Executive Assistant - VP Legal

Western Digital; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 64,440 - 78,760; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid vacation and sick leave

Job summary

Western Digital, located in California, is seeking an Executive Assistant to support Legal Executives and senior legal team members. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication skills, innovative problem-solving, and a high level of organization to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

This position requires extensive experience working at the senior management level, strong knowledge of Microsoft 365, and a proactive approach to managing complex tasks. Join a company committed to diversity and inclusivity.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience supporting at the senior management level in a public company, preferably for a legal or finance executive in high tech.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams.
• Great attention to detail and the maturity to handle confidential information is a must.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Highly organized, resourceful, and detail oriented.

Responsibilities

• Manage calendars of VPs and coordinate across executives and team members.
• Assist in planning and organizing internal and external meetings.
• Act as a proxy for communications and approvals as authorized.
• Manage complex international and domestic travel arrangements.
• Become a tool champion of WD’s internal tools, managing expense reports and purchase orders.

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking an Executive Assistant to provide high quality support to Legal Executives and other senior legal team members. This position will report to our VP of Litigation and Risk. The successful candidate will be a highly trusted, organized individual who exercises a great deal of discretion, and has exceptional interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.

The ideal candidate describes themselves as a strategic business partner and is driven, focused, organized, and innovative. We’re seeking someone who is flexible and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong critical thinking and attention to detail are equally meaningful in this role. A positive attitude and a team player are a must!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Calendar Management: Manage calendars of VPs; coordinate across executives, business partners and team members by prioritizing schedules and qualifying requests. Proactively solicit agendas and manage attendee lists.
• Meeting Planning and Event Coordination: Assist in the planning and organizing of internal and external meetings, team offsites, and organizational wide meetings. Obtain briefing documents for key internal/external meetings and create briefing packets for business trips.
• Correspondence/Approvals: Act as a proxy for communications and approvals as authorized. Act as a source for general inquiries and refer routine matters to appropriate parties.
• Travel: Manage complex international and domestic travel. Carefully consider and decide the optimum travel arrangements and itineraries. Process passports and visas.
• Tool Management: Manage expense reports and purchase orders and become a tool champion of WD’s internal tools. Support expense, requisition, and payment workflows for the Risk Management team.
• Coordinate with IT support teams in advance of meetings and events to understand the best technology needed to ensure a successful outcome.
• In general, daily tasks are carried out at a higher level of complexity. Your job will be to problem solve, intuitively understand priorities, and plan-ahead for reoccurring events and tasks.

Qualifications

• 4+ years’ experience supporting at the senior management level in a public company, preferably for a legal or finance executive in high tech.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams.
• Great attention to detail and the maturity to handle confidential information is a must.
• Intuitive problem-solver with thoughtful anticipation of deliverables.
• Ability to prioritize and manage complex issues.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Highly organized, resourceful, and detail oriented.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Collaborative style, team player.
• Propensity to learn and incorporate AI into workstreams.
• Demonstrates leadership.
• Passionate, kind, inclusive, and ethically minded.
• Daily presence (Monday, Wednesday and Thursday) in office; periodically on Tuesday or Friday.
• California notary public is preferred.

Additional Information

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [e-mail] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will 07/18/2025 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.

• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.

• If your position is non‑exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.

• You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long‑Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to WD’S Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

• 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 WD Savings 401(k) Plan.

• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Notice To Candidates

Please be aware that WD and its subsidiaries will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment. Should you encounter any such requests, please report it immediately to WD Ethics Helpline or email [e-mail].

Compensation

$71,600-$71,600 per year