Western Digital · 3 weeks ago
Director, Organizational Development and Strategic Workforce Planning
5601 Great Oaks Parkway, San Jose, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
$192K/yr - $256K/yr
7+ years expWestern Digital is a company focused on powering global innovation in technology. The Director of Organizational Development and Strategic Workforce Planning will lead the enterprise-wide approach for workforce planning and organizational design, partnering with senior leadership to implement scalable frameworks aligned with business objectives.
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Responsibilities
Design and implement a scalable, enterprise-wide organizational design, team effectiveness and workforce planning frameworks aligned to business objectives and growth trajectory
Act as trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating business strategy into organizational structure, capability requirements, and workforce implications
Develop predictive workforce models that identify talent gaps and risks, and future capability needs across critical roles and functions
Create enterprise standards, tools, and methodologies for organizational design and strategic workforce planning that can be deployed consistently across WD
Build organizational design and workforce planning capabilities in HR business partners and people leaders through training, coaching, and hands-on facilitation
Establish governance processes and decision frameworks that ensure organizational changes are data-driven and strategically sound
Partner directly with senior HR business partners to diagnose organizational effectiveness challenges and design fit-for-purpose solutions
Lead high-visibility organizational design projects that restructure teams, clarify accountabilities, and optimize spans of control
Serve as primary designer and project lead on enterprise-wide organizational development and effectiveness initiatives with significant business impact
Partner with Workforce Analytics to translate workforce data into actionable insights on organizational health, talent distribution, and structural efficiency
Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms that give leaders visibility into workforce composition, turnover risk, and readiness for future needs
Apply evidence-based approaches to test and validate organizational design decisions before implementation
Qualification
Required
5+ years of progressive experience in organizational design and strategic workforce planning, ideally in complex, matrixed environments
7+ years leading enterprise-wide organizational development and effectiveness initiatives with measurable business impact
Demonstrated expertise across multiple OD disciplines: organizational design, workforce planning, team effectiveness and change management
Exceptional business acumen with ability to connect organizational design decisions to financial outcomes and operational performance
Advanced project management skills with track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives on time
Strong analytical and systems thinking abilities; comfortable working with workforce data and translating it into strategic recommendations
Proven ability to facilitate difficult conversations and build consensus among senior stakeholders with competing priorities
Executive presence and credibility to advise senior leaders on sensitive organizational topics
Thrives in ambiguity—able to move forward when parameters are unclear, information is incomplete, or priorities are shifting, while bringing structure and clarity to complex situations
Skilled at working across functions (HRBP, Talent, Total Rewards, Analytics, Finance, Legal) to deliver integrated solutions
Collaborator who can navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in complex organizational environments
Benefits
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
Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan
Company
Western Digital
Western Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$901.37M2023-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $1.37M
2023-01-31Post Ipo Equity· $900M
2015-09-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Sesh Tirumala
SVP, CIO
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Alvin B. Phillips
Founder
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