Director, Consumer Data Platform – Analytics Enablement

Western Digital

Director of Consumer Data Platform & Analytics Enablement at Sandisk driving consumer centricity through data-driven decision-making. Leading strategic initiatives for developing scalable self-serve business data and reporting.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $179,733 - $297,770 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Work with the corporate Enterprise Data & AI and Consumer Data Teams to own the Consumer division’s curated (“silver” and “gold”) data layers, including harmonization of external market data with corporate sources, in alignment with enterprise lakehouse and governance standards
Drive data “AI-readiness” to help future-proof the data ecosystem, inclusive of metadata curation and documentation of business logic
Develop and operate the Consumer BI ecosystem on the corporate lakehouse platform (e.g., PowerBI, Databricks), enabling scalable self-service by analysts and business users
Enable integration of AI into business reporting and underlying analysis, in order to build early warning systems and to identify underlying business trends worthy of future study
Partner with Consumer division leadership to ensure downstream analysis applications and BI stack are delivering reliable, efficient, and valuable service

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years relevant experience (consumer tech, consumer electronics, or CPG industries preferred)
Demonstrated history of business impact through data ecosystem development, data engineering, or Development/Operations (DevOps) organization leadership
Data modeling & harmonization experience, including with vendors with varying product/timing hierarchies
Ability to deliver strong data transformation results inside corporate guardrails (e.g., security and access, governance, intake, and prioritization)
Experience designing AI-ready data platforms, including semantic modeling, metadata management, and governed self-service analytics.
Direct AI implementation experience is a plus but not required for the role.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid vacation time
Paid sick leave
Life, accident and disability insurance
Tax-advantaged flexible spending accounts
Health savings accounts
Employee assistance program
Tuition reimbursement
Employee stock purchase plan
Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

data modelingdata harmonizationdata transformationmetadata managementsemantic modelingAI implementationdata engineeringDevOpsbusiness intelligenceself-service analytics

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solving