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

• Serve as the primary point of contact between the Slack COE/ELT and SOPS, GIC, and Deal Desk
• Ensure Slack's interests are represented in cross-functional policy and process decisions, including G4G planning cycles
• Influence and shape operational policy on behalf of Slack leadership
• Advocate for go-to-market strategies that accelerate growth and remove seller friction
• Drive alignment on deal structure, compensation design, and quoting policy with Deal Desk, GIC, and SOPS
• Synthesize field, COE, and ELT inputs into data-backed narratives that influence stakeholder decisions
• Identify policy or process gaps creating headwinds for Slack and lead resolution efforts end-to-end
• Partner with counterpart hires across Strategic Ops, Compensation, and Deal Desk to ensure a unified voice for Slack
• Report directly to Zach Ciliotta-Young and partner with the Slack COE and ELT and central operating leadership

Senior Director, Strategic Operations

• Serve as the primary point of contact and relationship owner for key national and enterprise accounts
• Coordinate national account strategy with regional and local business development, project management, and clinical teams
• Resolve service issues and ensure smooth implementation and onboarding
• Manage procurement, operations, and executive-level stakeholder relationships
• Act as an escalation point for high-priority client issues and ensure timely resolution
• Represent the customer voice internally to influence product and service improvements
• Identify opportunities to expand into adjacent verticals
• Develop go-to-market strategies and pilot programs for new account types or service models
• Work with commercial, clinical, administrative, operational, and CardioNavix leadership teams when applicable
• Provide routine progress and issue updates to customers, management, and operations personnel
• Travel as required to manage vendor and customer relations, performance, negotiations, and issues
• Multitask remotely and while traveling to progress and follow through on open issues and projects
• Instruct new employees and coworkers
• Apply CDL Company Objectives of “Best Appropriate Patient Care”
• Perform other duties as assigned

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