Communications Manager – Product & Engineering

Western Digital

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.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $87,600 - $116,800 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

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
Employee stock purchase plan
WD Savings 401(k) Plan

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Hard Skills & Tools

writingeditingproject managementchange communicationsstakeholder managementdata analysisstory designcontent productionnarrative developmentcommunication strategy

Soft Skills

consultative skillsattention to detailadvising senior leadersability to translate complex topicsmessage disciplineorganizational skillscollaborationstrategic thinkingadaptabilityleadership