Western Digital

Principal AI Program Manager

San Jose, CA, United States · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 23 days ago

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About the role

It's real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.
Join us and let's shape the future of data.
This role is the operational backbone of the Enterprise AI Center of Excellence (AI CoE), housed within the Office of the CIO.

Own the enterprise AI portfolio view: initiative tracking, dependencies, risks, and projected value
Build and maintain intake, prioritization, and stage-gate processes for AI investment decisions
Develop the AI roadmap with the CoE Program Lead, aligned to enterprise strategy
Co-develop the transformation strategy with Head of AI COE and translate objectives into discrete initiatives
Develop and maintain integrated roadmap
Drive end-to-end delivery across data engineering, data science, app dev, infrastructure, security, and business teams
Partner with business units to identify use cases, build business cases, and define success metrics
Build out CoE enablement assets - playbooks, AI literacy programs, and shared tooling standards
Drive adoption through change management, communications, and training

Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time.

Ensure accountability to committed milestones and stage gates
Track and report ROI across the portfolio to the CIO and C-suite
Embed responsible AI guardrails (bias, transparency, privacy, compliance) in partnership with Legal, Risk, and InfoSec
0- 10+ years in program management, technology strategy, or management consulting
0- 3+ years managing AI/ML or advanced analytics programs
Strong grasp of the AI/ML lifecycle - data prep through MLOps and monitoring
Executive communication skills
able to make technical topics actionable for senior leaders

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 WD'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.

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 WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.

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