Principal PM, Ethernet & Metro Connect

Equinix; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 155,000 - 233,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equinix Benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the Fabric EPL/EVPL ethernet services portfolio, including Metro Connect. You will drive strategy, ROI, and cross-functional execution to elevate customer experience and accelerate adoption across global metros.

You will define roadmaps, build business cases, and engage with engineering, sales, and customers to deliver high-speed connectivity and advanced service types.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product mgmt experience, including meaningful ownership of a cloud infrastructure, networking, digital platform, or carrier connectivity products.
• Hands-on familiarity with enterprise and cloud WAN architecture - DCI, SD-WAN overlays, BGP, cloud on-ramp connectivity
• Track record of owning a P&L or product line financials - pricing, margin analysis, investment modeling
• Experience writing engineering-grade product specs that go directly into development sprints without translation overhead
• Ability to operate at the intersection of deep technical detail and C-suite business narrative - comfortably shifting registers

Responsibilities

• Define the 3-year vision and quarterly roadmap for Fabric EPL/EVPL virtual connections, port and LAG architectures, service tokens, and Equinix Fabric Metro Connect
• Lead the strategic convergence of Fabric virtual connections and packet-based Metro Connect, simplifying customer choice while increasing attach, adoption, and portfolio value
• Shape the MACsec, QoS, and resiliency roadmap in partnership with engineering and network architecture
• Own the Fabric ethernet and Fabric Metro Connect P&L - revenue, attach rate, margin, and competitive pricing
• 7+ years of product mgmt experience, including meaningful ownership of a cloud infrastructure, networking, digital platform, or carrier connectvity products.Build and defend investment cases for major roadmap bets, including capacity expansion, new metro launches, and service type additions
• Partner with Finance and Sales to model WTP (willingness to pay), segment economics, and pricing architecture
• Track and report on product KPIs: port utilization, virtual connection growth, average bandwidth per connection, and customer retention
• Author precise, engineering-ready PRDs for ethernet service capabilities - VLAN handling, L2CP behavior, redundancy plane design, LAG provisioning, bandwidth tiers
• Be the internal authority on carrier ethernet standards (MEF E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree; 802.1Q, 802.1ad QinQ, MACsec, LACP)
• Work closely with network architecture on PE node topology, port provisioning, and the physical-to-virtual service binding model
• Engage deeply with the API-first vision - define the OpenAPI surface for ethernet services consumed by enterprise and cloud customers programmatically
• Conduct structured discovery with enterprise network architects, cloud on-ramp teams, and carrier customers
• Own the competitive lens on carrier ethernet peers and adjacent NaaS providers
• Partner with Sales Engineering and Solutions Architecture on strategic deals requiring custom ethernet service design
• Represent the ethernet portfolio at customer advisory boards, industry forums (MEF, PTC), and external events

Skills

Product mgmt

P&L ownership

Networking

Carrier ethernet

Pricing

Engineering specs

Executive communication

Tools

OpenAPI

MEF standards

LACP

Job description

Equinix is seeking a Principal Product Manager to own the Fabric EPL/EVPL ethernet services portfolio, including Metro Connect. You will drive strategy, ROI, and cross-functional execution to elevate customer experience and accelerate adoption across global metros.

You will define roadmaps, build business cases, and engage with engineering, sales, and customers to deliver high-speed connectivity and advanced service types.