Executive Recruitment Researcher at Equinix in Redwood City, California

Job Description:

Executive Recruitment Researcher

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed. 

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.   

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.  

Job Summary: Looking for a dynamic team that directly impacts who makes our companies biggest decisions? We are looking to hire top talent to support our Executive recruitment strategies and initiatives. In this role, you will partner with the business functions and executive recruitment leadership to understand the changing dynamics of the executive hiring market. The position will entail research and reporting, sourcing, screening, assessing candidates, and partnering closely with client service team and the business.

Equinix Executive Recruitment processes and procedures will align with the business strategy to hire top-quality, diverse, innovative and competitive talent to represent our business units and strengthen their ability to deliver.

You are:

• A Researcher and lover of data-as-a-story and service


• You find communication to be a top business priority and understand the impacts of healthy business relationships


• You have an eye for details and attractive presentation delivery


• You are thoughtful and inquisitive in your research approach


• Strategic thinking benefits your work and inspires your why


• Compliance with all legal and professional standards to ensure they are followed during the hiring and onboarding processes is of top importance to you

Responsibilities

• Partnering with Executive Recruiting leadership, Talent Acquisition team and business leaders to align with business strategy, near- and long-term talent requirements, and leadership bench strength


• Developing and executing on talent mapping/talent universe prioritization for leadership scale, domain expertise, and business process excellence


• Executing on proactive, always-on pipelining strategies in partnership with business leaders


• Embedding the lenses of diversity, equity and inclusion in all processes, practices and outcomes


• Build out of robust, well qualified and diverse candidate slates for all aligned leadership searches


• Communicating and enhancing service to a warm, regularly nurtured and pre-vetted leadership talent pool


• Improved brand image and affinity amongst leadership prospects; Excellence-first-approach

Qualifications

• 1+ years of research/sourcing/search


• Proven ability to quickly build candidate relationships and develop trust; empathetic listener, purposeful speaker


• Ability to respond effectively to changing priorities and demands while executing against critical asks


• Knowledge of how to manage, nurture and cultivate talent pools over time, motivation to make this proactive investment work a priority to be shared with the business

We offer Medical, TeleMedicine, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance, 401K, Leave of absence & disability benefits, paid time off & holidays and more. 

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

At Equinix, we’re tasked with leading in the communities we serve — and doing our part to help keep our communities and our teams safe. Our #IamSafeIBelongIMatter culture transcends and informs all we do. In alignment with our culture, as well as our status as a U.S. federal contractor, as of December 8, 2021, Equinix will be mandating all US-based employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. If you are unable to get a vaccine due to a medical condition, or sincerely held religious belief, Equinix will consider exemption requests as an accommodation.

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