Senior Director, Cloud Development and Sales Engineering

Western Digital

High-impact leadership role in Cloud Development and Sales Engineering at Western Digital. Developing strategic technical engagements across North America customer accounts with a focus on storage technologies.

Posted 4/24/2026full-timeRemote • North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $187,800 - $250,400 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Position is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role responsible for developing and driving strategic technical engagements across North America customer accounts.
Introduce Western Digital’s product portfolio at these companies and influence customer sentiment to utilize and partner with Western Digital.
Delivery technical presentations on our products and technology to key technical stakeholders including CTOs and Product managers.
Foster collaboration between our Engineering and Sales Organization leaders to align on our technology roadmaps and the messaging to our customers on our strategy and future direction.
Work closely with our Sales and Marketing organization to develop their technical skills and partner on the engagement of new customers.
Utilize their Storage solution architecture expertise to educate and influence both internal and external stakeholders on the future direction of storage technologies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Enterprise storage expertise with a strong foundation in either HDD or SSD technologies.
Cloud experience: Deep understanding of how storage integrates with cloud environments and its role in enterprise systems
Proven track record in pre-sales, solution design, and customer engagement.
Proven ability to articulate and quantify the value of software solutions, including ROI and organization benefits.
Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with customers and internal teams to deliver shared goals.
Leadership experience, with a proven track record of leading customer-facing teams to deliver exceptional results.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
the WD Savings 401(k) Plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

enterprise storageHDD technologiesSSD technologiescloud integrationsolution designcustomer engagementtechnical presentationsstorage solution architecturesoftware solutionsROI analysis

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipcommunicationinfluencecustomer sentimentteamworkstrategic thinkingproblem-solvingstakeholder engagementcross-functional leadership