Executive Assistant to the Chief Product Officer
Western Digital · Finance
- Hours
- Full-time
- Where
- San Jose, CA
- Posted
- 2 days ago
We are seeking an experienced Executive Assistant to support the Chief Product Officer of Western Digital.
Reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, you will serve as a strategic partner to the executive and partner closely with the CPO’s Chief of Staff. You will support the Product organization and collaborate closely with senior leaders across Product Management, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Corporate Functions.
In this highly visible role, you will be entrusted with confidential information and play a critical role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the CPO's office. You will anticipate needs, exercise judgement, manage competing priorities, and help drive operational excellence across a fast-paced, global organization.
What you'd do
- Manage and optimize the CPO's calendar, ensuring alignment with product, business, and company priorities.
- Proactively identify scheduling conflicts, prioritize meetings, and maximize executive productivity across multiple time zones.
- Develop a strong understanding of business priorities to effectively guide scheduling decisions and meeting prioritization.
- Anticipate executive needs and recommend solutions to ensure seamless execution of priorities.Product Leadership Coordination
- Partner with the Product Leadership Team to coordinate and execute operating rhythms, leadership meetings, product reviews, roadmap planning sessions, quarterly business reviews, and strategic planning activities.
- Ensure appropriate preparation, documentation, and follow-up actions for key product and executive forums.
- Drive accountability for action items, milestones, and deliverables resulting from leadership meetings and strategic initiatives.Meeting Planning and Organization
- Plan and execute internal and external meetings, leadership offsites, customer engagements, analyst briefings, board-related product reviews, and team events.
- Coordinate agendas, logistics, meeting materials, and action-item tracking.
- Support planning and execution of organizational events and leadership forums.Executive Communications
What they want
- Minimum of 8 years supporting a Chief Product Officer, 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 calendars, travel, executive communications, and business operations.
- Strong experience developing executive-level presentations, briefing materials, meeting summaries, and business communications.
- Exceptional organizational, planning, project management, and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple competing priorities.
- Strong business judgment, problem-solving capability, and attention to detail.
- Ability to anticipate executive needs and proactively identify solutions.
- Proven ability to serve as a trusted advisor on prioritization, scheduling, and organizational matters.
- Ability to work independently, exercise discretion, and manage highly confidential and sensitive information.
About Western Digital · Finance
WD is building the infrastructure behind the AI-driven data economy. As AI scales, so does data. Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in. We combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide. This isn’t theoretical work.