Director, Strategic Communications, IT

Requirements

• 10+ years of communications experience, including significant executive and internal communications experience supporting senior leaders.
• Demonstrated success serving as a trusted communications advisor and candid coach to senior executives and leadership teams.
• Skilled at bringing structure and focus to fast-moving, ambiguous environments while maintaining strong stakeholder relationships.
• Experience leading communications for a large, global function or organization, ideally within a technology-driven environment.
• Exceptional writing, storytelling, and executive content development skills, with the ability to translate complex business and technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives.
• Strong understanding of executive communications, employee engagement, organizational communications, and thought leadership.
• Strong executive presence, business acumen, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across all levels of an organization.
• Highly collaborative and adaptable, with strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint and experience leveraging modern communications technologies, including AI-enabled tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred

• Experience in technology, semiconductor, infrastructure, cloud, storage, or other complex B2B industries preferred.

Benefits

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including 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; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.