Director, Onsite Power Generation

Equinix; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Director of Onsite Power Generation to lead the enterprise strategy for onsite, behind-the-meter, and co-sited power across its global data center portfolio. You will define how power can accelerate capacity, resilience, and sustainability while managing cost and risk.

The role requires coordinating with Energy, Design & Construction, Operations, Finance, and Legal to implement a consistent operating model and scalable project pipeline across regions.

Qualifications

• Experience in data center energy or mission-critical infrastructure.
• Leadership of cross-functional programs and complex initiatives.
• Experience building enterprise strategy and operating models across regions.

Responsibilities

• Own and refine the global onsite power generation strategy.
• Develop and maintain playbooks for site screening, architectures, and contracting.
• Partner with regional teams to adapt strategy to local market conditions.
• Establish a global pipeline and governance cadence for opportunities.
• Ensure OSPG solutions integrate with data center planning and operations.
• Standardize evaluation and contracting for various power technologies and arrangements.
• Lead strategic partnerships and negotiations with developers, utilities, and EPCs.
• Set standards for total cost of ownership, risk allocation, and performance guarantees.
• Define clear roles and escalation paths across global teams.
• Advise senior leaders on portfolio choices and roadmap.

Skills

Data center energy

Distributed generation

Infrastructure strategy

Cross-functional leadership

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.

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 Director, Onsite Power Generation will establish and lead Equinix's enterprise strategy for onsite, behind-the-meter, and co-sited power generation across its global data center portfolio. This role will define where and how onsite power can accelerate capacity deployment, increase resiliency, bridge grid constraints, improve economics, and support sustainability objectives in mission-critical environments.

The Director will build a globally consistent OSPG operating model-including technology-screening criteria, stage gates, commercial frameworks, design principles, governance, and execution handoffs-and partner closely with regional Energy, Design & Construction, Operations, Capacity, Sustainability, Finance, Procurement, and Legal teams to implement it. Success requires a data center operator's mindset: balancing speed-to-power, uptime, scalability, redundancy, total cost of ownership, emissions, permitting, interconnection, and operational risk while converting strategy into a repeatable pipeline of executable projects.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise OSPG strategy: Own and continuously refine the global onsite power generation strategy, translating enterprise growth, speed-to-power, resiliency, sustainability, and cost objectives into clear priorities, technology pathways, and investment theses.
• Global standards and playbooks: Develop and maintain a consistent OSPG playbook covering site screening, reference architectures, technology qualification, commercial models, stage gates, risk thresholds, governance, approvals, contracting, commissioning, and asset-management handoffs.
• Regional implementation: Partner with regional teams to adapt the enterprise strategy to local market, regulatory, permitting, fuel, interconnection, and operating conditions while ensuring core processes, decision criteria, controls, and deliverables remain consistent within and across regions.
• Portfolio development and governance: Establish a global pipeline and governance cadence to identify, prioritize, and advance onsite, co-sited, and distributed generation opportunities against capacity, schedule, resiliency, economics, carbon, and execution-readiness criteria.
• Data center integration: Ensure OSPG solutions integrate with data center campus planning, utility capacity, electrical topology, redundancy architecture, controls, commissioning, load ramps, customer commitments, and critical-facility operating requirements.
• Technology and commercial frameworks: Standardize evaluation and contracting approaches for fuel cells, gas turbines, reciprocating engines, linear generators, and battery technologies, including PPAs, energy-as-a-service, tolling, capacity, lease, and ownership structures.
• Strategic partnerships and negotiations: Lead strategic relationships and complex negotiations with developers, IPPs, OEMs, EPCs, fuel suppliers, utilities, investors, and other counterparties; create scalable partnerships that can support multi-site and multi-region deployment.
• Business case and risk management: Set standards for total-cost-of-ownership analysis and risk allocation, including availability, performance guarantees, liquidated damages, credit support, fuel and emissions exposure, change in law, outage remedies, schedule security, stranded-asset risk, and customer or revenue impacts.
• Cross-functional operating model: Define decision rights, roles, interfaces, and escalation paths across global and regional Energy, Design & Construction, Operations, Capacity, Sustainability, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and Asset Management teams.
• Executive leadership and market intelligence: Advise senior leaders on OSPG portfolio choices, capital allocation, strategic risks, market developments, and emerging technologies; communicate a clear roadmap, performance dashboard, and recommended actions.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Progressive experience in data center energy, mission-critical infrastructure, distributed generation, power project development, infrastructure strategy, or a related field, including leadership of complex cross-functional programs. Typically 12+ years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience building an enterprise strategy, operating model, playbook, or center-of-excellence capability and driving consistent adoption across multiple regions or business units.