Senior Director, Corporate Development

M&A Lifecycle Ownership

• Own the full M&A lifecycle end-to-end: target identification due diligence valuation structuring negotiation and close across both the core HDD business and new ventures spanning a wide spectrum of deep tech opportunities including but not limited to photonics magnetics and nano-fabrication.
• Lead complex transaction execution including mergers acquisitions joint ventures spin outs/ins creative capital structures divestitures and vertical integration aligned to Western Digitals strategic priorities.
• Develop rigorous valuation frameworks financial models and deal structures.

Deal Pipeline and Portfolio Optimization 

• Build and maintain a proprietary deal pipeline across data storage AI/cloud adjacencies and deep-tech by engaging with bankers investors startups and operators to source high-quality opportunities aligned with Western Digitals strategic direction.

• Optimize the corporate portfolio through appropriate acquisitions divestitures and strategic partnerships and evaluate build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions for new capability development technology acquisition vertical integration and market entry.

Corporate Venture & Strategic Investments

• Support corporate venture investment strategy by building relationships with VCs accelerators and ecosystem partners to source and invest in high-potential technology companies and startups that are aligned with WDs strategic priorities.
• Assess emerging technologies and business models in storage data infrastructure AI and deep-tech related to New Ventures for potential minority investment or strategic partnership.

Executive Communication

• Deliver investment recommendations and executive briefings to the Executive Leadership Team (C-suite) and Board of Directors to translate complex deal opportunities into clear actionable investment priorities.
• Synthesize market intelligence competitive analysis and financial modeling into compelling investment theses and strategic recommendations.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with key stakeholders across the business (Engineering Product Finance Commercial Legal HR) to coordinate on key deal activities and integration planning with long-range strategic plans and integration planning.

Qualifications :

Required

• Minimum 810 years in M&A investment banking private equity corporate development venture capital or corporate ventures. 
• Industry experience in a highly technical field required e.g. storage semiconductor infrastructure aerospace/defense biopharma telecom etc.
• Proven M&A execution and deal track record with full-cycle transaction ownership including deep experience with financial modeling due diligence negotiation and post-merger activity.
• Exceptional financial modeling capability with the ability to independently build sophisticated valuation and deal models from scratch.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to think through and execute creative deal structures and economics to onboard new partners and acquisition targets and align on value creation.
• Proven cross-functional deal management experience across Legal Finance Product Engineering and business unit stakeholders.
• Track record of building and leveraging relationships across bankers investors advisors operators and internal stakeholders.
• Experienced in presenting to and influencing C-suite and Board-level executives .

Preferred

• AI-adjacent experience (data storage software memory subsystems) and/or prior experience working with or for hyperscale cloud providers semiconductor companies or large OEMs.
• Direct venture investing experience in deep-tech with a track record of sourcing structuring and managing minority investments.
• Active external network (bankers VCs advisors) to support independent deal flow.
• Experience with cross-border M&A and international transaction structuring.
• Familiarity with various corporate venture capital models and strategic investment portfolio management.

Education

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science Physics or a related technical field.

MBA from top-tier business school preferred

Additional Information :

WD 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

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Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/06/2026 (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 this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time