Director of Talent Acquisition Product & Technology

The Director of Talent Acquisition Product & Technology serves as the executive recruiting partner and strategic talent leader for our most critical innovation organizations. This role oversees the full recruiting lifecycle for high-impact technology roles drives long-term workforce strategies and partners directly with senior product and engineering leadership including ELT members to shape the talent capabilities needed for Western Digitals future.

The ideal leader brings deep functional expertise in Product Engineering and Technical recruiting; mastery of modern AI recruiting tools; exceptional relationship-building skills; and the ability to translate market data and talent insights into strategic business decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Talent Leadership

• Partner with ELT members SVPs and VPs across Product Management Engineering Architecture Hardware Firmware and Software to build and execute global talent strategies.
• Translate product roadmaps and engineering org designs into proactive workforce and capability planning.
• Coach executives on technical hiring trends global market shifts and future-of-work skillsets.
• Deliver executive-level insights using LinkedIn Talent Insights competitive intelligence and talent market analytics.

Executive Partnership & Stakeholder Influence

• Serve as a trusted advisor to CPO CTO Product GMs and Engineering leaders.
• Influence leaders to adopt consistent hiring processes structured evaluation and modern assessment strategies.
• Drive executive alignment around role definition candidate personas and long-term pipeline strategy.
• Manage escalations and build executive-level confidence in TA effectiveness.

Advanced Technical Recruiting & Assessment

• Oversee full-cycle recruiting for highly technical and niche roles including PM TPM Firmware Hardware Software Systems Cloud Architecture AI/ML and Platform Engineering.
• Facilitate structured processes rigorous technical assessments and interview calibration across hiring teams.
• Champion VBI BBI and structured interview methodology; ensure hiring teams are trained aligned and compliant.
• Develop technical assessment in partnership with business to develop talent bar and assessment continuity.

AI Automation & Sourcing Innovation

• Lead team-level adoption of AI recruiting tools prompt engineering sourcing automation and talent intelligence platforms.
• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and implement best-of-breed tools to enhance speed quality and scalability.
• Ensure the TA function remains at the forefront of AI-driven recruiting innovation.

Pipeline Development & Talent Intelligence

• Build and oversee long-term pipelines for critical technical roles and leadership talent.
• Leverage deep expertise with LinkedIn Recruiter LinkedIn Insights and advanced Boolean search strategies.
• Guide hiring leaders in identifying evolving skillsets required to build the workforce of the future.
• Oversee market mapping and competitive talent intelligence efforts.

Operational Excellence & Team Leadership

• Lead coach and elevate a high-performing team of technical recruiters and sourcers.
• Establish metrics KPIs and dashboards to monitor pipeline health quality of hire and recruiter effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement process standardization and consistency across global technology recruiting.
• Partner with HR Compensation Talent Development and Diversity teams to deliver integrated holistic talent solutions.

Candidate Experience & Employer Brand

• Ensure a world-class transparent candidate experience for senior technical and product talent.
• Collaborate with HR and Marketing to refine employer brand messaging tailored to product and engineering audiences.
• Act as an ambassador of Western Digitals culture technology and innovation story.

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• 1015 years of recruiting experience with at least 6 years leading teams in Product Engineering or Technology recruiting.
• Deep functional expertise and credibility with technology leaders across engineering R&D firmware hardware or software development.
• Expert-level proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Talent Insights; certifications preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of AI recruiting tools prompt engineering sourcing automations and talent intelligence platforms.
• Strong executive presence with proven ability to influence C-level and SVP-level stakeholders.
• Experience designing and deploying structured interview methodologies (VBI BBI).
• Skilled in facilitating technical case studies panel interviews and senior-level evaluation processes.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate product and technology strategies into talent needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading TA for a global matrixed technology organization.
• Familiarity with hardware semiconductor storage AI/ML or enterprise software domains.
• Experience with high-growth or transformation environments.
• Expertise with talent intelligence platforms (Eightfold SeekOut Gem Ashby).
• Change management experience related to TA transformation or process modernization.

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 (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 :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time