Equinix
Equinix
Equinix provides digital infrastructure that helps organizations connect people, platforms, and services across global ecosystems. Its offerings include data centers, colocation, interconnection, ecosystem discovery, and digital services designed to support secure, high-performance connectivity for multicloud environments. By combining low-latency networks, high bandwidth, automation, and infrastructure designed with sustainability in mind, Equinix supports digital transformation for companies in sectors including financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, and commercial markets.

Chief of Staff, Enterprise AI — Equinix (Hybrid)

Partner with Equinix’s Chief AI Officer to shape enterprise AI strategy, governance, investments, and execution. Lead adoption, value realization, operating cadence, and alignment across senior stakeholders.

Description

  • Advise the Chief AI Officer on enterprise AI strategy and delivery
  • Set and communicate AI priorities, strategy, and investment plans
  • Create decision briefs covering recommendations, options, financial impact, and risks
  • Evaluate emerging AI capabilities, competitors, and potential partners
  • Lead strategic programs and special projects from definition through completion
  • Manage the AI leadership team’s planning cadence, portfolio reviews, meetings, and offsites
  • Maintain clear visibility into priorities, dependencies, investments, and outcomes
  • Test value assumptions and separate realized benefits from projected results
  • Coordinate budget and workforce planning with Finance and Human Resources
  • Remove delivery obstacles and escalate significant risks
  • Represent the Chief AI Officer within assigned decision-making authority
  • Build executive and business-owner partnerships that support AI adoption and measurable value
  • Manage cross-functional dependencies and competing demands
  • Develop Board presentations, executive communications, decision memos, and organizational updates
  • Prepare the Chief AI Officer for customer, partner, and industry meetings
  • Work with AI leadership and HR on operating-model changes, workforce priorities, and leadership development
  • Coordinate responsible-AI obligations and open risk decisions with Governance, Security, Legal, and other control teams
  • Promote AI literacy and business change initiatives with organizational leaders
  • Streamline processes and apply AI to reduce manual reporting and avoidable meetings

Requirements

  • At least 10 years in strategy, business operations, consulting, Chief of Staff, product, data, AI, or comparable leadership roles
  • Track record of owning execution and delivering business outcomes
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise AI and technology operating models, including generative AI, agents, shared platforms, adoption challenges, AI economics, and risk
  • Experience delivering complex programs within large, global, matrixed organizations
  • Ability to resolve competing priorities and recover delayed or off-track initiatives
  • Strong financial and analytical judgment
  • Experience building business cases, prioritizing investments, planning budgets, and measuring benefits
  • Ability to produce executive communications, Board materials, and strategic plans with minimal revision
  • Experience advising C-suite leaders through ambiguity and organizational change
  • Credibility with both technical and business stakeholders
  • Sound strategic judgment and comfort making trade-offs
  • Consistent execution discipline and follow-through
  • Strong executive communication capability
  • High discretion, integrity, and trustworthiness
  • Effective influence and collaboration skills
  • Learning agility and productive use of AI tools
  • Ability to perform under pressure and recognize when escalation is necessary

Benefits

  • Employee Assistance Program available to all employees
  • US health, life, disability, and voluntary insurance options
  • US retirement plan contributions
  • US paid time off and paid holidays
  • Canada health care, life, disability, and optional benefit plans
  • Canada Defined Contribution Pension Plan, Group Retirement Savings Plan, and Tax-Free Savings Plan
  • Canada vacation, personal leave, and paid holidays
  • Eligibility for bonus compensation
  • Equity may be available based on the position
  • Disability accommodations available throughout the hiring process

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