Director, Strategic Communications, IT

Responsibilities

• Executive Communications and Strategic Counsel
• - Serve as the primary communications advisor to the CIO, providing strategic counsel and executive communications support.
• - Develop and execute an integrated communications strategy that strengthens the CIO’s leadership platform and advances key business and organizational priorities.
• - Shape compelling narratives around IT strategy, technology, innovation, AI, and the evolving role of IT in enabling WD’s business.
• - Develop executive content and messaging, including presentations, speeches, briefing materials, leadership communications, talking points, video, and multimedia content.
• - Support the CIO’s internal and external engagements, including employee forums, leadership meetings, industry events, speaking opportunities, social content, and thought leadership.
• - Establish effective planning and preparation processes that ensure key engagements are purposeful, consistent, and impactful.
• - Proactively identify opportunities to strengthen the CIO’s visibility and engagement with key audiences.
• IT Organizational Communications and Engagement
• - Lead the communications strategy within the IT organization, partnering with IT leadership and communications colleagues to drive alignment around its strategy, priorities, culture, and business objectives.

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

Benefits

• 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.