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Senior Director, Strategy
Location
California
Posted
123 days ago
Salary
$224.5K - $299.3K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Director, Strategy
Western Digital
• 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.
Job 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
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