Teams at Western Digital

Leads Western Digital’s corporate venture capital arm, owning portfolio management, investment thesis development, startup sourcing, diligence, valuation, deal structuring, negotiation, and closing. Presents recommendations to executives and investment committees, manages portfolio governance and follow-on decisions, builds venture ecosystem relationships, and partners with business, technical, legal, finance, and strategy leaders. The role focuses on early-stage technology investments aligned with storage, semiconductor, data infrastructure, and AI/ML priorities, with 20–30% travel.

Analyzes workforce data to support strategic HR decisions and organizational effectiveness. Responsibilities include building HR dashboards, conducting statistical analysis, developing workforce and talent models, ensuring data governance, presenting executive insights, optimizing recruitment metrics, supporting compensation analysis, and identifying HR process automation opportunities.

Supports Head-Disk-Interface integration and product improvements involving yield, quality, test time, tribology, and failure analysis. Collaborates with development, firmware, head, and media teams to improve detectability, process performance, cost, and supply chain efficiency. Supports engineering change qualification and the ramp-up of HAMR products. Uses Python, C++, SQL, and analytical tools for data analysis.