Senior Principal Product Manager

Equinix is the world's digital infrastructure company, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet. Job Summary Leads the vision, strategy, and execution for the AI Accelerators capability domain within Equinix Engineering Excellence (E3). This domain offers the connective layer between enterprise AI strategy and the practical operationalization of AI across engineering, product, infrastructure, and operations organizations. The role owns the strategy and roadmap for the foundational AI capabilities, platforms, orchestration frameworks, and reusable agent systems that enable product managers, architects, program managers, operations teams, and other non-developer personas to operate with AI‑native workflows and materially higher leverage. Responsibilities Capability Domain Strategy & Vision Define and evolve the long‑term vision, operating model, and roadmap for the AI Accelerators and AI‑DLC capability domain. Develop AI‑native developer experiences and copilots. Build agentic engineering workflows. Create AI‑assisted software development lifecycle tooling. Develop product management acceleration agents. Generate AI‑driven backlog, roadmap, and requirements. Enable AI‑enabled architecture and dependency analysis. Create intelligent workflow orchestration frameworks. Develop AI workflow governance and safety controls. Establish autonomous and semi‑autonomous remediation and operations. Build prompt, context, and knowledge management frameworks. Create AI telemetry, evaluation, and optimization systems. Support multi‑agent collaboration and orchestration capabilities. Product Portfolio Ownership Own a portfolio of AI‑native platform products, agent frameworks, and AI‑DLC capabilities, including roadmap prioritization, sequencing, dependency management, and adoption strategy. Ensure AI capabilities are reusable, scalable, governable, and embedded into day‑to‑day engineering and product workflows across the enterprise. AI‑Driven Product Management Transformation Define the strategy for AI‑enabled product management and portfolio operations. Scale product leadership effectiveness through agents and workflows. Owns Capabilities For Automated product requirement and PRD generation. Executive narrative and inspection artifact generation. Roadmap synthesis and dependency analysis. Investment and business case generation. Capability decomposition and scoping assistance. Product telemetry summarization and insight generation. Adoption and Voice of Developer insight synthesis. Portfolio prioritization and scenario modeling. AI‑assisted backlog refinement and epic creation. Product operations and governance automation. Executive Inspection Leadership Partner with engineering, architecture, product, and operational leaders to shape and govern the executive inspection process for the AI Accelerators domain. Drive alignment between AI investment strategy, operational readiness, governance, and measurable business outcomes. AI‑Native Developer & Operator Experience Leadership Represent the needs of developers, product managers, architects, SREs, security engineers, and operational teams adopting AI‑native workflows. Partner with Voice of Developer and AI adoption programs to improve usability, trust, discoverability, and operational effectiveness of AI capabilities. Cross‑Functional Platform Leadership Work across E3, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, SRE, Product, and Operations organizations to align AI strategy and execution. Act as the connective layer between enterprise AI strategy, platform architecture, and operational execution. Financial & Investment Planning Develop business cases and investment strategies for AI‑native engineering and operational capabilities. Understand the economics of AI‑assisted engineering, agent orchestration, inference consumption, workflow automation, and organizational productivity scaling. Product & Adoption Metrics Define and govern KPIs for AI Accelerators and AI‑DLC effectiveness. Use telemetry and analytics to continuously improve AI workflows, platform experiences, and organizational effectiveness. Agile Product & Engineering Partnership Partner closely with engineering, architecture, AI platform, and operational leaders to define execution priorities and delivery sequencing. Ensure AI initiatives remain measurable, outcome‑oriented, governable, and aligned to enterprise priorities. Qualifications 15+ years of experience in product management, platform engineering, AI platform strategy, developer tooling, enterprise architecture, or engineering transformation. Experience leading large‑scale AI transformation, developer platform, or intelligent automation initiatives. Strong understanding of AI‑native development workflows, LLM‑based systems, agent orchestration, and enterprise AI governance. Demonstrated experience driving cross‑functional alignment across engineering, product, infrastructure, security, operations, and architecture organizations. Experience building developer and operational platforms that improve productivity, scalability, and organizational leverage. Strong executive communication and strategic planning skills. Experience with Agile product operating models and platform portfolio management. Familiarity with AI safety, model operations, prompt engineering, workflow orchestration, and human‑in‑the‑loop operational models preferred. Bachelor's degree preferred. 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. Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form. Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affi‑vative Action employer. 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