Western Digital Senior People Analytics Partner 

United States, California, San Jose 

921105128

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ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Business Partnership & Consulting
  • Serve as the primary analytics partner to HR and business leaders, understanding their challenges and translating them into analytical solutions.
  • Provide insights and recommendations that inform decisions on talent strategy, workforce planning, retention, and employee experience.
  • Build strong relationships with HRBPs, COEs, and leadership teams to ensure alignment on priorities.
  • Experience advising, presenting to, and serving as a thought partner to senior executives.
• Analytics & Insights
  • Develop dashboards, reports, and analyses on workforce metrics (e.g., attrition, DEI, engagement, recruiting, performance).
  • Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights with strong storytelling and visualization.
  • Deliver executive-ready materials that connect people data to business outcomes.
  • Partner cross-functionally with analytics and technical teams to ensure data accuracy, resolve quality issues, and maintain consistent, reliable insights.
• Advanced People Analytics
  • Use statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and trend forecasting to identify workforce risks and opportunities.
  • Partner with HR Technology and Data teams to enhance data quality, governance, and reporting capabilities.
  • Lead initiatives to evolve people analytics from descriptive to predictive and prescriptive insights.
• Strategy & Enablement
  • Guide stakeholders in building a data-driven culture within HR and across the business.
  • Drive adoption of self-service analytics platforms and democratize access to people insights.

• Education & Experience
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s in HR, Business, Data Analytics, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Statistics, or a related field.
  • 6+ years of experience in People Analytics, HR Analytics, Workforce Planning, or related fields.

• Technical Skills
  • Strong expertise in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Workday People Analytics, Visier).
  • Advanced Excel, SQL, or Python/R for data analysis preferred.
  • Understanding of HR systems (Workday, SuccessFactors, etc.) and data structures.
• Business & Consulting Skills
  • Exceptional ability to translate data into business insights and recommendations.
  • Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and storytelling skills.
  • Experience in partnering with senior leaders to drive data-informed decisions

Compensation & Benefits Details

• An employee’s 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 Western Digital’s 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 Western Digital’s 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 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 Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.