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Job Summary
Leads the vision, strategy, and execution for the Platform Foundations capability domain within Equinix Engineering Excellence (E3). Owns the product portfolio and long-term roadmap for the foundational platform capabilities that enable secure, portable, scalable, and AI-native workload delivery across hybrid infrastructure environments.
The Platform Foundations domain is responsible for creating the underlying abstractions, controls, automation frameworks, and developer experiences that standardize how infrastructure and workloads are defined, deployed, governed, and operated across cloud, colocation, and on-premises environments.
This leader acts as the single-threaded product owner for the domain strategy, investment priorities, executive inspection narrative, and customer adoption outcomes. They work cross-functionally with engineering, architecture, infrastructure, security, SRE, AI platform teams, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable improvements in developer productivity, operational resilience, portability, governance, and infrastructure efficiency.
The role requires balancing long-term platform architecture with practical adoption strategies, ensuring that foundational capabilities are discoverable, consumable, and integrated into developer workflows rather than operating as standalone infrastructure programs.
Responsibilities
Capability Domain Strategy & Vision
Defines and evolves the long-term vision, operating model, and roadmap for the Platform Foundations capability domain, including:
Unified environment abstraction layers across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructure
Infrastructure Control Plane capabilities
Workload portability and placement frameworks
Runtime adapters and deployment orchestration
Infrastructure policy, governance, and guardrails
Declarative infrastructure and workload intent models
Foundational APIs, platform contracts, and capability discovery services
Agent-ready infrastructure interfaces and AI-native platform enablement
Establishes strategic direction aligned to Equinix engineering productivity, reliability, cost efficiency, and AI transformation goals
Product Portfolio Ownership
Owns a portfolio of foundational platform products and capabilities, including roadmap prioritization, sequencing, dependency management, and adoption strategy. Ensures the portfolio delivers reusable platform leverage across all engineering organizations
Executive Inspection Leadership
Partners with engineering leaders to shape and govern the executive inspection process for the Platform Foundations domain. Drives alignment between engineering execution and executive-level business outcomes
Customer & Developer Experience Leadership
Represents the needs of developers, infrastructure engineers, SREs, security teams, and platform consumers. Partners with Voice of Developer and adoption programs to continuously refine platform usability and discoverability
Cross-Functional Platform Leadership
Works across E3, Infrastructure, Security, SRE, Architecture, and Delivery organizations to align platform strategy and execution. Acts as a connective layer between business priorities, platform architecture, and engineering execution
Financial & Investment Planning
Develops business cases and investment strategies for foundational platform capabilities. Understands platform economics, including cost-to-serve, workload efficiency, infrastructure utilization, and engineering leverage models
Product & Adoption Metrics
Defines and governs KPIs for Platform Foundations adoption and effectiveness. Uses telemetry and analytics to continuously improve platform experiences and prioritize roadmap investments
Agile Product & Engineering Partnership
Partners closely with engineering and architecture leaders to define execution priorities and delivery sequencing. Ensures platform engineering efforts remain outcome-oriented and aligned to enterprise priorities
Qualifications
15+ years of experience in product management, platform engineering, infrastructure strategy, developer platforms, or enterprise architecture
Experience leading large-scale platform or infrastructure transformation initiatives
Strong understanding of hybrid cloud, infrastructure platforms, developer tooling, and operational reliability models
Demonstrated experience driving cross-functional alignment across engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations organizations
Experience building platform products that improve developer productivity and operational scalability
Strong executive communication and strategic planning skills
Experience with Agile product operating models and platform portfolio management
Familiarity with AI-native development workflows, infrastructure automation, and agent-enabled systems preferred
Bachelor’s degree preferred
The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:
United States - Chicago Office CHO : 195,000 - 293,000 USD / Annual
Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location.The pay range shown is based on our compensation structure in place at the time of posting and may be updated periodically based on business needs. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.
The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.
Equinix Benefits
As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. We ensure all your benefits are in line with our core values: competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected and efficient. We keep them competitive within the current marketplace to ensure we’re providing you with the best package possible. So, wherever you are in your career and life, you’ll be able to enhance your experience and bring your whole self to work.
Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.

US Benefits: - Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members. - Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future. - Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific plan or program terms.
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