Sr. Manager, Global Early Career Talent Programs & Strategic Enablement

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

The Sr. Manager, Global Early Career Talent Programs & Strategic Enablement will serve as part of the Early Career Talent (ECT) leadership team and partner with our executives, HR leadership team, and hiring leaders to develop, implement, and execute customized strategies to enable our global early career recruiting efforts to attract, and retain, best-in-class early career talent globally. They will lead four key pillars within our Early Career Enablement Team:

1. Programs: Oversee a global team of program managers. Partnering with business stakeholders, develop, execute, maintain, and manage a cohesive program in a hybrid approach to support interns, new college graduates, rotational programs for early career professionals, apprenticeship, and other workforce of the future initiatives.
   1. Oversee program development as a recruitment tool through alternative channels (e.g. military, community colleges, bootcamps, etc)
   2. Partner, and support, research based programs including PhD programs.
2. Partnerships:  Own strategic planning as it relates to our external and internal partnerships globally. Ensure local resources, and the business, have the tools and training to execute partnership strategy in their respective regions.
   1. Universities: Establish and maintain a core university partnership model, ensuring strong employment brand and positioning Western Digital as employer of choice. Continuous evaluation of partnerships as necessary.
   2. R&D Partnerships: Partnering with our CTO Office for R&D, align strategic core partnerships with critical research partners externally as it relates to our talent pipeline needs.
   3. Alternative Channel Partnerships: Explore and position an alternative talent channel to ensure we explore options to support our Workforce of the Future initiatives and alternative methods of entry into early career roles.
   4. Internal Partnerships: Partner internally to provide training and resources for business to help support local execution of recruitment & retention/engagement related activities. Partnering with ERGs to support long-term retention efforts.
3. Events: Evaluate and manage Event Relations specialists who handle recruitment event activities globally, ensuring proper resources, tools, collateral, and strategy is provided to ensure a seamless recruitment event that can pipeline talent to our recruiting delivery team. Partners closely with marketing, facilities, or external vendors to ensure Western Digital brand is appropriately being managed, and ensuring appropriate resources are representing Western Digital.
4. Strategy, Solutions & Operations Enablement: Oversee our strategy, solutions & operations enablement team, focused on providing project management, workforce planning, process improvement, resource management, governance & compliance, and brand enablement related support to the ECT team.

• 8+ years experience within Early Career / Emerging Talent Recruiting, with extensive focus across both program management, event management, and recruiting delivery, and at least 5 years people leader experience with direct reports and global experience
• Global experience required within talent acquisition function
• This position may require travel up to 50% of the time, including extensive international travel.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 01/13/2026 (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

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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