Director, Organizational Development and Strategic Workforce Planning

Director, Organizational Development and Strategic Workforce Planning

The Director, Organizational Development and Strategic Workforce Planning will architect Western Digital's enterprise‑wide approach for Workforce Planning, Organization Design and Team Effectiveness. This role combines strategic thinking with hands‑on execution, requiring expertise in organizational design principles and workforce planning.

• Design and implement a scalable, enterprise‑wide organizational design, team effectiveness and workforce planning frameworks aligned to business objectives and growth trajectory.
• Act as trusted advisor to senior leadership, translating business strategy into organizational structure, capability requirements, and workforce implications.
• Develop predictive workforce models that identify talent gaps and risks, and future capability needs across critical roles and functions.

• Create enterprise standards, tools, and methodologies for organizational design and strategic workforce planning that can be deployed consistently across WD.
• Build organizational design and workforce planning capabilities in HR business partners and people leaders through training, coaching, and hands‑on facilitation.
• Establish governance processes and decision frameworks that ensure organizational changes are data‑driven and strategically sound.

• Partner directly with senior HR business partners to diagnose organizational effectiveness challenges and design fit‑for‑purpose solutions.
• Lead high‑visibility organizational design projects that restructure teams, clarify accountabilities, and optimize spans of control.
• Serve as primary designer and project lead on enterprise‑wide organizational development and effectiveness initiatives with significant business impact.

• Partner with Workforce Analytics to translate workforce data into actionable insights on organizational health, talent distribution, and structural efficiency.
• Develop dashboards and reporting mechanisms that give leaders visibility into workforce composition, turnover risk, and readiness for future needs.
• Apply evidence‑based approaches to test and validate organizational design decisions before implementation.

• 5+ years of progressive experience in organizational design and strategic workforce planning, ideally in complex, matrixed environments.
• 7+ years leading enterprise‑wide organizational development and effectiveness initiatives with measurable business impact.
• Demonstrated expertise across multiple OD disciplines: organizational design, workforce planning, team effectiveness and change management.

• Exceptional business acumen with ability to connect organizational design decisions to financial outcomes and operational performance.
• Advanced project management skills with track record of delivering complex, multi‑stakeholder initiatives on time.
• Strong analytical and systems thinking abilities; comfortable working with workforce data and translating it into strategic recommendations.

• Proven ability to facilitate difficult conversations and build consensus among senior stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Executive presence and credibility to advise senior leaders on sensitive organizational topics.
• Thrives in ambiguity—able to move forward when parameters are unclear, information is incomplete, or priorities are shifting, while bringing structure and clarity to complex situations.
• Skilled at working across functions (HRBP, Talent, Total Rewards, Analytics, Finance, Legal) to deliver integrated solutions.
• Collaborator who can navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in complex organizational environments.

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…