Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer
Chief of Staff to the Chief Product Officer
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Job Description
Western Digital is seeking a strategic and executionfocused Chief of Staff to support the Chief Product Officer (CPO). This highimpact role is responsible for driving operational alignment prioritizing strategic initiatives and enabling crossfunctional execution across the full scope of Western Digitals product portfolio. As a trusted advisor to the CPO you will manage daytoday business operations lead special projects and enhance organizational effectiveness across product engineering marketing and business teams.
You will be central to how the product organization operatesstreamlining processes aligning resources and helping translate vision into results.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner directly with the Chief Product Officer to drive strategy execution streamline operations and manage key priorities across Western Digitals product lines
- Lead and coordinate highimpact crossfunctional programs including independent execution of timesensitive or strategically critical initiatives must be a change agent
- Act as a primary liaison for the CPO with internal stakeholders executive leadership and external partners ensuring alignment and timely communication
- Participate in financial planning activities including budgeting headcount forecasting and strategic investment alignment
- Deliver strategic insights datadriven analysis and recommendations to improve product performance and organizational effectiveness
- Build and maintain operational systems that improve decisionmaking communication and execution across the product organization
- Prepare executivelevel presentations board materials and product strategy documents in collaboration with the CPO
- Ensure accountability and progress on key initiatives by managing followthrough reporting and priority tracking across departments
Qualifications :
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Engineering Business or a related field
- 10 years of experience in program/project management strategy or business operations in a technology company
- Strong understanding of Western Digitals products technologies and industry landscape especially around enterprise and cloud data storage
- Demonstrated capability in workforce planning financial modeling and crossfunctional coordination
- High financial acumen with experience supporting P&L budgeting and strategic investment planning
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence and align senior stakeholders
- Comfortable operating in dynamic fastpaced environments with complex crossfunctional challenges
- Highly analytical and resultsdriven; capable of making fast informed decisions with incomplete information
- Executive presence professionalism and discretion in handling confidential business matters
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience as Chief of Staff or in a strategic role supporting a Clevel executive
- Experience in enterprise hardware storage or infrastructure markets
- Familiarity with product development methodologies and lifecycle planning
- Advanced degree (MBA or MS in technical field) is a plus
Additional Information :
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 persons gender identity gender expression and genderrelated appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons 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 nondiscrimination 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 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 (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 employees 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.
- You will be eligible to participate in Western Digitals ShortTerm Incentive (STI) Plan 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 LongTerm 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 Digitals 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; taxadvantaged 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 Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
