Communication Manager

Join Equinix, a global leader in digital infrastructure, as a Communication Manager. In this role, you will develop and execute external and internal communication strategies, elevate the voice of the EVP, Global Markets, and partner with various teams across the organization. You will also oversee the EVP's LinkedIn presence, develop external presentations, and lead internal communications for the Global Markets function. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building a strong internal culture, experience in communications strategy, and a collaborative nature.

Develop and execute external communications strategies for the EVP, Global Markets, including thought leadership content and social media engagement.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the corporate communications team on external communications activities, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities and messaging.
• Lead internal communications for the Global Markets function, fostering a shared identity and understanding of its purpose among employees.
• Digital acumen and knowledge of digital communications trends, standards, design, and best practices, including user experience for web, email, mobile, and social media
• Experience gathering and reporting metrics to measure communications performance, optimize future efforts, and understand audience behavior
• Comfort translating complex business, financial, and investment topics into clear, compelling narratives for executive and employee audiences
• Have a passion for building process and structure to support a newly formed, high-growth function and optimizing the execution of day-to-day operations and deliverables

Requirements

• Demonstrate a passion for building a strong internal culture
• Have a highly collaborative nature and experience working cross-functionally in a highly matrixed organization, partnering, managing through influence, and setting others up for success
• Strong planning and project management skills, with the ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, or a related area preferred
• Be a collaborative leader capable of building cross-functional relationships to drive change and influence business decisions
• Proven communications experience creating and implementing strategies and developing online content, ideally at Fortune 500 B2B technology companies and supporting C-suite or EVP-level executives
• Experience with visual design and layout, and working with creative resources
• Experience working across multiple regions and time zones and supporting a globally distributed executive and employee base
• Strong understanding of key technology and communications tools, including PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, SharePoint, Smartsheet, and Populo, and willingness and ability to quickly embrace new tools

Have exemplary written, verbal, and presentation skills

• Crisis communications experience, including experience dealing with sensitive workforce and workplace issues
• Demonstrated excellence in strategic storytelling, writing and editing, project management, strategic planning and execution, executive coaching, event management, crisis management and communications, change management, and multimedia communications
• Be detail-oriented and able to handle various tasks simultaneously under multiple deadlines
• Experience managing content for web, video, social, and print, and developing content strategy
• Bring innovative thinking, creative ideas, an external perspective, global and regional insights, diverse perspectives, and higher-level awareness to your work