Director of Talent Acquisition - Product & Technology

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®, ™ 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.

The Director of Talent Acquisition – Product & Technology serves as the executive recruiting partner and strategic talent leader for our most critical innovation organizations. This role oversees the full recruiting lifecycle for high-impact technology roles, drives long-term workforce strategies, and partners directly with senior product and engineering leadership, including ELT members, to shape the talent capabilities needed for Western Digital’s future.

The ideal leader brings deep functional expertise in Product, Engineering, and Technical recruiting; mastery of modern AI recruiting tools; exceptional relationship-building skills; and the ability to translate market data and talent insights into strategic business decisions.

Strategic Talent Leadership

• Partner with ELT members, SVPs, and VPs across Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, Hardware, Firmware, and Software to build and execute global talent strategies.

• Translate product roadmaps and engineering org designs into proactive workforce and capability planning.

• Coach executives on technical hiring trends, global market shifts, and future-of-work skillsets.

• Deliver executive-level insights using Linked In Talent Insights, competitive intelligence, and talent market analytics.

Executive Partnership & Stakeholder Influence

• Serve as a trusted advisor to CPO, CTO, Product GMs, and Engineering leaders.

• Influence leaders to adopt consistent hiring processes, structured evaluation, and modern assessment strategies.

• Drive executive alignment around role definition, candidate personas, and long-term pipeline strategy.

• Manage escalations and build executive-level confidence in TA effectiveness.

Advanced Technical Recruiting & Assessment

• Oversee full-cycle recruiting for highly technical and niche roles including PM, TPM, Firmware, Hardware, Software, Systems, Cloud, Architecture, AI/ML, and Platform Engineering.

• Facilitate structured processes, rigorous technical assessments, and interview calibration across hiring teams.

• Champion VBI, BBI, and structured interview methodology; ensure hiring teams are trained, aligned, and compliant.

• Develop technical assessment in partnership with business to develop talent bar and assessment continuity.

AI, Automation & Sourcing Innovation

• Lead team-level adoption of AI recruiting tools, prompt engineering, sourcing automation, and talent intelligence platforms.

• Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and implement best-of-breed tools to enhance speed, quality, and scalability.

• Ensure the TA function remains at the forefront of AI-driven recruiting innovation.

Pipeline Development & Talent Intelligence

• Build and oversee long-term pipelines for critical technical roles and leadership talent.

• Leverage deep expertise with Linked In Recruiter, Linked In Insights
  , and advanced Boolean search strategies.

• Guide hiring leaders in identifying evolving skillsets required to build the workforce of the future.

• Oversee market mapping and competitive talent intelligence efforts.

Operational Excellence & Team…