Senior Director, Strategy

🕒 February 18

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $224.5k - $299.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Western Digital

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1970

👥 B2C

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $900M Post-IPO Equity on 2023-01

B2C • B2B • Hardware

Western Digital is a leading manufacturer of data storage solutions, including solid state drives (SSDs), hard drives (HDDs), USB flash drives, and memory cards. The company provides a broad range of products for various uses, such as gaming, video surveillance, and data backup. They also offer solutions for data centers, network-attached storage (NAS), and digital photography. Western Digital is renowned for their innovation in developing storage technologies that meet the needs of both consumers and businesses.

📋 Description

• Identify and evaluate high-value strategic opportunities in storage adjacencies (software, platforms, services, new business models). • Assess market opportunities in Software-Defined Storage (SDS), storage management platforms, data orchestration, and tiered storage solutions. • Evaluate emerging business models (Storage-as-a-Service, consumption-based pricing, platform partnerships). • Develop frameworks for assessing build vs. buy vs. partner decisions for software and platform opportunities. • Identify white space opportunities where Western Digital's capabilities create unique competitive advantages, analyzing the strategic fit and value creation potential relative to the core hardware business. • Develop strategic approaches for serving hyperscale, neoclouds, and sovereign cloud initiatives. • Analyze customer infrastructure trends and storage requirements that extend beyond hardware. • Analyze platform partnership opportunities with cloud providers, System Integrators (SIs), and infrastructure software vendors. • Analyze the competitive landscape in storage software to identify differentiation opportunities. • Develop and execute strategic partnership frameworks for software vendors, cloud providers, and system integrators.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or business development with a focus on technology platforms and ecosystems. • Experience at a top-tier management consulting firm strongly preferred. • Proven track record developing platform strategies, ecosystem frameworks, and business model innovations for technology companies. • Deep experience with cloud infrastructure, neo clouds, data storage, or enterprise infrastructure markets is strongly preferred. • Exceptional strategic thinking, deep expertise in platform strategy, two-sided markets, and ecosystem dynamics. • Outstanding analytical/financial modeling skills, including business case development. • MBA from a top-tier business school is required. • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related analytical field is required.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan