Chief of Staff to the VP of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace (CREW)
Chief of Staff to the VP of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace (CREW)
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Job Description
As the Chief of Sta for Western Digitals VP of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace (CREW) youll 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 youll 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 organizations 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:
Were looking for a strategic communicator to shape and amplify the voice of the CREW organization.
- Craft and drive the narrative for CREWs 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 EVPs and CoS of Finance Global Operations and ELT; communication partners and business leaders across the enterprise as well as our external vendors and partners.
Qualifications :
REQUIRED
- Bachelors 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 eectiveness 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 eect 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
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 gender-related 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 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 to advise us of your accommodation 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 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.
- 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 Digitals 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 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; 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 Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.
Notice To Candidates: Please be aware that Western Digital and its subsidiaries will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment. Should you encounter any such requests please report it immediately to Western Digital Ethics Helpline or email .
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
