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Job Summary
The Principal Product Manager, Migrations is a senior individual contributor responsible for the strategy and tooling roadmap that enables customers to migrate on-premises and legacy cloud workloads to Equinix EMS Managed Private Cloud.
This role defines customer migration pathways, determines which migration capabilities should become self-service, prioritizes reusable capabilities across engineering teams, and influences migration-assistance investments and proofs of concept. The Principal Product Manager will balance immediate customer needs with longer-term platform investments, converting customer-specific requirements into scalable product capabilities.
Working across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, Sales, Solutions Architecture, go-to-market teams, customers, and partners, this leader will translate complex migration challenges into clear product strategies and investment recommendations. The role will also develop and execute the product strategy required to accelerate customer migrations in at least three Equinix local cloud markets.
The successful candidate will bring experience in technical product management, cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, migration, or solutions architecture. Candidates with adjacent cloud-platform experience and demonstrated ability to develop product vision, make roadmap decisions, and influence across a matrixed organization will be considered.
Responsibilities
Product Strategy and Roadmap
Own the migration product strategy and tooling roadmap for EMS Managed Private Cloud
Define customer migration pathways based on workload type, source environment, technical feasibility, risk, and customer needs
Develop an end-to-end roadmap covering discovery, assessment, planning, execution, validation, and post-migration operations
Determine which capabilities should be built internally, purchased, delivered through partners, or provided through migration-assistance services
Decide which migration workflows can become self-service and which require assisted delivery, human review, or approval controls
Convert customer-specific requests into reusable product capabilities and provide engineering teams with a prioritized, deduplicated set of requirements
Balance near-term customer needs with longer-term investments in shared tooling and platform capabilities
Infrastructure and Migration Tooling
Apply knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, Private Cloud architecture, virtualization, networking, and storage to product decisions
Partner with Engineering and Architecture to evaluate discovery, assessment, dependency mapping, orchestration, network reconfiguration, automated re-platforming, and validation capabilities
Define requirements for shared capabilities such as discovery services, migration orchestrators, validation frameworks, workflow automation, and reusable integrations
Evaluate tooling based on customer value, automation, reliability, cost, security, technical fit, and operational complexity
Initiate and guide proofs of concept to validate migration approaches, tooling options, automation opportunities, and product assumptions
Evaluate emerging capabilities, including container conversion, infrastructure-as-code generation, compatibility analysis, and hybrid migration patterns
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