Western Digital Technologies

Organization Architect Lead

Western Digital Technologies • $135K — $160K *
San Jose, CA 95123In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or related field
  • 5+ years of experience in organizational design, workforce planning, or development
  • Hands-on experience leading org design projects including spans of control analysis
  • Ability to create and implement operational tools and frameworks
  • Strong analytical skills in interpreting workforce data

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain workforce planning models to identify talent gaps
  • Align headcount plans with business strategy and growth projections
  • Create reporting mechanisms for workforce visibility and risk
  • Support design and execution of org design engagements with HR partners
  • Develop standardized tools and decision frameworks for org design
  • Analyze organizational health indicators and provide actionable insights
  • Operationalize practices for AI adoption in organizational design

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid vacation and sick leave
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life, accident, and disability insurance
  • Tuition reimbursement and transit assistance
  • Employee stock purchase plan and 401(k) plan
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Organization Development team at WD owns the enterprise-wide frameworks that shape how the company is structured, how work gets done, and how the workforce evolves alongside the business. As an Organization Architect Lead, you will be the hands-on practitioner who takes those frameworks and makes them operational - translating org design principles and workforce planning methodology into tools, processes, and standards that HR business partners and people leaders can actually use. This is a high-visibility individual contributor role sitting directly below the Director of Organizational Development, and youll carry real ownership over the work that helps WD navigate AI-driven workforce transformation at scale.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Workforce Planning
  • Develop and maintain enterprise workforce planning models that identify current and future talent gaps, capability needs, and structural risks across critical functions
  • Partner with HR business partners and finance to align headcount plans with business strategy, growth projections, and organizational priorities
  • Build reporting and tracking mechanisms that give senior leaders and HRBPs clear visibility into workforce composition, readiness, and risk

Organization Design
  • Support the design and execution of org design engagements - restructuring teams, clarifying accountabilities, and optimizing spans of control in partnership with senior HRBPs and business leaders
  • Develop and maintain standardized org design tools, templates, and decision frameworks that enable consistent, data-driven structural decisions across WD
  • Analyze organizational health indicators - including span of control, role clarity, and team structure - and translate findings into actionable recommendations

AI Transformation
  • Operationalize standard practices for AI adoption within the OD function - including assessment frameworks, playbooks, and implementation guides that teams can apply consistently
  • Partner with HR leadership to assess workforce implications of AI-driven changes, including role evolution, capability gaps, and structural adjustments needed to support adoption
  • Document and codify AI-related org design learnings so that best practices scale across the enterprise rather than living in individual engagements

Capability Building & Advisory
  • Facilitate training and coaching sessions that build org design and workforce planning capability in HR business partners and people leaders
  • Advise on high-priority organizational effectiveness challenges, bringing structured diagnosis and practical recommendations rather than abstract frameworks
  • Coordinate with Workforce Analytics to ensure workforce data informs design decisions and planning models


Qualifications

Required Qualifications
  • Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field
  • 5+ years of progressive experience in organizational design, workforce planning, or organizational development in a complex, matrixed environment
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience leading or executing org design projects - including spans of control analysis, role clarification, and team restructuring
  • Proven ability to build and operationalize frameworks, tools, and playbooks that others can apply consistently - not just advise on them
  • Strong analytical skills applied to workforce data: ability to interpret headcount, attrition, and capability data and translate it into structured recommendations

Preferred Qualifications
  • MBA or PhD in Organizational Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Business, or a related field
  • Experience operationalizing AI tools or AI-driven change within an HR or OD function
  • Experience in strategic management consulting role
  • Familiarity with Organization Design methodologies/frameworks such as Galbraith Star Model, Data driven design tools (e.g. OrgVue), McKinsey 7SFramework or other consulting frameworks
  • Familiarity with workforce planning methodologies such as supply/demand modeling, scenario planning, or skills-based workforce design
  • Familiarity with change management methodologies/frameworks such as Prosci, ADKAR, Kotter, or agile change management
  • Experience working in the technology or semiconductor industry


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.
  • If your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.
  • You will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WDs Short Term Incentive Plan (STI Plan) or the Sales Incentive Plan (SIP) 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 Long-Term 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 WDs 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; 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; and the WD 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.

About Western Digital Technologies

Western Technology Investment is a venture capital firm that specializes in offering acquisition financing to revenue-generating firms. The firm provides debt and lease financing to venture capital backed technology companies.

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We pride ourselves on a culture that fosters diversity, innovation, and leadership. Western Digital Technologies is dedicated to providing employees with a supportive work environment where everyone is encouraged to be their best. Our benefits package is comprehensive, including health, dental, and vision insurance, employee wellness programs, and significant career development opportunities.

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Size
65,600 employees
Market Cap
$9.9 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$167 million
Founded
1970
5 Year Trend
-0.3%
Revenue
$16.3 billion
NASDAQ
WDC
* Ladders Estimates

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