Responsibilities

• Own WD’s corporate content strategy and editorial roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities, marketing campaigns, product initiatives, and industry trends.
• Define content KPIs, build reporting frameworks, and present content performance and strategy recommendations to marketing leadership.
• Identify gaps in content capabilities and make recommendations for tools, talent, and processes to scale the function.
• Develop, write, and publish original content across WD’s blog, website, social media channels, executive communications, customer stories, video scripts, presentations, and external thought leadership platforms.
• Serve as the primary author for strategic content initiatives, transforming complex technical concepts into compelling narratives that resonate with enterprise, technology, and executive audiences.
• Develop and lead WD's YouTube and video content strategy, including scripted series, product explainers, executive interviews, and event content; partner with internal creative teams and production partners on execution.
• Lead and manage WD’s shared editorial and content calendar, coordinating priorities across Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing, Communications, Social Media, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partner with product marketing, engineering, research, and executive teams to gather insights, conduct interviews, and develop technically accurate content that reflects WD’s innovation leadership.
• Manage relationships with external content vendors, freelancers, and production partners; develop a scalable content operating model as the function grows.
• Identify and proactively develop content opportunities around key industry themes including AI infrastructure, cloud, data storage, digital transformation, and emerging technologies.
• Drive content distribution and activation strategy across owned channels, partnering with creative, social, web, and digital teams to maximize reach and impact.
• Support executive thought leadership through authored articles, speaking abstracts, presentations, keynote content, and industry commentary.
• Own content performance — establishing KPIs, applying SEO best practices, and using analytics to continuously improve effectiveness, engagement, and discoverability.
• Build and govern WD's editorial standards, style guide, and content quality framework across all corporate marketing outputs.
• Manage content budget including tools, production, and external resources.