Western Digital

Strategy

• Oversee market intelligence activities, including TAM sizing, customer landscape analysis, market dynamics, competitive landscape, and substitution threats
• Maintain perspectives on Western Digital's core HDD business and adjacent new venture markets
• Monitor demand signals, technology, and customer behavior shifts
• Develop analytical models and insights on AI-driven data growth, cloud capital expenditure cycles, and storage tiering economics
• Partner with venture teams to size emerging markets and develop proprietary market views
• Assess Western Digital's right to play in emerging markets and identify capabilities requiring development, acquisition, or partnerships
• Recommend opportunities for deeper diligence or investment and define leading indicators
• Support quarterly market reviews for senior leadership and the annual strategy cycle
• Contribute market outlooks and scenarios for long-range planning
• Partner on growth, portfolio, ecosystem, and investment projects
• Support sales, product, marketing, and finance decisions involving pricing, capacity, roadmaps, account planning, and business cases
• Maintain an evidence-based competitive landscape covering capacity additions, technology roadmaps, cost positions, and commercial behavior
• Assess competitive moves and their implications for Western Digital's positioning
• Own relationships with external industry research analysts
• Manage the research portfolio across core and new venture markets, identifying insight gaps and managing the vendor portfolio

Director, Corporate Strategy

Analyst

• Manage license-related activities, including Value-Added approvals for finished-goods return products
• Maintain machinery inventory reports supporting LMW and audit requirements
• Oversee LMW exemption processes for machinery and equipment, raw materials, and finished goods
• Coordinate annual LMW license renewals, documentation, submissions, clarifications, and Customs audits
• Prepare and submit MITI and SIRIM permits for regulated inbound imports
• Apply for ad hoc inbound licenses for materials outside existing exemptions
• Provide Customs “greenlight” shipment approvals after authorization
• Manage end-to-end inbound shipment coordination, documentation review, Customs clearance, and exceptions
• Support appointed couriers with ad hoc exemptions
• Coordinate with freight forwarders, customs brokers, and logistics service providers
• Serve as primary contact for internal shipment requestors and coordinate with buyers, planners, and operations teams
• Communicate shipment status, issues, and resolution plans
• Serve as Logistics Department ISO Coordinator
• Support internal and external audits and track corrective actions
• Identify automation and digitization opportunities and contribute to continuous improvement
• Ensure shipments comply with approved licenses, exemptions, and regulatory conditions
• Prepare trade analytics and operational metrics reports and presentations
• Maintain trade-related databases and documentation
• Support development and implementation of trade operational strategies

Import/Export Analyst

Business Operations

• Partner with the VP of Business Applications and VP of Digital Employee Experience on strategic priorities
• Translate IT strategy across both portfolios into actionable roadmaps, plans, and organizational commitments
• Advise VP leaders on organizational decisions, planning trade-offs, and priority setting
• Identify alignment, synergy, and shared execution opportunities across both organizations
• Represent VP leadership interests in cross-functional forums, planning sessions, and executive reviews
• Own the operating cadence, including leadership rhythms, QBRs, strategic planning cycles, and technology reviews
• Drive accountability for commitments, deliverables, and milestones across both leadership teams
• Identify and resolve operational blockers and maintain visibility into initiative portfolios, risks, dependencies, and progress
• Improve operational processes spanning the two IT organizations
• Synthesize complex information into leadership decisions and recommendations
• Develop executive presentations, strategic briefings, and business updates
• Translate technical and operational content into narratives for business and executive audiences
• Prepare both VP leaders for high-stakes meetings, technology reviews, and partner forums
• Manage strategic communications to internal teams and business partners
• Coordinate budget planning, forecasting, expense management, headcount, resource allocation, and workforce planning with Finance and HR
• Support resource prioritization decisions and flag material budget or resource variances
• Oversee KPI tracking, reporting, dashboards, and scorecards across both portfolios
• Identify performance trends, risks, and opportunities and drive consistent reporting practices
• Bridge Business Applications, Digital Employee Experience, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Architecture
• Build relationships with Finance, HR, Supply Chain, and Operations
• Facilitate alignment across shared IT priorities, service commitments, and technology roadmaps
• Support organizational health, communication, engagement, inclusion, and continuous improvement
• Lead or co-lead high-priority special projects, transformation initiatives, and strategic workstreams from scoping through delivery

Chief of Staff, IT Business Systems – Digital Employee Experience

Sales

• Drive category performance and expand business within the designated region
• Develop and execute regional sales strategies to achieve revenue and market expansion targets
• Leverage regional market, customer, and competitive knowledge to make informed decisions
• Build and maintain relationships with key customers and regional partners
• Identify new business opportunities and develop strategies to penetrate untapped markets and expand the customer base
• Collaborate with marketing, product, and operations teams to execute regional category plans
• Monitor regional sales performance and track KPIs
• Provide actionable insights for continuous improvement
• Manage and mentor the regional sales team to achieve business goals

Sales Manager

Communications

• Develop and execute marketing strategies and campaigns for CaFÉ and ZAPP supporting customer engagement, awareness, adoption, retention, and revenue generation
• Evaluate marketing performance and recommend changes based on results, audience needs, and business priorities
• Manage CaFÉ’s e-blast program, including strategy, promotion, advertiser relationships, execution, and revenue performance
• Plan and manage paid digital and social media campaigns, including audience targeting, creative direction, and performance evaluation
• Develop communications strategies and plans for product launches, system changes, customer initiatives, operational updates, and other business needs
• Write, edit, produce, and manage customer-facing content across websites, blogs, newsletters, product announcements, help content, sales materials, and social media
• Lead marketing, promotional, and audience-engagement webinars and virtual events
• Support product-led educational webinars through promotion, audience communications, and marketing and visual materials
• Manage a portfolio of recurring communications, campaigns, product communications, social content, and other projects
• Maintain the CaFÉ and ZAPP marketing and communications calendar
• Develop project plans, coordinate contributors and reviewers, manage approvals, and complete projects
• Manage competing priorities, changing needs, risks, and capacity conflicts
• Translate subject-matter input from product and business teams into clear communications and marketing approaches
• Collaborate with Creative West’s marketing and communications team on brand alignment, organizational storytelling, and shared campaigns
• Represent Creative West, CaFÉ, and ZAPP at conferences, webinars, meetings, and sector events

Director, Corporate Strategy

Import/Export Analyst

Chief of Staff, IT Business Systems – Digital Employee Experience

Sales Manager

Communications and Marketing Manager