Senior Talent Acquisition Manager – Strategic Initiatives & Talent Insights

• Full-time
• Job Type (exemption status):
  Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Business Function:
  Talent Acquisition

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 ™.

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.

The role

We hire roughly 3000‑5000 people a year across four continents — manufacturing technicians, early‑career engineers, corporate professionals, and executives. Behind every one of those hires is a decision: where to invest, which pipelines to build, which programs to scale. We're looking for the leader who turns our hiring data into those decisions and turns those decisions into programs that ship.

This is not a recruiting role. You won't carry requisitions. You'll own the strategy, insight, and program engine that makes our recruiters, hiring leaders, and executives better at what they do.

About the team

Global Talent Acquisition and Mobility Insights & Programs serves as the strategic arm of our global Talent Acquisition organization. Rather than recruiting directly, we design and implement programs, processes, and hiring practices that help recruiting teams and hiring leaders attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent.

The function has two teams. Strategic Offerings — the team you'll lead — owns insight, workforce intelligence, strategic programs and talent brands. Talent Success partners with our recruiting teams and hiring managers, customer‑success style, to make sure what we build is adopted and delivers.

Our FY27 agenda is organized around five capabilities:
Workforce & Talent Intelligence;
Critical & Future Skills Pipeline;
Scalable Delivery & RPO;
Recruiting Motions & Talent Pathways; and Client & Hiring Manager Enablement. You'll own the first outright and shape the rest.

What you’ll do

Turn hiring data into executive insight

Own the quarterly business overviews (QBOs) and business reviews (QBRs) that Talent Acquisition presents to the CEO and executive team — and that may reach the board. Decide what matters, cut what doesn’t, and make the story land at that altitude.

Build our workforce and talent intelligence capability: hiring demand, pipeline health, time‑to‑fill, cost, quality and labor‑market signals across Direct Labor, Early Career, Indirect Labor and Executive hiring.

Partner with Finance and HR on annual operating plan (AOP) headcount planning, so hiring capacity matches business demand before reqs open.

Lead the strategic initiatives portfolio

Run a multi-program portfolio end to end — intake, prioritization, business cases, roadmaps, governance and benefits tracking.

Drive cross‑regional programs across the US, APAC and EMEA, from RPO scale‑up to new talent pathways for critical…