Senior Director, Strategy

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Identify and assess high-value strategic opportunities in storage-related areas such as software, platforms, services, and new business models.

• Analyze market prospects in Software-Defined Storage (SDS), storage management platforms, data orchestration, and tiered storage solutions.

• Evaluate emerging business models like Storage-as-a-Service, consumption-based pricing, and platform partnerships.

• Create frameworks for determining the best approach between building, buying, or partnering for software and platform opportunities.

• Discover white space opportunities where Western Digital's capabilities can provide distinct competitive advantages, assessing the strategic alignment and value creation potential in relation to the core hardware business.

• Formulate strategic methods for addressing the needs of hyperscale environments, neoclouds, and sovereign cloud projects.

• Examine customer infrastructure trends and storage needs that extend beyond traditional hardware.

• Assess opportunities in storage management software, data placement, and intelligent tiering solutions.

• Develop and implement strategic partnership frameworks for software vendors, cloud providers, and system integrators.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or business development with an emphasis on technology platforms and ecosystems.

• Background at a top-tier management consulting firm is highly preferred.

• Demonstrated success in developing platform strategies, ecosystem frameworks, and innovative business models for technology firms.

• Extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, neoclouds, data storage, or enterprise infrastructure markets is strongly preferred.

• Exceptional strategic thinking skills, with profound expertise in platform strategy, two-sided markets, and ecosystem dynamics.

• Excellent analytical and financial modeling capabilities, including business case development.

• An MBA from a top-tier business school is mandatory.

• A Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related analytical discipline is essential.

🏝️ 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 benefits

• The Applause Program

• Employee stock purchase plan

• WD Savings 401(k) Plan