Responsibilities - Build and execute the P&E internal communications strategy and calendar aligned to WD’s product roadmap, operating model, and growth priorities. - Translate corporate and product strategy into clear, employee-ready narratives for technical audiences. - Own communications intake, prioritization, and sequencing for P&E, balancing urgency, impact, and employee capacity to ensure clarity and reduce noise. - Draft and ghostwrite org‑wide emails, updates, narratives, Q&As, and presentations for P&E leaders, often working from high‑level inputs and shaping them into clear, employee‑ready content. - Coach leaders on tone, clarity, and cadence to strengthen credibility and trust. - Write, edit, and publish high‑quality employee‑facing content across multiple formats, including org‑wide emails, articles, newsletters, messaging, narratives, and campaign materials. - Serve as a hands‑on writer for the P&E organization with a focus on —owning first drafts and final copy, not just review or approvals. - Translate complex product, engineering, and operating model topics into clear, engaging, and accessible stories for technical and non‑technical audiences alike. - Act as editor-in-chief for P&E channels (e.g., SharePoint, Teams, newsletters), ensuring message discipline and reduced noise. - Maintain a consistent cadence of written communications that keeps P&E employees informed, aligned, and engaged—balancing clarity, brevity, and narrative coherence. - Produce, project manage and run the P&E All Hands/Ask Me Anythings, including content, logistics, delivery and follow up. - Lead communications for P&E change (reorgs, mechanism rollouts, operating model shifts), connecting the “what/why/so what” to business outcomes. - Partner tightly with HR, and program leads to plan sequencing and ensure a successful campaign. - Proactively identify emerging issues, points of employee confusion, or change risks within P&E; surface insights and recommendations to leaders to enable timely, confident action. - Source and elevate stories about product milestones, engineering innovation, and culture moments that show how our values come to life (Customers, Results, Connection, Excellence, Innovation). - Share product stories across WD to showcase innovation, strengthen company-wide understanding of our roadmap and deepen connection to our mission and values. - Set targets and analyze channel/event metrics, pulse feedback, and sentiment; recommend improvements that increase reach, comprehension, and action. - Serve as a connector between Strategic Comms, P&E leadership, HR, Internal Comms and Corporate Comms, and program teams to maintain alignment with WD’s broader narrative, mission, and brand standards. Requirements - 8+ years in employee/internal communications (or adjacent roles) with proven success in complex, technical organizations. - Exceptional writing and editing skills; ability to translate engineering/product topics into clear, human centered messages. - Demonstrated experience planning and executing change communications across large, distributed teams. - Strong stakeholder management and consultative skills; confident advising senior leaders and pushing back with data and rationale. - Channel operations experience (SharePoint, Teams/Slack, newsletters, town halls); strong slides/story design in PowerPoint. - Program/project management rigor and high attention to detail. Nice-to-have - Fluency in the software/hardware product lifecycle, and data‑center/cloud ecosystems. - Familiarity with the role data storage plays in AI. - Experience building measurement frameworks for internal communications (reach, engagement, comprehension, action).