Western Digital: Senior Talent Acquisition Manager – Strategic Initiatives & Talent Insights — San Jose, CA, United States

About Western Digital

Western Digital develops and manufactures data-storage technology for data centres, cloud platforms and enterprise infrastructure. Its employer introduction connects this work with the need to retain, manage and access information generated by digital systems and AI applications. The business brings engineering and manufacturing together around the physical systems behind data storage. Its described purpose is to make growing volumes of information available over time, supporting the infrastructure on which other digital services depend.

The position and its setting

Western Digital lists Senior Talent Acquisition Manager – Strategic Initiatives & Talent Insights in San Jose, CA, United States, under reference REF34821H. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Employment type: Full-time
• Employer listing date: 20 October 2026
• Business Function: Talent Acquisition
• Brands: Western Digital
• Work Location: San Jose Great Oaks Headquarters

Responsibilities and work described

• The role
• We hire roughly 3000-5000 people a year across four continents — manufacturing technicians, early-career engineers, corporate professionals, and executives
• Behind every one of those hires is a decision: where to invest, which pipelines to build, which programs to scale
• We're looking for the leader who turns our hiring data into those decisions and turns those decisions into programs that ship
• This is not a recruiting role
• You won't carry requisitions
• You'll own the strategy, insight, and program engine that makes our recruiters, hiring leaders, and executives better at what they do
• About the team
• Global Talent Acquisition and Mobility Insights & Programs serves as the strategic arm of our global Talent Acquisition organization
• Rather than recruiting directly, we design and implement programs, processes, and hiring practices that help recruiting teams and hiring leaders attract, engage, and hire talent
• The function has two teams
• Strategic Offerings — the team you'll lead — owns insight, workforce intelligence, strategic programs and talent brands
• Talent Success partners with our recruiting teams and hiring managers, customer-success style, to make sure what we build is adopted and delivers
• Our FY27 agenda is organized around five capabilities: Workforce & Talent Intelligence
• Critical & Future Skills Pipeline
• Scalable Delivery & RPO

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR, Analytics, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Economics or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of progressive experience across TA, HR, people analytics, workforce planning, strategy or operations, including 4+ years leading people
• Ownership of workforce or headcount planning in a global, matrixed organization of 10,000+ employees
• Hands-on analytics fluency: metric frameworks, forecasting models and executive dashboards (Power BI, Tableau or Workday reporting)
• Track record leading multi-region, cross-functional programs from charter to adoption
• Executive presence: able to brief VP and C-level leaders with a clear recommendation, not just data
• Experience developing new offerings, practices, or process design in manufacturing, semiconductor or high-tech environments with large direct labor populations
• Experience: talent insights site selection, labor market mapping or location strategy
• Knowledge: Workday (HCM, Recruiting or Adaptive Planning) and modern ATS platforms
• Employer brand or EVP experience, or close partnership with marketing
• Design thinking, Agile, PMP, PgMP, Prosci or similar certification
• Experience: RPO models, vendor economics or shared services design
• Experience: AI and automation

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Preferred

Location, schedule and contract conditions

For this overseas or regional listing, confirm work authorisation and any location restrictions with the employer. The location does not establish visa sponsorship or permission to work remotely from India.

• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Advertised location: San Jose, CA, United States

Benefits mentioned by the employer

• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting
• 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 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
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable
• Notice To Candidates: Please be aware that WD and its subsidiaries will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment
• Should you encounter any such requests, please report it immediately to WD Ethics Helpline or email [email protected]

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Senior Talent Acquisition Manager – Strategic Initiatives & Talent Insights vacancy is not an offer for reference REF34821H; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

A closing date is not confirmed in this article. Check the current employer page before submitting: an undated posting can change or be withdrawn.

How to apply to Western Digital

Applications follow the official employer page linked below. The source includes these application-specific points:

Open the official Western Digital posting below and match the title and reference REF34821H.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the San Jose, CA, United States position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

Prepare an accurate CV and the supporting items requested in that employer’s application. Provide only information and documents you are authorised to share.

Use the employer’s application option, complete the required fields and review the submission. Retain the acknowledgement when one is provided. Job Alerts World does not receive the application.

• Accommodation requests: [email protected]

Practical preparation: AI

An AI-related example should make the task and evaluation explicit. Explain the inputs, the system’s intended output and how you checked errors, usefulness or reliability, rather than relying on the model name alone.

Relevant skills

• REST APIs
• AI/ML
• AI
• manufacturing
• recruitment
• Power BI
• Tableau
• marketing
• partnership development