Chief of Staff, Enterprise AI
$177,000 - $319,000 per year
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SENIORITY
Manager
SALARY
$177,000 - $319,000 per year
About the role
- Strategic Planning & Executive Advisory
- 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
- Develop decision briefs with clear recommendations, alternatives, financial implications, and risks.
- Provide candid advice and test the assumptions behind major proposals
- Assess emerging AI capabilities, competitors, and partnerships, distinguishing developments that warrant action from those that warrant monitoring
- Lead strategic initiatives and special projects from problem definition through delivery, establishing ownership and transitioning ongoing responsibilities to the appropriate teams
- Business Operations & Execution
- Own the AI leadership team's operating rhythm, including planning, portfolio reviews, leadership meetings, and offsites.
- Structure forums around decisions, with clear owners, deadlines, and follow-through
- Drive portfolio visibility across priorities, dependencies, investment, and results.
- Work with Finance and business owners to validate value assumptions and distinguish realized benefits from forecasts
- Coordinate budget and workforce planning with Finance and HR. Surface resource trade-offs and recommend where to accelerate, adjust, or stop investment
- Resolve execution barriers with accountable leaders and elevate material risks early, with options and a recommended course of action
- Represent the CAIO as delegated, exercising judgment within agreed decision rights and keeping the CAIO informed of consequential commitments
- Cross-Functional Alignment & Stakeholder Engagement
- Build trusted partnerships with executive leaders, Chiefs of Staff, and business owners to secure sponsorship and drive enterprise AI adoption and value realization
- Resolve cross-functional dependencies and competing priorities.
- Make ownership explicit and address difficult issues directly and constructively
- Lead preparation of Board and executive materials, decision memos, and organizational communications, translating technical detail into clear business implications and specific asks
- Prepare the CAIO for customer, partner, and industry engagements.
- Define the purpose of each engagement and drive follow-through, aligning external messaging with Communications and Marketing
- Organizational Effectiveness & Transformation
- Partner with the AI leadership team and HR on operating model evolution, workforce priorities, and leadership development.
- Identify capability gaps and clarify responsibilities as the organization scales
- Coordinate with AI governance, Security, Legal, and other control functions to bring responsible AI requirements and unresolved risk decisions into portfolio planning and executive reviews
- Advance AI fluency and change initiatives with business leaders, using adoption and outcome evidence to identify what needs to change
- Improve how the organization works through simple processes and practical use of AI, reducing manual reporting and unnecessary meetings.
- Model a culture of High Standard, Low Bureaucracy, Zero Blame
- Knowledge & Experience 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
- 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
- Proven experience delivering complex initiatives across a large, global, matrixed organization, including resolving competing priorities and recovering work that is off track
- Strong financial and analytical acumen, with experience in business cases, investment prioritization, budget planning, and benefits measurement
- Experience personally developing executive communications, Board materials, and strategic plans that require limited revision and support consequential decisions
- 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
- Skills & Attributes
- Strategic judgment: Frame the right problem, make trade-offs, and offer an independent point of view
- Execution discipline: Take ownership without waiting for detailed direction and close commitments reliably
- Executive communication: Synthesize complex issues into concise, accurate writing and clear discussion
- Trust and discretion: Handle sensitive matters with integrity and the confidence to challenge respectfully
- Influence and collaboration: Build credibility across functions and hold peers accountable while preserving trust
- Learning agility: Develop technical and business context quickly, use AI tools effectively, and verify their outputs
- Calm leadership: Remain effective under pressure, recognize when to act independently and when to raise, and put team outcomes first
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