Global Policy & Governance Manager

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

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About The Position

Western Digital is strengthening how we govern policies and process documentation across the enterprise. This role will build and own the global governance documentation management program, creating and maintaining a SharePoint‑based central policy repository and partnering across all business functions to identify, author, organize, approve, publish, and maintain authoritative governance content (policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, charters).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Management, Communications, or related field (or combination of equivalent experience).
• 3+ years of experience in governance, compliance, policy management, or document control in a medium‑to‑large enterprise.
• Proficiency in SharePoint Online (sites & hubs, libraries, content types, metadata/taxonomy, permissions, search, Power Automate workflows).
• Strong technical writing and editorial skills with attention to structure, clarity, and consistency.
• Project management capability to move multiple documents through intake, drafting, review, approval, and publication on time.
• Stakeholder management skills; able to influence and guide SMEs and leaders across functions.

Nice To Haves

• MBA a plus.
• Microsoft Copilot proficiency for drafting, summarizing, and accelerating content workflows.
• Familiarity with IMS / quality management systems and enterprise numbering conventions (e.g., policy/playbook identifiers) to maintain standardization.
• Experience designing governance repositories with appropriate controls for sharing, permissions, and lifecycle certification.

Responsibilities

• Program build‑out & ownership
• Stand up and continuously improve an enterprise SharePoint Online repository for governance documents, including information architecture, metadata/taxonomy, content types, versioning, permissions, retention, search, and workflow automation.
• Define and socialize the governance documentation framework (scope, definitions, document types, naming conventions, approval paths, lifecycle controls).
• Cross‑functional intake & discovery
• Partner with across Western Digital to identify required policies and process documentation, and to aggregate and organize existing governance artifacts (guidelines, procedures, standards, charters, playbooks).
• Incorporate and reference key enterprise materials (e.g., IMS playbooks and numbered governance documents) to ensure a single source of truth.
• Authoring & editorial support
• Work with document owners/SMEs to draft or update policies and procedures, ensure clarity and consistency, and apply WD branding and numbering standards.
• Engagement with SOX & Audit team to align documentation with audit findings, as well as support SOX and Audits by providing relevant governance documentation.
• Approval, publishing & lifecycle management
• Guide owners through approvals; manage publishing, review cycles, and controlled updates on defined cadence (e.g., annual/biannual), maintaining audit‑ready evidence and traceability.
• Compliance, audit‑readiness & risk control
• Establish controls and documentation that meet internal audit, SOX, ISO/QMS, data governance, and security requirements (including least‑privilege access and external sharing safeguards for SharePoint).
• Change management & enablement
• Create training, quick guides, and communications; host clinics for authors/approvers; champion adoption across sites and functions.
• Metrics & reporting
• Define KPIs and dashboards (e.g., % coverage of policy inventory, cycle time for approvals, % docs current vs. expired, repository usage/adoption, audit issues remediated).

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: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees