Director, Organizational Development and Strategic Workforce Planning

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

The Director, Organizational Development and Strategic Workforce Planning will architect Western Digital's enterprise-wide approach for Workforce Planning, Organization Design and Team Effectiveness. This role combines strategic thinking with hands-on execution, requiring expertise in organizational design principles and workforce planning. As a key partner to senior leadership and the HR community, you'll define how we approach organizational design and workforce planning across WD—then roll up your sleeves to make it happen. You'll build capability in our HRBPs while personally leading high-impact initiatives that shape how we work.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive experience in organizational design and strategic workforce planning, ideally in complex, matrixed environments
• 7+ years leading enterprise-wide organizational development and effectiveness initiatives with measurable business impact
• Demonstrated expertise across multiple OD disciplines: organizational design, workforce planning, team effectiveness and change management.
• Exceptional business acumen with ability to connect organizational design decisions to financial outcomes and operational performance
• Advanced project management skills with track record of delivering complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives on time
• Strong analytical and systems thinking abilities; comfortable working with workforce data and translating it into strategic recommendations
• Proven ability to facilitate difficult conversations and build consensus among senior stakeholders with competing priorities
• Executive presence and credibility to advise senior leaders on sensitive organizational topics
• Thrives in ambiguity—able to move forward when parameters are unclear, information is incomplete, or priorities are shifting, while bringing structure and clarity to complex situations
• Skilled at working across functions (HRBP, Talent, Total Rewards, Analytics, Finance, Legal) to deliver integrated solutions
• Collaborator who can navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in complex organizational environments

Responsibilities

• Strategic Architecture Design and implement a scalable, enterprise-wide organizational design, team effectiveness and workforce planning frameworks aligned to business objectives and growth trajectory
• Act as trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating business strategy into organizational structure, capability requirements, and workforce implications
• Develop predictive workforce models that identify talent gaps and risks, and future capability needs across critical roles and functions
• Framework Development & Enablement Create enterprise standards, tools, and methodologies for organizational design and strategic workforce planning that can be deployed consistently across WD
• Build organizational design and workforce planning capabilities in HR business partners and people leaders through training, coaching, and hands-on facilitation
• Establish governance processes and decision frameworks that ensure organizational changes are data-driven and strategically sound
• Execution & Advisory Partner directly with senior HR business partners to diagnose organizational effectiveness challenges and design fit-for-purpose solutions
• Lead high-visibility organizational design projects that restructure teams, clarify accountabilities, and optimize spans of control
• Serve as primary designer and project lead on enterprise-wide organizational development and effectiveness initiatives with significant business impact
• Data-Driven Insights Partner with Workforce Analytics to translate workforce data into actionable insights on organizational health, talent distribution, and structural efficiency
• Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms that give leaders visibility into workforce composition, turnover risk, and readiness for future needs
• Apply evidence-based approaches to test and validate organizational design decisions before implementation

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 Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees