Program Manager, Sustainability Communications & Engagement

Location: San Jose CA 
Department: Corporate Sustainability 
Reports To: Director Sustainability Disclosure 

Job Type: Full-Time 

We are seeking a sustainability communications and employee engagement expert to join our corporate sustainability team. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing ESG communication strategies that amplify stakeholder value engaging employees to drive change management through strategic activities and events and designing programs to embed sustainability into key business functions and decisions. 

The ideal candidate will be an expert communicator with deep understanding of ESG frameworks concepts and change theories combined with strong capabilities to engage employees and influence cross-functional groups without direct authority.  

Job Overview: 

We are seeking a sustainability communications and employee engagement expert to join our corporate sustainability team. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing ESG communication strategies that amplify stakeholder value engaging employees to drive change management through strategic activities and events and designing programs to embed sustainability into key business functions and decisions. 

The ideal candidate will be an expert communicator with deep understanding of ESG frameworks concepts and change theories combined with strong capabilities to engage employees and influence cross-functional groups without direct authority.  

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Sustainability communications 

• Develop and implement robust communication strategies that build trust drive engagement and enhance reputation. 

• Collaborate with Marketing PR and Comms to develop timely meaningful and high-quality assets including blogs press releases white papers and thought leadership articles.   

• Develop resources and templates to enable Sales and support customer-facing sustainability communications. 

• Manage maintain and update content and resources on WD sustainability websites.   

• Support development of sustainability program decks presentations and artifacts.  

• Drive strategy programming and narratives for sustainability efforts at key industry conferences and company events.   

1. Employee engagement educations and trainings 

• Organize events and activities to engage and mobilize employees for sustainability causes.  

• Design employee-facing sustainability training and education programs driving high participation rates and concrete actions.  

• Create and promote employee-facing sustainability resources including playbooks toolkits and how-to-guides.   

• Establish a sustainability-focused Employee Resource Group (ERG) and relevant charter to help educate and engage the broader organization.   

1. Embed sustainability into business operations and decisions 

• Build strong relationships with sustainability champions in all business functions.  

• Engage all functions to identify and incubate ESG-related change management opportunities establish business cases and develop meaningful and actionable commitments and KPIs in alignment with business goals and values.   

• Track quantify and communicate the value and impacts of sustainability initiatives.  

• Integrate sustainability commitments and KPIs into relevant teams annual planning and goal setting processes.  

Qualifications :

Education:  

• Bachelors degree in communications marketing environmental science sustainability or a related field. A Masters degree is a plus. 

Experience and skills: 

• 7 years of experience in ESG communication and engagement.  

• Sustainability domain knowledge and expertise (climate environment water circularity etc.) 

• Proven record in developing effective communication strategies and generating high impact content and stories for all key audiences.  

• Experience in sustainability training design and technical writing. 

• Experience in mobilizing a big group of employees and organizing sustainability activities.  

• Experience in developing business cases and driving change management efforts.  

• Excellent project management skills and ability to execute in a complex fast-paced large corporate environment. 

• Natural affinity to be reflective to learn from challenges and demonstrate resilience. 

• Highly motivated self-starter results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple deliverables at the same time and drive projects to completion. 

Why Join Us 

• Be part of a leading organization dedicated to making a positive impact on the world through sustainable practices. 

• Work in a dynamic and collaborative environment that values innovation sustainability and personal growth. 

• Competitive compensation package and benefits. 

Western Digital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. 

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 12/4/25 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.

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