Full-Time Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy
Western Digital is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy. The career level for this job opening is Senior Manager and is accepting San Jose, CA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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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 involves 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
Requirements:
- 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.