Senior Manager, Executive Communications

Required:

Deep executive communications experience supporting a VP and above, including Legal departments and Corporate Strategy functions. Experience supporting Government Affairs a plus.

Excellent content development and writing skills, with specific focus on executive presentations, blog posts, video, and messaging

Strong stakeholder management skills and executive presence

Able to build relationships at all levels of the organization with the ability to manage and influence direct and virtual teams

Strong ability to translate complex topics into easy to digest storylines

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Western Digital is seeking a savvy and skilled Communications expert to join our Executive Communications team. This role will be responsible for providing executive communications support to two Executive Leadership Team members.

As Senior Manager, Executive Communications, you’ll be a key collaborator responsible for building and leading executive level messaging platforms that reach employees, customers, and industry influencers. You will be responsible for developing organization-wide communication strategies and messaging hierarchy, content and messaging for internal and external audiences, as well as partnering with the broader communications communities across the business.

You will be responsible for preparing executive briefings for investor, customer, supplier, and partner meetings, content, and messaging for internal and external events, as well as content for social media, blogs and online assets.

You will work closely with the Chief of Staff offices for the Executives you will be supporting, Communications leads, and Executives across the company.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Develop comprehensive communication plans and strategies that span internal and external audiences and that support the objectives of executive leadership and their organizations

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 WD_BLACK™.

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.