VP, Legal, Real Estate – Infrastructure

Role Overview

• Responsible for shaping a strategy and execution model around legal support for the delivery of inventory/capacity to support Equinix’s organic expansion plans across all three regions.
• Support the work of the Global Real Estate, Global Design & Construction and Global Energy teams, with a deliberate focus on operating with excellence and scalability, repeatability, and continuous improvement as expansion volumes increase.
• Represent One Legal on applicable investment committees, handling any legal and related queries and escalations as part of the review and approval of new organic expansions.
• Drive preparation and adoption of appropriate global policies and procedures and risk frameworks to ensure consistent stakeholder experience while accommodating local nuance.
• Lead and manage all real estate transaction activity (acquisitions, ground leases, and commercial leases) and advisory work associated with the same, designing standardized deal frameworks, playbooks, and process flows to enable efficient execution at scale and appropriate outsourcing of routine or repeatable work.
• Lead and manage all construction contracting activity, zoning, planning, and advisory work associated with the same, embedding process discipline, template-driven contracting, and system-enabled tracking to improve cycle times, quality, and predictability.
• Lead and manage legal support for power strategies in region, including support for power purchasing contracts, advising on renewable and sustainability issues, supporting complex power projects such as onsite power generation and building and operating sub-stations while continuously refining legal delivery models to support increasingly complex, high-volume, and capital-intensive programs.
• Support through a RACI model on all real estate, construction and energy aspects of xScale JV businesses, and partner with the GC for xScale-on-xScale related matters.
• Build and maintain a network of external counsel relationships across the region with the necessary expertise and knowledge of Equinix to ensure excellent, timely, and cost effective external legal support, and manage budgeted spend accordingly.

Requirements

• Extensive legal experience including a substantial track record of operating in an executive leadership role.
• Experience leading a globally diverse team & delivering outcomes across jurisdictions.
• Experience leading an organization through transformation.
• Experience in legal leadership as a strategic legal partner, preferably in the technology/data center sector or an industry aligned to real estate, power, or construction.
• Demonstrated deep legal expertise in one or more key practice areas.
• Strong leadership skills in motivating a team and delivery on team objectives as a unified team with one voice.
• Possesses a highly evolved commercial sensibility.
• Possesses executive presence, and ability to influence at the SVP level and above.
• Ability to standardize global policies while translating for local complexities.
• Adept at balancing intense short-term pressures with overall long-term goals.
• Adept at inspiring behavior change through motivating teams, planning initiatives, designating priorities, and being decisive when faced with ambiguity.
• Focus on execution and results – establishing high standards for performance, setting goals and developing plans, following through and holding people accountable for results.

Benefits

• Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
• Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.
• Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.