People Experience Senior Specialist, Compensation & Lifecycle Operations

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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.

This role helps deliver some of the most important moments in an employee’s journey, from annual pay reviews, promotions and compensation changes to job changes, reorganizations, workforce transitions and terminations.

The People Experience Senior Specialist, Lifecycle & Operations combines strong operational delivery, data discipline and process improvement to ensure employee and compensation activities are completed accurately, consistently and in line with policy, legal, payroll and audit requirements.

Working across People Experience, Total Rewards, Payroll, Finance, People Business Partners, Org Design and Advisory teams, the role manages sensitive employee and pay data, supports Workday transactions and mass updates, maintains high-quality controls, and helps improve how work is delivered through standardization, automation, AI-enabled tools and continuous improvement.

Success in this role requires strong analytical capability, attention to detail, sound judgement, discretion, and a commitment to delivering a high-quality employee and manager experience.

• Support the operational delivery of the Annual Pay cycle, ensuring processes, service channels, controls and hand-offs are ready and executed consistently

• Review compensation data, complete eligibility and data validation checks, and perform operational audits to identify discrepancies and support accurate cycle execution

• Manage compensation-related escalations and enable People Advisory and digital service platforms to resolve routine queries and cases at scale, with clear guidance, escalation paths with People Solutions and other partners

• Oversee compensation content and knowledge management, ensuring process guidance, knowledge articles, manager resources and operational documentation remain accurate, current and accessible

• Maintain and deliver training and communications to support effective execution of the compensation cycle

• Work with People Solutions teams to refine service delivery and enable compensation support at scale, ensuring managers have the information, tools and guidance needed to fulfil their responsibilities

• Support digital enablement of compensation operations through self-service content, workflow improvements, automation and effective use of service management and HR technology tools

• Support lifecycle and transition processes including job changes, internal transfers, international transfers, reorganizations, reductions in force, offboarding and terminations

• Prepare and validate datasets, sequencing plans, Workday actions and supporting documentation for lifecycle and transition activity

• Execute or support Workday transactions and mass updates, ensuring accurate employee data and downstream feeds to Payroll, Benefits and other systems

• Provide clear and timely updates to employees, managers and HR stakeholders throughout lifecycle events

• Identify risks, exceptions or data discrepancies and upscale appropriately

• Manage high volumes of employee, compensation and organizational data with accuracy, confidentiality and strong attention to detail

• Perform data analysis, reconciliations, comparisons, variance checks and validations using Excel, Workday and reporting tools

• Produce operational reporting on cycle status, spend, budget utilization, data quality, completion tracking, transition progress and service performance

• Maintain audit-ready records of compensation decisions,…