Equinix Incubation builds the agentic systems that run the software delivery lifecycle end to end: a fleet of specialized AI agents, with humans directing the work and owning every gate. Someone has to own the product, the roadmap, and the team behind it. That is this role.
You will lead the engineering pods that build the orchestration layer, the persona consoles, and the agents themselves, and carry the roadmap from first MVP to organization-wide scale. This is a player-coach role for a leader who can hold a product vision, an architecture, an executive audience, and a hiring plan in their head at the same time.
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Who are we?
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, shortening the path to connectivity to enable the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.
A place where bold ideas are welcomed, human connection is valued, and everyone has the opportunity to shape their future.
Job Summary
Equinix Incubation builds the agentic systems that run the software delivery lifecycle end to end: a fleet of specialized AI agents, with humans directing the work and owning every gate. Someone has to own the product, the roadmap, and the team behind it. That is this role.
You will lead the engineering pods that build the orchestration layer, the persona consoles, and the agents themselves, and carry the roadmap from first MVP to organization-wide scale. This is a player-coach role for a leader who can hold a product vision, an architecture, an executive audience, and a hiring plan in their head at the same time.
Responsibilities
Own the Product and the Roadmap
Define and drive the delivery-engine roadmap: orchestrator, agent fleet, consoles, dashboards, and enterprise integrations, sequenced for value
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Make the build-measure-learn loop real: ship in sprints, pilot with live delivery teams, and let adoption and telemetry reshape the plan
Own trade-off decisions across scope, quality, cost, and speed, and defend them with data in front of senior leadership
Build and Lead the Pods
Hire, grow, and retain a small, exceptional team of agent engineers, platform engineers, and delivery talent across the UK and India
Run lean pods where agents do the routine work and people do the judgment work; model that way of working yourself
Set a high, kind bar: clear expectations, honest feedback, and career growth in the most modern engineering discipline there is
Prove the Value
Own the value story: cycle time, throughput, quality, adoption, and realized business value, instrumented and reported without drama
Keep the economics honest: agent cost, platform cost, and capacity unlocked, treated as first-class engineering metrics
Turn pilot wins into an expansion case that finance and function leaders believe
Set the Operating Standard
Establish how agent-first engineering is done: evals as release gates, human-in-the-loop approvals, and responsible AI governance with InfoSec and the AI council
Represent the platform in architecture and governance forums, and keep the roadmap aligned with enterprise platform and data strategy
Share patterns, standards, and playbooks so other teams can adopt what your team proves
What Success Looks Like
The delivery engine is in daily use by live delivery teams, with measurable cycle-time and quality gains that survive finance scrutiny
You have built a team people want to join, with a hiring record and retention that show it
Executives trust your roadmap because what you commit to ships, and what ships gets measured
The operating standards your team set are being adopted beyond your team
Qualifications
12+ years in software engineering, including 5+ years leading engineering teams or engineering-led products
A record of shipping and scaling platforms or products in an enterprise, from first release through adoption
Hands-on fluency with modern AI: LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, and what it takes to make them production-grade
Strong architectural judgment across APIs, event-driven systems, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration
Proven hiring and talent development record, including building distributed teams
Executive-grade communication: you can carry a room of senior stakeholders with a clear, honest narrative
Preferred Qualifications
Experience delivering AI or automation platforms into regulated or security-conscious enterprises
Experience with agent frameworks and protocols such as MCP or A2A, and with eval-driven quality practices
Experience running product operating models: roadmaps, funding cases, value realization
·Background in developer platforms, SDLC tooling, or engineering productivity
Core Competencies
Product & Technical Leadership
Roadmap ownership; architectural judgment; trade-off decision-making; systems thinking
People Leadership
Hiring and talent development; lean pod design; coaching; distributed team leadership
AI-First Operating Model
· Agent-first ways of working; evals and governance; human-in-the-loop design; value instrumentation
Executive Influence
Narrative and communication; stakeholder alignment; funding and value cases; calm under scrutiny
Why This Role
Incubation is a durable capability, not a project team: the team persists, and the product rotates. Agentic delivery is product one; the next incubation bets follow. You will define how AI-first engineering works at Equinix and build the team that proves it. Few director roles come with a mandate this clear and a canvas this open.
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About Equinix
Data Centers & Cloud Infrastructure13931 employeesFounded 1998
Global provider of data center colocation and interconnection services.
