Chief of Staff (Enterprise AI)

Join Equinix as the Chief of Staff for Enterprise AI. In this strategic role, you will partner with the Chief AI Officer to shape and deliver the company's enterprise AI agenda. You will be responsible for translating priorities into funded plans, strengthening executive decision-making, and enabling the AI leadership team to operate effectively across a global organization. Your expertise in AI strategy, business operations, and cross-functional alignment will be crucial in driving enterprise AI adoption and value realization.

• Serve as a strategic advisor and execution partner to the Chief AI Officer, helping shape and deliver Equinix’s enterprise AI agenda.
• Translate priorities into funded plans and measurable outcomes, strengthen executive decision-making, and enable the AI leadership team to operate effectively across a global organization.
• Partner with the CAIO to define and communicate the enterprise AI strategy, priorities, and investment roadmap, connecting internal transformation with Equinix’s broader AI business and ecosystem strategy.

• The successful candidate combines independent judgment, practical AI fluency, and hands-on execution
• They anticipate what needs attention, challenge assumptions constructively, and take ownership of complex work from initial framing through completion
• Calm leadership: Remain effective under pressure, recognize when to act independently and when to escalate, and put team outcomes first
• Strong understanding of enterprise AI and technology operating models, including generative AI, agents, shared platforms, adoption barriers, and AI economics and risk. Able to engage credibly with technical and business leaders
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, with experience in business cases, investment prioritization, budget planning, and benefits measurement
• Trust and discretion: Handle sensitive matters with integrity and the confidence to challenge respectfully
• Experience personally developing executive communications, Board materials, and strategic plans that require limited revision and support consequential decisions
• 10+ years of experience in strategy, business operations, consulting, Chief of Staff, product, data, AI, or related leadership roles, with demonstrated ownership of execution and business results
• Experience partnering with C-suite executives through ambiguity and organizational change. Prior Chief of Staff experience is valuable; equivalent operating leadership experience is equally relevant
• Execution discipline: Take ownership without waiting for detailed direction and close commitments reliably
• Learning agility: Develop technical and business context quickly, use AI tools effectively, and verify their outputs
• Influence and collaboration: Build credibility across functions and hold peers accountable while preserving trust
• Proven experience delivering complex initiatives across a large, global, matrixed organization, including resolving competing priorities and recovering work that is off track
• Strategic judgment: Frame the right problem, make trade-offs, and offer an independent point of view
• Executive communication: Synthesize complex issues into concise, accurate writing and clear discussion