Principal Product Manager, Migrations

Equinix•Toronto, ON

1d•$158,000 - $286,000

About The Position

The Principal Product Manager, Migrations is a senior individual contributor responsible for the strategy and tooling roadmap that enables customers to migrate on-premises and legacy cloud workloads to Equinix EMS Managed Private Cloud. The role defines customer migration pathways, decides which capabilities should become self-service, prioritizes reusable capabilities across engineering teams, and influences migration-assistance investments and proofs of concept. It balances immediate customer needs with longer-term platform investments, converting customer-specific requirements into scalable product capabilities. Working across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, Sales, Solutions Architecture, go-to-market teams, customers, and partners, the Principal Product Manager translates complex migration challenges into product strategies and investment recommendations. The role develops and executes the strategy to accelerate customer migrations in at least three Equinix local cloud markets. Candidates with experience in technical product management, cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, migration, or solutions architecture are sought; adjacent cloud-platform experience with demonstrated product vision, roadmap decision-making, and matrixed influence is also considered.

Requirements

8+ years of progressive experience in technical product management, solutions architecture, cloud-platform strategy, infrastructure migration, or a related discipline.
Experience defining product, platform, or solution strategy and translating it into an actionable roadmap.
Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, virtualization, networking, storage, or workload migration.
Experience partnering with Engineering and Architecture to evaluate technical alternatives, define requirements, and manage dependencies.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing customer needs, technical constraints, investment considerations, and operational risks.
Track record of converting customer-specific needs into reusable product, platform, tooling, or service capabilities.
Experience influencing senior technical and business stakeholders without direct authority.
Experience coordinating priorities across multiple engineering teams or product backlogs.
Ability to evaluate build, buy, and partner options using customer value, technical fit, cost, reliability, security, and operational complexity.
Experience using product, customer, operational, or business data to guide priorities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics and investment tradeoffs.

Nice To Haves

Experience with enterprise infrastructure migration, Private Cloud, cloud adoption, or data-center transformation.

Responsibilities

Own the migration product strategy and tooling roadmap for EMS Managed Private Cloud.
Define customer migration pathways based on workload type, source environment, technical feasibility, risk, and customer needs.
Develop an end-to-end roadmap covering discovery, assessment, planning, execution, validation, and post-migration operations.
Determine which capabilities should be built internally, purchased, delivered through partners, or provided through migration-assistance services.
Decide which migration workflows can become self-service and which require assisted delivery, human review, or approval controls.
Convert customer-specific requests into reusable product capabilities and provide engineering teams with a prioritized, deduplicated set of requirements.
Balance near-term customer needs with longer-term investments in shared tooling and platform capabilities.
Apply knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, Private Cloud architecture, virtualization, networking, and storage to product decisions.
Partner with Engineering and Architecture to evaluate discovery, assessment, dependency mapping, orchestration, network reconfiguration, automated re-platforming, and validation capabilities.
Define requirements for shared capabilities such as discovery services, migration orchestrators, validation frameworks, workflow automation, and reusable integrations.
Evaluate tooling based on customer value, automation, reliability, cost, security, technical fit, and operational complexity.
Initiate and guide proofs of concept to validate migration approaches, tooling options, automation opportunities, and product assumptions.
Evaluate emerging capabilities, including container conversion, infrastructure-as-code generation, compatibility analysis, and hybrid migration patterns.
Explore practical applications for AI-assisted compatibility scoring, rightsizing, cost modeling, dependency analysis, and migration-risk identification.
Make product decisions regarding customer migration pathways, tooling priorities, and self-service capabilities.
Prioritize migration capabilities and dependencies across contributing engineering teams and backlogs.
Influence migration-assistance investments through customer evidence, technical evaluation, business value, and operational-risk analysis.
Recommend build, buy, and partner decisions and use proof-of-concept findings to guide roadmap and investment priorities.
Define product success measures using migration funnel metrics, tooling adoption, completion rates, customer feedback, and business outcomes.
Engage enterprise customers, customer-facing teams, and partners to validate priorities and identify common migration needs.
Develop lighthouse customer engagements and translate successful migrations into repeatable product and field practices.
Collaborate with Sales, Solutions Architecture, Product Marketing, and go-to-market teams on migration sales plays, enablement, and market activation.
Develop and execute the strategy needed to accelerate migrations in at least three local cloud markets.
Build alignment across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Design, Data, Sales, Solutions Architecture, and go-to-market teams.
Influence senior technical and business leaders through expertise, evidence, and clear reasoning rather than direct authority.
Translate technical choices, risks, and constraints into clear customer, product, and business implications.
Present roadmap decisions, investment recommendations, proof-of-concept findings, and material risks to senior stakeholders.
Resolve competing customer, technical, business, and operational priorities across multiple teams.
Stay current on infrastructure migration, Private Cloud, automation, orchestration, and AI-assisted assessment.