Senior Manager, Brand Strategy

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$171K/yr – $227K/yrSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Own and guide WD’s global brand strategy, translating strategy into scalable platforms, narratives, and governance while collaborating with leadership and cross-functional teams to ensure consistent execution.

  • Lead development of brand platforms and narratives
  • Build scalable brand systems and governance frameworks

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead development of WD’s global brand positioning across enterprise and consumer portfolios
  • Translate business strategy into clear brand platforms that guide campaigns, launches, and storytelling
  • Define category positioning that strengthens WD’s leadership across AI infrastructure, data innovation, and consumer technology
  • Partner with executive leadership to align brand strategy with business priorities
  • Drive quarterly brand platform development cycles aligned to key market moments
  • Define WD’s enterprise and consumer brand narratives, ensuring clarity and differentiation
  • Develop messaging architectures that connect corporate positioning to product storytelling
  • Translate complex technical capabilities into clear, compelling messaging
  • Support executive communications and thought leadership narratives
  • Ensure consistent language across product, campaign, and corporate messaging

Requirements

  • 8–12+ years of experience in brand strategy, brand management, or strategic marketing
  • Proven experience developing brand positioning and messaging frameworks at scale
  • Strong background managing creative agencies and integrated marketing programs
  • Experience operating within decentralized or global marketing organizations
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex technology into compelling messaging
  • Experience building scalable brand systems, playbooks, or governance frameworks
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across marketing, communications, and product teams
  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field

Preferred

  • Experience in enterprise technology, infrastructure, storage, or AI-related industries
  • Experience supporting both B2B and consumer portfolios
  • Familiarity with brand architecture development and messaging systems
  • Experience managing integrated internal and external creative teams
  • Experience leading brand transformation or repositioning initiatives
  • Experience working across both enterprise technology and consumer-facing brands preferred
  • MBA 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.

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.

Founded in 2003
San Jose, California, USA
23K employees (792 in marketing)
87% recommend to a friend

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