Senior Corporate Strategy Leader

Equinix; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 186,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Senior Corporate Strategy leader to shape and direct multi-year strategy execution. You will translate long-term aims into actionable roadmaps and work with the CSO and executives to align capital, people, and initiatives across the enterprise.

This role is pivotal in balancing organic growth with strategic ventures and requires broad influence across functions and regions. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in enterprise planning, complex financial modeling, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or higher from an accredited institution.
• 7+ years’ professional experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, or private equity. Technology industry experience preferred but not required
• Experience in driving work within an enterprise-level strategic planning process
• Repeated experience building complex financial models, forecasting corporate performance and decision implications across multi-year horizons at large enterprises (e.g., Fortune 500, Forbes Global 2000). Preference for experience with capex intensive industries
• Proven track-record in framing and leading project management of cross-functional strategy initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to assess strategic initiatives, challenge initiative owners constructively, and drive execution feasibility
• Strong influencing skills, including building stakeholder relationships with senior leaders and demonstrated ability to shape strategic direction without direct authority
• Proven track record in providing novel and innovative solutions to complex or difficult strategic issues
• Ability to independently draft and present client deliverables, recommendations, and communications strategies
• Deep analytical, problem-solving, and data-centric decision-making capabilities
• Self-motivated with a demonstrated ability to drive work through ambiguity in a dynamic, results-oriented environment

Responsibilities

• Shaping enterprise strategy — Connect the dots across long and short-term enterprise-wide strategies to drive coherent choices; requires an in-depth understanding of Equinix’s market position and growth levers across multiple time horizons
• Support the Corporate Strategy team and adjacent functions in designing and implementing improvements to the enterprise-level strategic planning process.
• Act as a key thought partner to the CSO and functional leaders, contributing insights on business, technology, and operational strategy
• Work collaboratively across functions and regions to prioritize and manage a portfolio of critical strategic initiatives on an on-going basis
• Managing strategic decisioning — Serve as a strategic advisor to senior executives, providing thought leadership and constructive challenge to optimize business initiatives
• Oversee financial and business performance analysis, ensuring data-driven decision-making and setting of clear KPIs
• Work closely with other central corporate functions to establish and manage efficient communications and discussions with the executive team on critical strategy topics
• Defining the enterprise operating plan — Collaborate with central functions to build, maintain, and leverage financial models to make key strategic decisions and integrate implications into long-term forecasts
• Synthesize long-term market forces and short-term strategic decisions to continuously evaluate growth drivers
• Monitor execution performance against strategic decisions and assumptions to diagnose potential challenges and recommend course corrections
• Supporting capital allocation and strategic ventures — Partner with enterprise leadership to help guide Equinix's capital deployment in support of the enterprise operating plan of record; requires close coordination across strategy, finance, and investment stakeholders
• Support the development of pipeline strategy and capital allocation frameworks that inform where and how Equinix invests across its portfolio
• Bring an enterprise strategy lens to key investment trade-offs, ensuring capital deployment decisions remain aligned with long-term growth priorities and return expectations
• Support the identification, evaluation, and development of strategic venture opportunities that extend Equinix's growth beyond organic levers, contributing to the strategic and financial thesis underpinning new venture opportunities in close partnership with Corporate Development and other functional leaders

Skills

Bachelor’s Degree

7+ years experience

Strategy planning

Financial modeling

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Data-driven decisions

Ambiguity management

Problem solving

Independent drafting

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree or higher

Tools

Forecasting

Excel

Job description

Equinix is seeking a Senior Corporate Strategy leader to shape and direct multi-year strategy execution. You will translate long-term aims into actionable roadmaps and work with the CSO and executives to align capital, people, and initiatives across the enterprise.

This role is pivotal in balancing organic growth with strategic ventures and requires broad influence across functions and regions. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in enterprise planning, complex financial modeling, and