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You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward. You’ll find belonging, purpose, and a team that welcomes you-because when you feel valued, you’re empowered to do your best work.Job Summary\nThe Interconnection Sales Specialist (ICS) is an architecture-led seller who grows interconnection revenue across Equinix's full physical and virtual portfolio in new and existing Commercial accounts. The role helps mid-market and enterprise customers modernize their networks, connect hybrid and multicloud environments, scale digital operations, improve application performance, and accelerate AI adoption.\nAn ICS sells architectures, not transactions. They work with customers to design how their networks, clouds, applications, partners, customers, and AI workloads connect, then land that design on Platform Equinix as a repeatable pattern. Each landed architecture is a design win: a durable position in the account through which additional connections, locations, applications, and workloads can scale.\nThe ICS partners with Account Executives, Solution Architects, Sales Engineers, Technical Account Managers, Customer Success, and channel and alliance partners to create pull-through for the whole account team.\nWhat You'll Sell\nThe ICS sells every Equinix interconnection service, combined into the architecture the customer needs rather than one product at a time. Typical architectures include:\nWAN core and network modernization using Equinix Fabric and Network Edge\nHybrid and multicloud connectivity using Fabric Cloud Router and private cloud on-ramps\nData center consolidation, cloud adjacency, and distributed infrastructure architectures\nDistributed AI hubs, GPU connectivity, and high-capacity data-movement interconnect\nAI inference, application delivery, and low-latency digital experiences at the edge\nPrivate connectivity to SaaS platforms, AI services, customers, suppliers, and ecosystem partners\nDigital supply-chain and B2B ecosystems built on cross connects, peering, and Metro Connect\nBusiness continuity, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and zero-trust connectivity architectures\nArchitectures supporting mergers and acquisitions, geographic expansion, digital commerce, and distributed workforces\nResponsibilities\nMain Responsibilities\nArchitecture-Led Selling and Design Wins\nLead design conversations with customer network, cloud, infrastructure, security, application, and data teams to understand business drivers, technical requirements, and pain points\nMap customer needs to proven interconnection architectures, combining physical and virtual services into a unified design\nPartner with Solution Architects on presales feasibility and solution design, and produce blueprints that account and delivery teams can execute\nRegister the architecture scope early and drive it from customer commitment through the first production connection and a published blueprint\nBuild value cases using measurable outcomes such as network cost reduction, application performance, cloud egress optimization, deployment speed, resiliency, and revenue enablement\nEngage CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, enterprise architects, cloud leaders, application owners, procurement, finance, and business stakeholders to align the architecture with growth, efficiency, customer experience, and transformation priorities\nDesign for resiliency, security, regulatory compliance, data governance, zero-trust networking, disaster recovery, global expansion, and secure access to clouds, SaaS platforms, partners, customers, and distributed locations\nAccount and Territory Planning\nRun joint account planning with Account Executives and Sales Engineers for assigned accounts, territories, or industry segments\nAnalyze the installed base, network topology, cloud footprint, application landscape, and interconnection maturity to identify accounts ready for a new architecture\nDrive expansion in existing accounts and help open new logos, including magnet customers that attract partners, suppliers, carriers, clouds, and digital ecosystems\nIdentify opportunities tied to network modernization, cloud migration, data center consolidation, cybersecurity, AI adoption, mergers and acquisitions, geographic expansion, digital commerce, and supply-chain transformation\nDevelop territory strategies aligned to customer growth plans, technology refresh cycles, cloud commitments, application roadmaps, contract renewals, and strategic investments\nContribute to quarterly business reviews and account growth plans with clear next actions, deal risks, partner strategies, and architecture expansion paths\nPartnership with the Account Team\nAct as the interconnection expert for the account team from pursuit strategy through close and expansion\nBring in the right resources for each opportunity, including Solution Architects, Technical Account Managers, product, customer success, alliances, channel partners, and deal desk\nCo-sell with hyperscalers, SaaS providers, carriers, network service providers, systems integrators, managed service providers, and technology partners when ecosystem-led plays strengthen the path to a design win\nPartner closely with Commercial Account Executives to connect technical architecture decisions to business value, competitive differentiation, and account expansion\nHand off landed architectures cleanly so follow-on connections, locations, and workloads can be booked and deployed by the team best positioned to execute\nExpertise and Enablement\nBe the field expert on the full Equinix interconnection portfolio, commercial use cases, industry trends, and the competitive landscape\nHelp Account Executives identify interconnection fit, buyer personas, compelling events, discovery questions, common objections, and competitive alternatives\nContribute to playbooks, reference architectures, customer stories, and industry-specific use cases so winning patterns repeat across the region\nMaintain expertise in hybrid and multicloud adoption, network transformation, cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, data modernization, digital commerce, distributed workforces, application performance, and ecosystem-based business models\nUnderstand commercial buying motions, annual budget cycles, capital and operating expense considerations, procurement processes, executive approval paths, partner influence, and industry-specific compliance requirements\nPipeline, Forecasting and Cadence\nBuild and manage a pipeline of architecture opportunities against monthly, quarterly, and annual objectives\nProvide timely and accurate forecasts, qualification, next steps, and risk assessment through the team operating cadence\nFollow the Equinix selling methodology and keep CRM records current, including registered design scopes, use cases, buyer alignment, and implementation milestones\nWork with marketing, alliances, channel, and business development on campaigns that generate qualified interconnection pipeline\nBuild Commercial pipeline tied to network modernization, cloud migration, data center consolidation, cybersecurity, AI, digital commerce, global expansion, and customer experience transformation\nCommercials and Negotiation\nSupport the Account Executive on solution packaging, quoting, pricing, negotiation, and closing of interconnection opportunities\nShape commercial structures that support phased deployment and the full build-out of the architecture over time\nWork with deal desk and legal on commercial terms, multiyear agreements, partner-led transactions, and complex contracting needs\nSupport customer business cases, proposals, procurement reviews, total cost of ownership analysis, and contract negotiations while protecting long-term architecture adoption and expansion\nHow Success Is Measured\nThe ICS is measured on landing architectures and the interconnection growth they create across the portfolio.\nArea Measures\nActivity: Design conversations held, architecture scopes registered, value cases completed, and blueprints published\nPartnership: Joint account plans with AEs and SEs, executive alignment, and partner co-sell engagements\nOutcomes: Design wins landed, interconnection bookings and revenue growth, gross interconnects, new logos, wallet-share expansion, cloud and partner ecosystem adoption, and measurable customer business 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finance, procurement, operations, and business leadership teams\nPreferred\nExperience with AI and GPU-cluster networking, high-volume data movement, or large-scale hybrid and multicloud architectures in commercial enterprise environments\nHands-on background as a network or solutions architect, or experience with a cloud provider, carrier, network service provider, systems integrator, or managed service provider\nIndustry certifications such as CCNP, JNCIP, or cloud networking specialty certifications from AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud\nExperience in one or more industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics, professional services, software, or digital media\nExperience selling through direct, overlay, channel, and ecosystem-led motions and developing business cases for complex, multiyear technology investments\nFamiliarity with enterprise procurement, competitive proposals, total cost of ownership analysis, partner-led 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