Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy (Innovation & Growth)

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, and WD_BLACK™ Professional brands.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy (Innovation & Growth) will drive initiatives to uncover new market opportunities for Western Digital (WD) both within and outside of HDDs. This role will involve driving internal processes to incubate new product ideas and developing external partnerships to build WD’s next new business opportunity.

This individual will have the opportunity to work across multiple functions in WD including, but not limited to, research and engineering, manufacturing, finance, sales etc.

We are looking for a person with the initiative to run workstreams independently, experience engaging senior stakeholders internally and externally, and an extensive understanding of deeptech industries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Run deepdives on deeptech sectors to identify and incubate new business opportunities for WD, such as quantum computing, edge AI, decarbonization, medtech etc.
• Design go-to-market strategies for new business opportunities
• Collaborate with Sales and Platforms to unlock new HDD opportunities with non-hyperscale customers
• Assist in the organization of WD’s internal start-up process
• Partner CTO-office and Corporate Development team to build out WD’s multiplier network of universities, national labs and venture capital funds.
• Support Corporate Development team with deal sourcing and evaluation of non-data storage investments

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering required; MBA/MS from top tier university strongly preferred.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in strategy, consulting, VC/PE or investment banking. Hardware industry experience required (semiconductors, energy, medtech)
• Proven leadership experience in corporate planning and growth initiatives.
• Self-motivated, results-driven, and adaptable to fast-paced environments.
• Experience with industries related to advanced compute, energy/decarbonization and medtech.

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 person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s 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