Principal Product Manager, Metal Cloud - Burnaby, Canada - Equinix

Equinix

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Burnaby, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Description

Principal Product Manager, Equinix Metal Cloud Networking

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks.

Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments.

With Equinix Metal, customers can rapidly deploy automated single-tenant infrastructure and interact with 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and service providers.

Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

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.

We hire hardworking people who thrive on solving challenging problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, and try new approaches, as we grow our product portfolio with new software and network architecture solutions.

We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary
Defines, develops and manages the lifecycle of a product from concept to launch to end of life.

Responsibilities

Provide business leadership for Equinix's Edge Infrastructure networking platform, as an enabler for all networking products and services. This includes Internet peering and transit, multicloud interconnection with collocation and cloud environments, and networking roadmaps for Metal and Network Edge
Execute the Equinix Metal strategy to power the world's digital leaders with digital infrastructure, including opportunity analysis, planning, GTM (GotoMarket) strategy, execution, and launch
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
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 offerings, features, 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
Define metrics that will be used to inform product success and help drive user experience improvements
Keep GTM and supportability frontofmind in designing product offerings
Design product training curriculum; participates in crossfunctional training and meetings
Run the business: analyze and optimize value chain activities; establish and monitor KPIs; implements course corrections as needed. Maintain a keen awareness of budgeting (Capex & Opex) and P&L for the Edge Infrastructure network platform and services
Other responsibilities include supporting market assessments with qualitative and quantitative research; validating the problem space; sizing the market; meaningfully segmenting it; determining segment attractiveness, developing theory of competitive advantage and implications for the value chain; create business case and impacts to EBITDA. Research competitors and verticals; prepares reports related to financial position, competitive position, and market potential

Qualifications

10+ years of combined experience in software development with at least 5 years in a product management role
Bachelor's degree in CS, EE or relevant field of study, MBA preferred
A proven record of accomplishment taking complex software networking products to market from early ideation, prototype, through General Availability, including gotomarket motions
Must include references to press releases, blogs, industry publications, podcasts, or webinars you participated in as a SME (Subject Matter Expert)
Experience building complex networking software at scale (e.g., VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), load balancers, firewalls, IPAM) with a focus on resilience, and automation of well tested production ready software
Must have an endtoend understanding of Cloud/multicloud networking including L2-L3 networking technologies, such as MPLS, Segment Routing, and EVPN/VXLAN, at cloud scale
Experience in designing and implementing API interfaces using REST
Data Center networks experience with collocation, IP peering and transit; Network hardware and Operating System development; network service orchestration; virtualization, networking, SDN, NFV, management and orch