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Head of IT PMO at Equinix

Posted in General Business 30+ days ago.

Type: Full-Time
Location: Sunnyvale, California





Job Description:

Head of IT PMO

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.  

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

Job Summary: The Senior Director, Head of PMO, is responsible for leading and transforming a technology focused Project Management Office comprised of portfolio leaders, projects managers and scrum leads across a portfolio of strategic initiatives and for ensuring that IT programs and projects are planned, managed, and governed in a consistent, open, and well-adapted manner. The position requires an experienced program management professional with the right mix of relevant experience and skills, an ability to flex between the strategic and the tactical, outstanding verbal and written communication skills, and a high level of energy and flexibility to get things done and thrive in a fast-paced, team-oriented technology development environment. The chosen candidate will be a program management leader who embodies Equinix’s leadership principles of leading by example, communicating openly, enabling and inspiring others, excelling with partners, acting decisively, and collaborating effectively.

As the leader of the PMO, the candidate should have validated expertise in transformations, designing strategy and implementing end to end processes on strategic portfolio management and is focused on delivering exceptional results with strong business partnership and customer satisfaction. This individual should have extensive experience in leading complex, global initiatives involving organizational change and business value realization.

S(he) will be responsible for hiring top talent and keeping the organization highly engaged and motivated, delivering exceptional results.  The ability to work across functions and teams will allow him/her to ensure alignment of priorities and goals, drive results and foster a culture and environment to achieve excellence and innovation.

Responsibilities

Technology Project Planning and Execution


  • Leads the PMO to ensure IT programs and projects are planned, managed, governed and executed in a consistent, transparent, and disciplined manner to meet organizational goals and requirements


  • Transforms and leads a strategic process for the input and prioritization of business led technology initiatives; works with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects and programs


  • Directs IT’s Agile Transformation


  • Maintains and adjusts as needed the IT PMO strategy and lead the design and implementation of common project management methodology, inclusive of standards and tools to drive and facilitate the successful delivery of projects


  • Leads the execution of IT PMO governance and reporting framework to provide a holistic view of all departmental project activity


  • Leads the definition, documentation and publishing of metrics around portfolio health


  • Promotes and practices a change mindset to invigorate transformative initiatives and ensure successful implementation across teams


  • Is the highest-level escalation point within the team for highly complex issues


Stakeholder Management and Communication


  • Strong executive presence with ability to manage change in ambiguous and conflicting environments.


  • Builds relationships with company executives and VPs


  • Communicates major project/program direction or strategic changes


  • Responsible for providing objective and comprehensive input to senior leadership and executive decision makers


  • Solicits stakeholder input to define comprehensive improvement plans that are simple, consistent and drive standardization and predictability


  • Creates and drives broad partner communications with respect to portfolio status and budget utilization

People Management


  • Models the Equinix Culture and Values


  • Provides leadership and direction to the team, through senior managers and directors


  • Is accountable for the performance and results of direct reports and maybe a larger or multiple teams, perhaps global


  • Responsible for succession planning recommendations and contributing to and driving the people development strategy


  • Responsible for performance management of team members, including disciplinary actions and hire/fire decisions/ recommendations


  • Responsible for the annual employee assessment and rewards process including assessments and Total Rewards allocations of direct reports and reviewing and approving manager recommendations


  • Responsible for talent development, including quarterly conversations, career pathways conversations and individual development/growth plans


Qualifications


  • 20+ years experience preferred


  • Diploma to a Bachelor's Degree preferred


Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.  

 





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