Director, Strategic Account Operations Service Manager

Equinix; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix seeks a Service Management Director to act as the primary operational interface for our largest global strategic accounts. You will advocate for customers, drive outcomes, and coordinate across Customer Success, Customer Experience, xScale, DC Ops, and account teams to raise service levels.

You will lead operational initiatives, ensure consistency, and scale processes based on feedback, reviews and lessons learned.

Qualifications

• Strong technical and operational background in data center infrastructure.
• Understanding of operations processes, service management and best practices.
• Excellent oral and written communications, customer-facing.
• Ability to drive outcomes and stability for top accounts.
• Willingness to travel and provide after-hours support.
• Comfort with on-call responsibilities including weekends/holidays.

Responsibilities

• Act as escalation point for service impacting incidents and customer expectations.
• Lead post-mortem analysis, preventive measures, and service improvement plans.
• Advocate for customers balancing needs with operational constraints.
• Serve as SME for internal departments on contractual obligations and SLOs.
• Support onboarding, readiness programs and projects for top accounts.
• Drive alignment between customer and Equinix Operations during changing priorities.
• Respond to information requests, audits, and queries from customers.
• Participate in customer meetings and workshops to present updates and plans.
• Assist Data Center teams with complex customer demands.

Skills

Technical expertise

Operations experience

Communication skills

Relationship building

Travel & on-call

Education

Bachelor's degree in data center field

Job description

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

Who are we?

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.

A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.

A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact.You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you—because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.

Job Summary

The Service Management Director (SMD) is the primary operational interface post sale to our largest global strategic accounts by serving as the customer advocate to drive a superior and differentiated customer experience.

Operating and collaborating cross functionally to raise awareness, drive outcomes, and resolve issues impacting our top customers. The SMD works in close partnership with the Customer Success, Customer Experience, xScale, Data Center Ops, GOX pillars, Escalation Management, Strategic Service Management, OIRT, and Account teams.

The SMD drives operational alignment, consistency and scalability across functional teams by actively driving operational initiatives and influencing change within the business based on operational reviews, customer feedback and lessons learned.

Responsibilities

• Act as an escalation point, sometimes after hours for service impacting incidents, and escalations when standard operatingprocesses are not meeting customer expectations. Once engaged, serve as primary customer interface for operational lifecycle issues, leveraging necessary resources in other departments to address ongoing issues
• Partner with Operations to identify, create, implement, and track post-mortem analysis and preventive measures, and taking the lead in presenting that information to the customer. When required SMD will lead or actively contribute to, Service Improvement Plans as a key stakeholder
• Serve as customer advocate who can balance customer needs and operational requirements to effectively solve for challenges that the customer is experiencing
• Trusted technical resource and Subject Matter Expert for internal company departments for assigned customer base with extensive knowledge in customer contractual obligations, and internal SLOs and operational processes, to assist operational and sales teams in setting appropriate customer expectations based on defined Service Level criteria. The individual must be able to understand the customer needs/requests and balance those against operational cost, risk, scalability, and impact to other customers, etc.
• Support xScale onboarding, operational readiness, programs and projects
• Drive consistency and alignment between the customer and Equinix Operations, pivoting as necessary to changes in customer direction and priorities
• Support customer operational requests for information, audits, and queries
• Active participation and presentation during customer meetings (MBRs, QBRs, CBRs), and workshops
• Support Data Center teams in handling complex or challenging demands from the customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or extensive job experience in the data center industry with solid working knowledge in Power, Cooling and Network infrastructure
• Very strong technical and operational background and understanding of troubleshooting infrastructure systems and breaking down complex problems
• Thorough understanding of operations processes, service management, industry best practices, and systems used across internal departments
• Very strong relationship building and collaboration skills internally and externally with high level of trust and competency as the backbone of delivery
• Ability to drive outcomes and results that add value
• Excellent oral and written communications skills internally and customer-facing
• Some business travel and after-hours support
• Must be willing to work on-call via mobile phone, including weekends and holiday
• Highly motivated, self-starter who can thrive independently or in a team environment

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This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.