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VP, Enterprise and Commercial Customer Success Management

Equinix, Redwood City, CA, United States


Job Summary Owns how Customer Success scales across Enterprise, Rest of Enterprise, and Commercial segments. Leads the dual role model where CSMs focus on value, adoption, renewals and expansion, and Service Managers focus on operational excellence and service accountability.

Responsibilities

Own the coverage and segmentation execution model: experience standards, engagement levels, and capacity principles by segment

Lead and embed the CSM / Service Manager role model, including what each role owns, how they partner, and how work is handed off

Build consistent customer rhythms: onboarding expectations, success plans, health reviews, renewal readiness, and expansion motions

Own the capability system for CSM/SM: hiring profiles, assessment approach, enablement path, and performance expectations

Embed value realisation discipline into day-to-day work (presale value hypothesis postsale outcomes executive value reviews)

Partner with Digital Transformation to ensure customer health signals and playbooks are usable, and drive earlier interventions

Reduce customer experience variability across regions by setting clear standards and "moments that matter" expectations

Ensure the CS model ladders to CRO Serve Better goals: retention outcomes, renewal predictability, and CLV improvements

Coach and develop team members to strengthen business acumen, change leadership, and executional discipline

Drive workforce planning and location-based strategies to optimize talent and delivery agility

Champion Equinix values, modelling transparency, inclusion, collaboration, and a bias for action across all transformation efforts

Qualifications

Bachelor's & Masters degree in business-related discipline or equivalent experience

Extensive experience in Customer Success / GTM

Experience leading scaled Customer Success organisations with segmented coverage models

Experience implementing dual role models and clarifying decision rights at scale

Track record building enablement and capability frameworks that stick

Strong understanding of adoption, renewal readiness, and expansion disciplines

Comfortable leading through operating model change

Skills and Attributes

Strong simplifier – makes "who owns what" unambiguous

System builder – designs standards that work globally

Customer and commercial mindset

Strong people leader and coach

Pragmatic and outcomes-focused

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affiant Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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