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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

New Product Introduction (NPI) Project Manager

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeFujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan¥8M - ¥13M /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree or higher.
  • At least five years of engineering experience at a manufacturer and experience managing teams that include other departments.
  • Experience leading or managing a team in a product development program, or experience as a project manager.
  • Experience as a project manager or project leader.
  • English proficiency equivalent to TOEIC 650 or above; reading and writing English emails and documents after joining are required, and frequent meetings and communication with overseas engineers are expected.
  • Business-level Japanese proficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee NPI activities throughout the new-product development phase as an NPI Program Manager on the product core team, and timely share and report status to related departments.
  • Discuss product specifications, development policies, and qualification plans with the core team, and communicate decisions to departments.
  • Set and communicate component configuration plans in accordance with the qualification plan for QSR.
  • Lead HDD new-product development programs consistently from the early development phase through factory introduction and mass-production launch.
  • Provide technical and program leadership to cross-functional teams to ensure successful new-product introduction, achieve business objectives, and drive continuous improvement of development and manufacturing processes.
  • Update, share, and manage NPI build status and progress in a timely manner, and track manufacturing-process-related issues through resolution.
  • Analyze existing NPI operations to improve efficiency and drive process improvements through digital transformation.
  • Develop prototype plans based on requirements from product development, coordinate and provide direction to domestic and overseas departments, and manage progress, inventory, and costs.
  • Lead projects and new system implementations that accelerate new-product market introduction and advance digital transformation of business processes.

Desired Qualifications

  • Basic programming skills, such as Python, and ability to use AI tools.
  • Logical thinking.
  • Data analysis skills.
  • Communication skills.
  • Management skills.
  • Digital transformation skills and experience.
  • Business-level English proficiency.
  • Native-level Japanese proficiency.

About the Company

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Western Digital

Makes hard drives for cloud and AI data centers

Western Digital, which goes by WD, designs and makes hard disk drives, mostly the high-capacity models that cloud and AI data centers use to store huge amounts of data cheaply. In 2013, its HGST unit shipped the first helium-filled hard drives, which fit more disks into each drive and use less power. Its drives store data on stacks of spinning magnetic disks, and the lineup runs from Ultrastar data center drives to WD Red and WD Purple drives for home servers and security cameras. WD makes its money selling these drives to cloud companies, PC makers, and retail shoppers. Western Digital was founded in 1970 and is based in San Jose, California, and in 2025 it spun off its flash memory business as Sandisk.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Jose, CA
Founded
1970

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