Communications Manager – Product & Engineering
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Communications Manager for WD's Product and Engineering teams, designing employee-facing communications strategies. Collaborating with engineers and leaders to ensure alignment with company culture and strategic goals.
Responsibilities:
- Design and deliver employee-facing communications that keep engineers, product teams, and technical leaders aligned to strategy, connected to culture, and ready for change.
- Operationalize and activate communication strategy at the organization level, owning channels, cadences, campaigns, and leader support for the P&E organization.
- Build and execute the P&E internal communications strategy and calendar aligned to WD’s product roadmap, operating model, and growth priorities.
- Translate corporate and product strategy into clear, employee-ready narratives for technical audiences.
- Own communications intake, prioritization, and sequencing for P&E, balancing urgency, impact, and employee capacity to ensure clarity and reduce noise.
- Draft and ghostwrite org-wide emails, updates, narratives, Q&As, and presentations for P&E leaders.
- Write, edit, and publish high-quality employee-facing content across multiple formats.
- Act as editor-in-chief for P&E channels, ensuring message discipline and reduced noise.
- Produce, project manage and run the P&E All Hands/Ask Me Anythings, including content, logistics, delivery and follow up.
- Lead communications for P&E change (reorgs, mechanism rollouts, operating model shifts).
Requirements:
- 8+ years in employee/internal communications (or adjacent roles) with proven success in complex, technical organizations.
- Exceptional writing and editing skills; ability to translate engineering/product topics into clear, human centered messages.
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing change communications across large, distributed teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and consultative skills; confident advising senior leaders and pushing back with data and rationale.
- Channel operations experience (SharePoint, Teams/Slack, newsletters, town halls); strong slides/story design in PowerPoint.
- Program/project management rigor and high attention to detail.
- Fluency in the software/hardware product lifecycle, and data‑center/cloud ecosystems (preferred).
- Familiarity with the role data storage plays in AI (preferred).
Benefits:
- 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
- Employee stock purchase plan
- WD Savings 401(k) Plan
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