Global Policy & Governance Manager

Company Description

At Western Digital, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, Western Digital is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first‑ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, ™.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest‑growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever‑growing data storage needs of the AI era, Western Digital is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Western Digital is strengthening how we govern policies and process documentation across the enterprise. This role will build and own the global governance documentation management program, creating and maintaining a SharePoint‑based central policy repository and partnering across all business functions to identify, author, organize, approve, publish, and maintain authoritative governance content (policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, charters).

• Stand up and continuously improve an enterprise SharePoint Online repository for governance documents, including information architecture, metadata/taxonomy, content types, versioning, permissions, retention, search, and workflow automation.

• Define and socialize the governance documentation framework (scope, definitions, document types, naming conventions, approval paths, lifecycle controls).

• Partner with across Western Digital to identify required policies and process documentation, and to aggregate and organize existing governance artifacts (guidelines, procedures, standards, charters, playbooks).

• Incorporate and reference key enterprise materials (e.g., IMS playbooks and numbered governance documents) to ensure a single source of truth.

• Work with document owners/SMEs to draft or update policies and procedures, ensure clarity and consistency, and apply WD branding and numbering standards.

• Engagement with SOX & Audit team to align documentation with audit findings, as well as support SOX and Audits by providing relevant governance documentation.

• Guide owners through approvals; manage publishing, review cycles, and controlled updates on defined cadence (e.g., annual/biannual), maintaining audit‑ready evidence and traceability.

• Establish controls and documentation that meet internal audit, SOX, ISO/QMS, data governance, and security requirements (including least‑privilege access and external sharing safeguards for SharePoint).

• Create training, quick guides, and communications; host clinics for authors/approvers; champion adoption across sites and functions.

• Define KPIs and dashboards (e.g., % coverage of policy inventory, cycle time for approvals, % docs current vs. expired, repository usage/adoption, audit issues remediated).

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Management, Communications, or related field (or combination of equivalent experience). MBA a plus.

• 3-5 years of experience in governance, compliance, policy management, or document control in a medium‑to‑large enterprise.

• Proficiency in SharePoint Online (sites & hubs, libraries, content types, metadata/taxonomy, permissions, search, Power Automate workflows).

• Strong technical writing and editorial skills with attention to structure, clarity, and consistency.

• Project management capability to move…