What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Learning Experience Development Manager position at Western Digital?

We are looking for a highly collaborative learning and people development manager who is passionate about designing and delivering an integrated worldclass employee experience. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual who is enthusiastic about bringing an organizations people culture and leadership capabilities to life through strategic modern learning experiences using a peoplecentered agile approach. The position reports to the Director of Talent Development & Inclusion and will partner with a variety of stakeholders and subject matter experts across the company to architect tailored meaningful and impactful learning experiences.

This is a perfect opportunity for you if you are looking to be a part of a team that is developing new futureforward learning programs eager to take on new opportunities and challenges with a sense of curiosity and enthusiasm and thrive in a dynamic environment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

Contribute to the design and management of modern digitalforward learning experiences that deliver our strategic talent development priorities in a global environment

Design and implement custom selfdirected and instructorled learning experiences that leverage advancements in instructional design technology and tools to drive innovative solutions that shape our work culture and positively impact business outcomes

Manage projects from inception to execution including operationalizing ongoing program management and learner engagement

Analyze target audience and programmatic needs across global audiences identify learning outcomes and create learner personas and user experience journey maps

Develop and document selfdirected and instructorled learning experiences including flow schedule and custombuilt learning materials

Review assess and select curated content to achieve learning outcomes

Synthesize and contextualize content in partnership with the program management team vendor partners SMEs and senior business leaders

Define and deploy measurement tactics including data analysis and visualization to show effectiveness of learning and program adoption initiatives aligning with Enterprise learning and leadership measurement strategy and partnering with People Analytics when needed

Potentially lead small team of learning experience specialists to design and deliver modern digital learning resources and activities

Contribute to the execution of the People Development & Engagement Center of Excellence strategy

Establish strong crossfunctional relationships to continuously collect the voice of the business and voice of the learners to be incorporated into the Talent Development & Inclusion Strategy

Build relationships with business stakeholders and HR partners to identify regional needs cocreate solutions and integrate learning programs into the broader employee experience

Stay informed on industry trends and identify best practices to continually improve content to make it more engaging and impactful for the learner

Identify unmet needs and contribute to the roadmap for new learning initiatives to solve for those unmet needs

Contribute to the development of assets for change management initiatives to support program adoption

Assess content vendors and select relevant and impactful offtheshelf content libraries

Manage other crossfunctional initiatives that help us achieve our enterprise learning strategy goals (e.g. skills mapping content mapping learning governance standards)

Identify and build learning experiences that support other integrated employee experience touchpoints (e.g. career development performance management talent review)

Role model and advocate for a modern learning mindset (i.e. learning through an environment that provides comprehensive unified experiences exposure and education)

Qualifications : Required :

812 years experience in HR or Learning function
Proven experience in :

Building endtoend selfdirected and instructorled digital learning career and leadership development experiences that drive measurable behavioral change including multimedia content creation and curation in a global environment

Ideating creating delivering and facilitating modern learning experiences as part of a larger digital learning transformation

Using a consultative approach to translate learning needs into engaging usercentered experiences

Applying most advanced principles of instructional design and adult learning to the creation of modern digital learning experiences

Displaying technical prowess including fluency in using modern learning and HR technologies (Learning Management Systems and Learning Experience Platforms) and authoring tools

Managing projects with the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines and measure progress and success against competing priorities

Analyzing and visualizing data to demonstrate learning program effectiveness

Demonstrates key leadership skillsets and mindsets :

Demonstrates strong analytics communications and presentation skills

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to facilitate influence resolve conflict and collaborate on innovative solutions with employees from different cultural and professional backgrounds

Finds opportunity in challenges and approaches with a positive and forwardthinking approach

Goaloriented proactive accountable and passionate about driving businessdriven outcomes

Uses a designthinking and datadriven approach to decisionmaking

Challenges the status quo to move beyond traditional ways of doing things

Embraces continual lifelong learning

Actively seeks out industry research and benchmarking

Ability to manage the uncertainty of change and work in an agile environment Can influence without authority

A peer coach with strong connection to team

Preferred :

Masters degree in Organizational Learning Design Instructional Design Educational Technology Industrial / Organizational Psychology Organizational Development or related field

Digital Learning Transformation Experiences in larger companies with recognized brands

Additional Information :

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race color ancestry religion (including religious dress and grooming standards) sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions breastfeeding or related medical conditions) gender (including a persons gender identity gender expression and genderrelated appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons assigned sex at birth) age national origin sexual orientation medical condition marital status (including domestic partnership status) physical disability mental disability medical condition genetic information protected medical and family care leave Civil Air Patrol status military and veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our nondiscrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Know Your Rights : Workplace Discrimination is Illegal poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees our company our customers and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be May 4 2025 although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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Compensation & Benefits Details

An employees pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills ability knowledge of the job; (3) performance contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.

The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California Colorado New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.

You will be eligible to participate in Western Digitals ShortTerm Incentive (STI) Plan which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance you may be eligible to participate in our annual LongTerm Incentive (LTI) program which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires subject to Western Digitals Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical / dental / vision insurance; life accident and disability insurance; taxadvantaged 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 and the Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan.

Note : No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus commission benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole discretion consistent with the law.

Remote Work : Employment Type :

Fulltime

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Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

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