Director, Corporate Strategy

• Job Type (exemption status):
  Exempt position - Please see related compensation & benefits details below
• Salary Range:
  
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• Business Function:
  Corporate Strategy

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy.

As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in.

We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide.

This isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.

We’re looking for people who want to build, solve, and operate at that level.

Join us and let’s shape the future of data.

• Oversee market intelligence activities including market sizing (TAM), customer landscape analysis, market dynamics, competitive landscape, and substitution threats.
• Act as though leader within the organization and maintain perspectives on the core business segment (HDD) and adjacent new venture markets.
  
  Keep up to date on demand signals, technology, and customer behavior shift.
• Develop new analytical models and insights to help Western Digital navigate future industry trends, including AI-driven data growth, cloud capital expenditure cycles, and storage tiering economics.

• Partner with venture teams to size new emerging markets, develop proprietary market views as WD offerings mature for key segments.
• Assess where Western Digital's technology, manufacturing scale, and customer relationships create a right to play, and where entry would demand capabilities the company would have to build, buy, or partner for.
• Recommend which opportunities merit deeper diligence or investment and which to monitor or set aside, and define the leading indicators that would change the answer.

• Support the regular business cadence, including quarterly market reviews for senior leadership and the annual strategy cycle, contributing the market outlook and scenarios that anchor long-range planning.
• Partner with other members of the strategy team on ad hoc projects, bringing market intelligence into growth, portfolio, ecosystem, and investment work.
• Partner with functional leaders across sales, product, marketing, and finance to support business activities where clear market intelligence is needed — pricing and capacity decisions, roadmap choices, account planning, and business cases.
• Maintain a current, evidence-based perspective on the competitive landscape,covering capacity additions, technology roadmaps, cost positions, and commercial behavior.
• Assess where competitive moves change Western Digital's positioning and flag the implications early enough to act on them.

• Own relationships with external industry research analysts, serving as Western Digital's primary point of contact and understand gaps in perspective between 3rdparty and internal company perspectives.
• Manage the research portfolio across core and new venture markets – identify gaps, new sources of insights, and help manage vendor portfolio.

• Minimum 6 years of experience spanning top-tier management consulting, in-house corporate strategy, or market intelligence roles.
• Experience building market models and projections from scratch, incorporating third-party perspectives, primary data sources, and expert interviews.
• Proven track record of supporting and leading complex strategy projects from hypothesis development to recommendations.
• Comfort operating with quantitative rigor in ambiguous,…