HR Experience Partner

Western Digital; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Digital is seeking an HR Experience Partner for the Americas region to enable and continuously improve high-quality, consistent employee and manager experiences. You will work with HR Operations, COE, HRBPs and Legal to deliver enterprise people strategies and locally nuanced programs.

You will shape end-to-end people journeys, strengthen manager effectiveness, and support talent activation through thoughtful, localized delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in HR program delivery, manager coaching, HR advisory work, or organizational effectiveness.
• Experience in technology or manufacturing environments preferred.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills with diverse audiences.
• Ability to partner with managers and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with TD&I to enable and embed core people leader capabilities through locally relevant, experience-led delivery.
• Strengthen manager confidence by facilitating sessions with coaching.
• Bolster manager effectiveness through consistent practices and guidance on key programs.
• Ensure managers understand how to apply people practices.
• Promote and champion HR programs and drive adoption aligned with priorities.
• Provide real-time coaching and guidance to managers for day-to-day people matters.
• Partner with HRBPs, Legal, and COE to implement country-specific and regional initiatives and compliance.
• Ad hoc programs and projects as needed.

Skills

HR program delivery

Manager coaching

HR advisory

Organizational effectiveness

Cross-regional collaboration

Job description

WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy.

As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in.

We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide.

This isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.

We’re looking for peoplewho want to build, solve, and operate at that level.

Join us and let’s shape the future of data.

Step into the role of HR Experience Partner for the Americas region, where you will play a keypartinenabling and continuously improving high quality, consistentemployeeand manager experience. Partnering closely with HR Operations, HR Centers of Excellence, HR Business Partners and Legal, this role serves as the connector that ensures enterprise people strategies, programs, and processes are delivered in a cohesive, intuitive, and experience‑led way.

In this role,you willbe on theteam focused on shapingend-to-endpeoplejourneys, strengthening manager effectiveness through scalable experiences, and supporting the activation of talent strategies through thoughtful, localized delivery.You are part of a system thatis responsible forensuringcore HR programs are implemented with consistency and clarity, reducing friction for managers and employees while respecting regional and regulatory nuances.You willalsoprovidereal‑timecoaching and support to managers, reinforcing foundational management practices and helping leaders navigate critical people matters with confidence.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Partner with Talent Development & Inclusion (TD&I) toenable and embed corepeopleleadercapabilitiesthrough locally relevant,experienceleddelivery.
• Strengthen manager confidencebyfacilitatingsessionswhere managershave the opportunityto practice andreceivecoachingonmanaging others.
• Bolstermanagereffectivenessthroughdevelopment andadoption of consistent practices, providing guidanceon how tobe accountable forkey programs(i.e., performance management).
• Ensuremanagers consistentlyunderstandhowto applypeoplepractices—not justwhatto do.
• Promote and champion key HR programsby helping drive awareness, ensuring consistent adoption, and reinforcealignment with organizational prioritiesformanagers and employees.
• Providereal‑timecoaching and guidance to managers, helping them navigateday‑to‑daypeople matters, organizational changes, and team dynamics to improvedecision‑makingand overall leadership effectiveness.
• Partnerwith HR Business Partners, Legal, and COE teamsto help implementcountry‑specificand regional talent initiativesandcompliance, ensuring local needs and best practices are incorporated into execution.
• Ad hoc programs and projectsas needed.

Required:

• 5+ years of experienceinHR program delivery,manager coaching, HR advisory work, or organizational effectiveness; experience in technology or manufacturing environments preferred.
• Experience working across multiple regions or diverse teams,with an understanding of cultural differences and the ability to support leaders in varied business contexts.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with managers andcross‑functionalstakeholdersto assess capability needs, prioritize areas of focus, and support the deliveryand facilitationofkeyinitiatives.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills,capable of engaging diverse audiences, delivering training, and providing clear, practical guidance to leaders at all levels.
• Sound judgment and a collaborative approach,consistently modeling trust, respect, inclusion, and professionalism in sensitive or complexpeoplesituations.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and managing multiple priorities,with the ability tomanage projects andstay organized, adapt to changing business needs, and deliverhigh‑qualitysupport infast‑pacedenvironments

WD 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 behaviour, 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.

WD 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.

WD 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 be 9/10/26, 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.

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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.
• Thesalaryrange 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 Yorkor 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 undereither WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or theSales 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.

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