Chief of Staff to the VP of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace (CREW)

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Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

As the Chief of Staff for Western Digital’s VP of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace (CREW), you’ll serve as a strategic thought partner and advisor for the VP and play a key leadership role in the organization. With a keen understanding of the business context, you’ll partner to translate business to people needs and establish and govern a diverse portfolio of strategic initiatives. The role requires high-energy, outstanding communication skills, forward-thinking, intimate understanding of the business and operations requirements, and drive to influence accountability and execution.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Create and manage the organization’s operational rhythm, allowing for transparency, consistency, and proactive planning.
• Establish and maintain cadence for key meetings and processes that help drive team and stakeholder connectedness, alignment, and engagement.
• Lead cross functional strategic and transformational projects, drive workforce planning, and project plan activities for the organization as needed.
• Manage a team that includes ELT / HQ liaison and CREW Financial Management (oversight of OPEX and CapEx processes).
• Influence a network of stakeholders driving engagement improvements and process simplification wherever possible.
• Curate a network of internal and external stakeholders that complement and provide insight to advance the WDC & CREW agenda.
• Foster a culture of trust, strengths-based development, healthy debate, and inclusion for all
• Provide partnership across teams for the organization of cross company projects / reporting / initiatives.

Communications Responsibilities: 

We’re looking for a strategic communicator to shape and amplify the voice of the CREW organization.

• Craft and drive the narrative for CREW’s vision, strategy, and key results across internal and external audiences.
• Lead all CREW communications, championing change and embedding best practices.
• Serve as the strategic liaison with Corporate Communications to ensure alignment between business goals and messaging.
• The CoS works closely with EVP’s and CoS of Finance, Global Operations and ELT; communication partners and business leaders across the enterprise, as well as our external vendors and partners.

REQUIRED

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 15 years of relevant work experience in a global, diverse organization
• 8 or more years in a strategic business or consulting role with a focus on talent operations, strategy and planning, or organizational change
• Demonstrated success leading large, complex projects with multi-function stakeholders and Teams

PREFERRED

• Strategic thinking with the ability to see the big picture, balancing short- and long-term objectives.
• Most importantly, the ability to interpret business strategy, connect it to the people priorities and see them through to successful implementation
• Organizational and team effectiveness, change leadership and design thinking experience required with the ability to advocate change through influence and trust rather than authority
• Ability to navigate complex and ambiguous environments with an agile mindset ready to pivot and iterate as needed
• Experience serving as an objective sounding board and ability to anticipate the needs of the VP of CREW and CREW team
• Proven success in managing Executive and Board of Directors messaging and presentations
• Disciplined execution skills with influence to effect change and break down barriers to ensure results and impact are delivered
• Ability to build trust and partnering relationships with executives and internal / external
• stakeholders of all levels
• Skilled at synthesizing large amounts of data to identify critical trends and present data in an impactful way and a consulting mindset
• Ability to ideate, test, iterate and implement new initiatives with a keen focus on change management and development of strong ecosystem partnerships for collective success

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/25/2025 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York.  This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws.  You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either Western Digital’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Western Digital’s Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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