Communications Project Specialist

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$88K/yr – $117K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 10 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and optimize the integrated communications calendar and execution workflow across executive and employee programs, ensuring alignment, tracking milestones, and driving continuous improvement.

  • Manage calendars, milestones, and leadership engagements to enable strategic initiatives.
  • Coordinate cross-functional planning and timely delivery across multiple workstreams.
  • Monitor metrics, dashboards, and post-event feedback to inform planning.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and manage the organization's integrated communications calendar, ensuring visibility and alignment across executive, employee, and corporate communications activities.
  • Manage communication milestones, deadlines, launches, events, and leadership engagement opportunities to support successful execution of strategic communications initiatives.
  • Identify scheduling conflicts and ensure communications activities are prioritized and sequenced appropriately.
  • Support planning and project management across executive communications, employee communications, creative communications, and functional stakeholders for shared communications initiatives and campaigns.
  • Track action items, deliverables, approvals, and deadlines across multiple projects and workstreams.
  • Facilitate information flow and stakeholder alignment across the communications team, executive leaders, and partner organizations.
  • Serve as a connective operational resource for the team, helping ensure work moves forward with clarity, accountability, and consistency.
  • Support the planning and execution of communications and engagement activities within executive-led functions, including functional town halls, leadership forums, and key communications moments within supported organizations.
  • Manage planning logistics, attendee communications, meeting materials, and follow-up activities in partnership with communications leads and functional stakeholders.
  • Administer post-event surveys, consolidate feedback and insights, and track follow-up actions to support continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 3-5+ years of experience in project coordination, communications operations, executive administration, or event planning
  • Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives and working with senior leaders.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools, including Outlook, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
  • Curiosity and demonstrated ability to leverage AI-powered productivity tools to improve efficiency, organization, reporting, content development, and team operations.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to anticipate needs proactively.
  • Experience tracking metrics, creating reports, and maintaining dashboards.

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

Western Digital

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At Western Digital, our vision is to unleash the power and value of data. For decades, we have been at the forefront of storage innovation, which fuels our mission to be the market leader in data storage, delivering solutions for now and the future. We are committed to providing scalable, sustainable technology for the world’s hyperscalers, enterprises, and cloud providers, and delivering cutting-edge innovation that will drive the next generation of AI-driven data workloads. All that we do is powered by our people, who are united in a common purpose of creating solutions that move the world forward. Learn more at www.westerndigital.com.

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