Executive Assistant to the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Job Description

Western Digital is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Executive Assistant to support the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer (CSMO).

Reporting directly to the CSMO, this individual will serve as a trusted business partner, enabling executive effectiveness while helping drive alignment, execution, and operational excellence across the global Sales and Marketing organization. The Senior Executive Assistant will work closely with the CSMO's Chief of Staff and partner extensively with senior leaders across Sales, Marketing, Revenue Operations, Product Management, Engineering, Finance, Human Resources, and Corporate Functions.

This is a highly visible role requiring exceptional judgment, discretion, executive presence, and the ability to navigate a complex, fast-paced global environment. The successful candidate will proactively anticipate business needs, manage competing priorities, facilitate seamless execution of key initiatives, and serve as an extension of the Office of the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer.

The ideal candidate is a proactive problem-solver with outstanding organizational and communication skills, strong business acumen, and a proven ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of the organization. They thrive in dynamic environments, embrace change, leverage technology and AI-enabled productivity tools, and consistently operate with the highest levels of professionalism, confidentiality, and accountability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Executive Effectiveness and Strategic Priority Management

• Serve as a strategic partner to the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, ensuring optimal alignment of executive time, priorities, and decision-making activities with business objectives.
• Manage and optimize a highly complex global calendar, balancing internal leadership commitments, customer engagements, industry events, board-related activities, and strategic business priorities.
• Anticipate executive needs and proactively resolve scheduling conflicts, competing priorities, and operational challenges.
• Develop a deep understanding of organizational goals, revenue priorities, customer initiatives, and go-to-market strategies to effectively manage executive focus and time allocation.
• Act as a trusted advisor on scheduling, prioritization, and organizational effectiveness.

Sales & Marketing Leadership Operations

• Partner with the Sales & Marketing Leadership Team to coordinate executive operating rhythms, leadership meetings, business reviews, forecasting discussions, pipeline reviews, strategic planning sessions, and key commercial initiatives.
• Ensure leadership meetings are well-structured, appropriately documented, and followed by clear accountability and execution plans.
• Facilitate action-item tracking and follow-through across the leadership team to drive operational rigor and organizational alignment.
• Support executive engagement in major customer interactions, industry conferences, revenue-generating initiatives, and strategic partnerships.

Executive Communications and Stakeholder Management

• Serve as a key liaison for the Office of the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer, representing the executive with professionalism, diplomacy, and sound judgment.
• Facilitate effective communication across executive leadership, customers, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Manage inbound requests, approvals, correspondence, and executive communications, ensuring timely and professional responses.
• Support the preparation and review of executive communications, presentations, messaging, and organizational updates.

Executive Meeting and Event Management

• Lead planning and execution of executive meetings, customer engagements, leadership offsites, sales leadership forums, organizational events, and strategic planning sessions.
• Coordinate agendas, materials, logistics, briefing documents, and post-meeting follow-up activities.
• Support large-scale business events including Sales Kickoffs, customer advisory boards, executive summits, and marketing conferences.

Executive Briefings and Content Preparation

• Coordinate and oversee briefing materials for customer visits, executive business reviews, analyst meetings, industry events, earnings-related activities, board interactions, and global travel.
• Partner closely with the Chief of Staff, Corporate Communications, Investor Relations, Product Marketing, and other stakeholders to ensure executive preparedness.
• Ensure presentations, briefing books, meeting summaries, and supporting documentation are comprehensive, accurate, and delivered in advance of key engagements.

Business Operations and Process Excellence

• Manage expense reporting, purchase orders, vendor engagements, and administrative processes in compliance with company policies.
• Champion the use of Microsoft 365, Copilot, WD Chat, SharePoint, Teams, Salesforce, and other productivity platforms to drive operational efficiency.
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, simplify administrative processes, and improve organizational effectiveness through automation and AI-enabled solutions.
• Support special projects and strategic initiatives on behalf of the CSMO and leadership team.

Cross-Functional Leadership and Partnership

• Build strong partnerships across Sales, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, Legal, HR, and Corporate Functions.
• Establish trusted working relationships with senior executives, key customers, and strategic stakeholders.
• Support the execution of critical business initiatives, organizational priorities, and leadership objectives.
• Navigate a highly matrixed environment while influencing outcomes without direct authority.

Global Travel Management

• Coordinate complex domestic and international travel arrangements, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with business priorities.
• Anticipate travel-related needs and proactively manage logistics, scheduling considerations, and changes across multiple time zones.

Executive Assistant Community Leadership

• Provide functional leadership and mentorship to Executive Assistants across the Sales & Marketing organization.
• Promote best practices, operational consistency, and professional development across the EA community.
• Support employee engagement initiatives, leadership events, team communications, and organizational culture efforts.
• Contribute to a collaborative, customer-focused, and service-oriented environment while strengthening partnerships across the broader administrative community.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years supporting a Chief Sales Officer (CSO), Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Chief Sales & Marketing Officer (CSMO), Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, or equivalent executive within a large public company.
• Experience supporting executives in a complex global organization spanning multiple regions, cultures, and time zones.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and AI-enabled productivity tools.
• Demonstrated ability to manage highly complex executive calendars, global travel, leadership communications, customer engagements, and business operations.
• Strong experience developing executive-level presentations, board and leadership materials, briefing documents, meeting summaries, and business communications.
• Exceptional organizational, planning, project management, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong business judgment, problem-solving capability, and attention to detail.
• Ability to anticipate executive needs and proactively identify solutions that support business objectives and organizational effectiveness.
• Proven ability to serve as a trusted advisor on prioritization, scheduling, stakeholder engagement, and organizational matters.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound discretion, and manage highly confidential and sensitive information.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and collaborate effectively across executive leadership and key cross-functional partners.
• Experience driving accountability for deliverables, follow-up actions, strategic initiatives, and organizational commitments.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring, coaching, or leading administrative professionals.
• Flexibility to support a global executive organization across multiple time zones as business needs require.
• Daily presence at WD's Irvine, CA office is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a Chief Sales Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, or Chief Sales & Marketing Officer within a global technology company.
• Familiarity with sales operating rhythms, marketing planning cycles, revenue forecasting, pipeline management, customer engagement strategies, and go-to-market execution.
• Experience coordinating executive leadership meetings, customer and partner engagements, industry events, analyst briefings, board-related materials, quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and strategic planning activities.
• Experience supporting organizations focused on technology, semiconductors, storage, hardware, software, cloud, AI, or related industries.
• Advanced proficiency leveraging Microsoft Copilot and other AI technologies to enhance executive effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Experience working within highly matrixed, fast-growing, and globally distributed organizations.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing outcomes without direct authority.
• Experience supporting large-scale organizational transformations, commercial strategy programs, sales productivity initiatives, or executive operating models.
• Familiarity with CRM and business intelligence platforms such as Salesforce, Power BI, Tableau, Dynamics 365, or similar tools.
• Experience supporting executives who regularly engage with customers, channel partners, investors, analysts, and industry thought leaders.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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 behavior, 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.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 11/30/2026 (3 months from posting), 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.

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.

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Compensation: 110300 to 147000 (USD) (YEARLY)