LAUNCH Product Marketing & Product Management Program

We create environments for you to thrive. The growing diversity of data creates an exponential amount of new possibilities – for the world, our company and you. You’ll be part of a team driving the innovations necessary to outpace new demands and challenges everywhere data lives, from sensors to mobile devices to the cloud. We’ve only started to scratch the surface of what data can do. You can help unlock its full potential.

We are seeking highly motivated students to be a part of our LAUNCH Product Marketing Program or Product Management Program. These full-time paid roles are designed to jump start your career, offering on-the-job and supplemental training in addition to robust mentorship. You will work alongside the brightest minds in the industry to drive the innovation necessary to outpace new demands and challenges created by data.

What is the LAUNCH Program? The LAUNCH Program is supplemental to your full-time role. You are automatically enrolled in the LAUNCH Program during the first twelve months. In this program, you will take a deeper dive into professional life at Western Digital by getting exposure to different parts of the organization, in addition to the experience you gain from your day-to-day responsibilities. Supplemental LAUNCH Program elements include:

• On the job training and mentorship with industry professionals
• Supplemental professional development trainings
• Executive exposure
• Networking events with other Western Digital employees
• Competitive compensation and benefits package

Milpitas, California, United States

• Provide support in the planning, designing, due diligence, and implementing of strategic business objectives, define vision, strategies, tactics and select, develop, and manage internal and external resources required to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
• Drive and own short-to-medium term initiatives for evolving our connected storage products and services based on customer personas and use-cases and identifying new areas of growth
• Process, review and interpret qualitative and quantitative data on competition, customers, usage / metrics to uncover new product insights and drive engagement
• Collaborate cross functionally, with various internal functions including product marketing, engineering, legal, and IT to ensure integration success; be a primary point of contact for any potential or current project status.

• Product Marketing: Current student, pursuing a Business Marketing, Business Management, or related undergraduate degree, graduating between December 2020 and June 2021
• Product Management: Current student, pursuing a Computer Science or Information Technology degree, combined with Economics, Business, or MBA, graduating between December 2020 and June 2021
• Minimum of 3.0 GPA
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized
• Strategic thinker with excellent planning and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced and limited resource environment
• Related industry/market experience not required but may include; digital photography, mobile electronics, gaming, computing, or peripherals.
• Passionate about gadgets (consumer electronics)
• Strong technical skills in area of study
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Right to work in the US without requiring Western Digital to commence or sponsor an immigration case in order to employ you (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration case)

The future. It’s on you. You & Western Digital.

We’ve been storing the world’s data for more than 50 years. Once, storage was the most important thing we could do for data. Now, we’re helping the world capture, preserve, access and transform data in a way only we can.

The most game-changing companies, consumers, professionals, and government organizations come to us for the technologies and solutions needed to bring meaning and value to their ever-increasing diversity of data.

But we can’t do it alone. Today’s exceptional data challenges require your unique skills. You can be the next big thing in data. 

Western Digital® data-centric solutions are comprised of the Western Digital, G-Technology™, SanDisk® and WD® brands.

Western Digital is an equal opportunity employer. 

Western Digital does not discriminate on the basis of 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 person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s 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 non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the "Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law" poster.  

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