational service delivery.
- Keep pace with emerging enterprise technologies and regulatory trends to ensure platforms remain compliant, modern, and resilient
- People Leadership
- Build coach and expand the customer enablement teams to support business success
- Leadership Characteristics of the role
- Is a transformational leader who excels at driving bold and meaningful change at scale and across multiple dimensions.
- Leads with a global mindset, across cultures, in a highly matrixed, relationship and consensus-driven environment.
- Cultivates Innovation – Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Fosters a climate where innovation can thrive. Encourages innovative risk taking and embraces failure as a part of innovation
Benefits
- Equinix employees receive excellent health care and counseling plans that vary by country to ensure the well-being of you and your family. We offer paid vacations and holidays and encourage community involvement year-round via volunteer opportunities
- Spending time with your loved ones and taking care of your family are important. Equinix provides a range of country-specific programs that ensure you have the resources needed to thrive and manage your family’s needs
- Equinix offers different programs to help you build your financial security, make charitable donations and seek additional education. In many countries we also offer a flexible employee stock purchase plan
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.