Senior Director, Strategy

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

📋 Description

• Identify and assess strategic opportunities with high value in storage adjacent areas such as software, platforms, services, and innovative business models.

• Evaluate market potential within Software-Defined Storage (SDS), storage management systems, data orchestration, and tiered storage solutions.

• Analyze new business models including Storage-as-a-Service, consumption-based pricing, and platform partnerships.

• Create frameworks for making informed decisions regarding build vs. buy vs. partner for software and platform opportunities.

• Pinpoint white space opportunities where Western Digital's capabilities offer distinctive competitive advantages, examining strategic alignment and potential for value creation in relation to the core hardware business.

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

• Examine infrastructure trends among customers and storage needs that go beyond traditional hardware solutions.

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

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

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Experience at a prestigious management consulting firm is highly desirable.

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

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

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

• Excellent analytical and financial modeling abilities, including the development of business cases.

• An MBA from a leading business school is mandatory.

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

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid vacation time

• Paid sick leave

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Life, accident, and disability insurance

• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts

• Employee assistance program

• Additional voluntary benefit programs including supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity

• Tuition reimbursement

• Transit assistance

• The Applause Program

• Employee stock purchase plan

• WD Savings 401(k) Plan