Workplace Strategy Senior Manager

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. A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. 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.

Workplace Strategy Senior Manager

Job Summary

As a Workplace Strategist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how Equinix workplaces optimize business performance through robust data analytics, capacity modelling, and utilization insights. Your primary responsibility is to build evidence-based workplace strategies that translate enterprise objectives into actionable spatial, operational, and experience-driven outcomes. This role places strong emphasis on analyzing quantitative and qualitative workplace data—space utilization, occupancy patterns, headcount forecasts, collaboration trends, and employee sentiment—to create clear, measurable workplace recommendations.

You will act as a trusted advisor within Corporate Real Estate, partnering closely with Regional Operations, Design Teams, Program Managers, and cross-functional groups including HR, IT, Finance, Communications, and external partners. You will ensure workplace strategies are analytical, scalable, and grounded in data, supporting both near-term business needs and long-term portfolio planning.

Responsibilities

Strategic Workplace Planning

• Develop robust workplace strategies grounded in quantitative data, including space utilization studies, occupancy analytics, capacity modelling, and demand forecasting
• Ensure all projects begin with a clear, data-validated workplace vision, strategy, and brief
• Translate business objectives, headcount plans, and organizational models into evidence-based spatial scenarios and strategic briefs

Workplace Discovery & Analytics

• Lead workplace discovery activities such as utilization studies, sensor data analysis, surveys, interviews, and workshops to capture both behavioral insights and measurable performance indicators
• Analyze data on space use, collaboration patterns, mobility, and employee experience, synthesizing complex datasets into actionable insights
• Develop dashboards, reports, and analytical models to communicate trends and guide decision-making

Scenario Modelling & Capacity Planning

• Build space calculation models, headcount capacity plans, demand models, and future-state scenarios to support strategic planning across regions and portfolios
• Conduct gap analyses to identify space deficits, surpluses, and optimization opportunities
• Provide strategic oversight of block and stack diagrams, test-fits, and design proposals to ensure alignment with evidence-based capacity and utilization insights

Program & Change Strategy

• Partner with Operational Leaders to understand project constraints, budgets, and timelines, ensuring analytics underpin all early-stage decisions
• Design and deliver data-informed change management strategies supporting new ways of working
• Identify stakeholder impacts, readiness levels, and behavioral shifts validated through pre- and post-occupancy data

Engagement & Communication

• Create engagement plans supported by data-driven narratives, including leadership alignment materials, toolkits, playbooks, and workforce communications
• Prepare analytical content for project steering groups, CRE leadership reviews, and business stakeholder updates

Continuous Improvement & Standards

• Lead post-occupancy evaluations, capturing utilization and performance metrics to inform continuous improvement cycles and QBRs
• Contribute to the evolution of Workplace Strategy frameworks, ensuring methodologies for data collection, analytics, and utilization modelling remain current and scalable
• Embed Equinix priorities—wellbeing, inclusion, accessibility, sustainability, resilience, and security—into measurable workplace outcomes

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical capability with a high level of rigor, ensuring all data, assumptions, and models are robust and defensible
• Senior presence with the ability to influence through data-driven storytelling and evidence-based recommendations
• Critical thinker able to navigate complexity and ambiguity using data insights to support clear decision-making
• Experienced at managing multiple analytic and strategic workstreams across geographies
• Collaborative mindset, building trusted relationships with multidisciplinary teams without direct authority
• Continuous improvement orientation, advancing tools, processes, data methods, and workplace measurement approaches

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in workplace strategy, architecture, organisational development, business analytics, psychology, or related field
• Proven years of experience in workplace strategy, data-driven workplace design, management consulting, or corporate real estate roles
• Demonstrated experience applying data analytics, utilisation insights, and capacity modelling to workplace decisions
• Experience working in complex, multi-site or global environments
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with collaboration tools (Teams, Miro) and workplace/occupancy analytics platforms

Equinix Benefits

As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. We ensure all your benefits are in line with our core values: competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected and efficient. We keep them competitive within the current marketplace to ensure we’re providing you with the best package possible. So, wherever you are in your career and life, you’ll be able to enhance your experience and bring your whole self to work.

Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.

Core Benefits - Pension: You will be enrolled in the employee capital plan or pension, known as PPK, a contributory pension scheme for you and your employer to save funds intended for withdrawal on retirement.

Private Medical Insurance: You may enroll yourself and eligible dependents in Private Medical Insurance (PMI) for greater choice, flexibility, and access to specialist care for short-term illness or injury and so on.

Life and Accident Insurance: Equinix provides Life and Accident Insurance cover for its employees which you can enroll in.

Other Benefits and Perks: Employees have the option to select and use from a wide range of other benefits including: Annual Leaves, Flex Wallet (flexible spending account), Multi-sport Card, Lunch Pass Card, Discount Portal, statutory allowances and reimbursements (remote working, corrective glasses reimbursement), and paid and unpaid leaves in line with local market practices and regulatory requirements. More details on eligibility and rules for leaves are in Equinix's HR policies. Eligibility and contribution requirements apply to some benefits, in line with company policy. Benefits are subject to specific plan/program or insurer terms and conditions, including changes at Equinix's discretion. Equinix will be compliant will regulatory requirements on benefits and leaves.