Employee Communications Specialist at Western Digital — San Jose, CA

WD is seeking an energetic Communications professional to join our Employee Communications team. This role will be responsible for providing employee communications support at the corporate level and will work closely with various organizations across the company.

In this role, you’ll be a key collaborator responsible for creating and executing communication content and campaigns that engage, inform, inspire, and connect employees to the business, leadership, and each other. You will be responsible for developing organization-wide communication campaigns, plans, and stories, managing communication channels and tools, and collaborating with various teams across the business.

You will report to the Director of Employee Communications and work closely with key stakeholders and other Communications leads across the business.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Developing and managing various communication materials, such as newsletters, FAQs, comms plans, intranet content, emails, and internal social media/ community content.
• Day-to-day management of the company communication platforms and channels, ensuring they are up to date, engaging, and aligned with company goals and our culture.
• Regularly manage and update the team’s editorial calendar.
• Identifying and sourcing key stories across the business that highlight our culture and Values and promote WD as a best place to work.
• Leverage video or other media for creative storytelling, with a strong focus on writing scripts and developing short-form video content.
• Supporting internal events like the All-Hands meetings to promote employee engagement and foster a positive work environment.
• Providing timely and accurate information to employees regarding their questions and concerns via email and Teams.
• Tracking the effectiveness of internal communications programs and campaigns by compiling a regular metrics report and sharing with leadership.

Required

• 5+ years of internal communications experience.
• Excellent content development and writing skills, with a specific focus on campaigns, blog posts, video, and social media.
• Solid understanding of visual storytelling and script writing.
• Self-starter mindset and the ability to take initiative, find stories, build relationships, and drive engagement with little direction.
• Build, manage, and engage with employees via an online or internal social media community.

Skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Skilled in video, podcast, or other forms of content creation to help tell employee stories.
• Familiar with Asana, Smartsheet, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar creative and project management tools.
• Highly collaborative and adaptable, with the ability to build relationships and work effectively with multiple stakeholders and across different levels of the organization.
• Curious and flexible, with the ability to think creatively.
• Effective team player, while also able to work independently.
• Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, is self-motivated, and can thrive under pressure
• Agency experience is a plus.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/23/26, 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

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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.
• 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.