Senior Manager, Global Event Strategy & Experiences

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

At WD, our vision is to power global innovation and push the boundaries of technology to make what you thought was once impossible, possible.

At our core, WD is a company of problem solvers. People achieve extraordinary things given the right technology. For decades, we’ve been doing just that—our technology helped people put a man on the moon and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole.

We offer an expansive portfolio of technologies, HDDs, and platforms for business, creative professionals, and consumers alike under our Western Digital®, WD®, and WD_BLACK™.

We are a key partner to some of the largest and highest-growth organizations in the world. From enabling systems to make cities safer and more connected, to powering the data centers behind many of the world’s biggest companies and hyperscale cloud providers, to meeting the massive and ever-growing data storage needs of the AI era, WD is fueling a brighter, smarter future.

Today’s exceptional challenges require your unique skills. Together, we can build the future of data storage.

Job Description

As part of the dynamic, results-oriented Corporate Marketing organization, the Senior Manager, Global Events & Experiences will play a key role within WD’s Brand Strategy & Experience team. The primary objective of this role is to lead the centralized strategic planning of WD’s Tier-1 global industry events and experiential programs, defining the global vision, priorities, and experience frameworks that guide how WD shows up at its most important market moments. 

WD is the storage foundation of the AI-driven data economy, delivering durable storage systems that form the indispensable infrastructure behind AI innovation. Industry events are critical moments where this leadership must be demonstrated. The Senior Manager, Global Events & Experiences will bring this narrative to life through high-impact brand experiences that showcase WD’s leadership in capacity, performance, and efficiency across the global AI infrastructure ecosystem. 

Working closely with AR/PR, Brand, Channel Marketing, Communications, Product Marketing, and Sales, and regional teams, this role ensures WD shows up with clarity, credibility, and consistency across Tier-1 global industry conferences, executive engagements, and ecosystem moments. Regional and channel teams play a critical role in execution, while this role provides the centralized strategy and alignment across the organization.

What You’ll Achieve  

• High-impact brand experiences that demonstrate WD’s leadership in the AI-driven data economy 
• Increased visibility for WD across the global AI infrastructure and enterprise technology ecosystem 
• Strategic event programs aligned to key enterprise marketing priorities 
• Strong cross-functional partnerships across marketing, communications, and sales teams 
• Consistent and compelling brand presence at flagship global industry conferences 

Key Duties  

• Set the strategic direction for WD’s presence at Tier-1 global technology events and conferences 
  •Develop integrated pre-event, at-event, and post-event marketing strategies in partnership with Corporate Marketing, Product Marketing, Communications, Digital, Customer Marketing, and Sales to maximize awareness, engagement, and business impact.

• Serve as the steward of WD's event narrative, ensuring a consistent brand experience across regions, audiences, executive presentations, booths, customer engagements, and ecosystem activations.
• Develop integrated event strategies including booth experiences, executive engagements, partner activations, and thought leadership programs 
• Continuously assess the evolving global event and industry landscape, emerging conferences and ecosystem shifts to anticipate where WD should show up next, and recommend which new events to enter, scale, sustain, or exit. 
• Lead planning of WD’s presence at Tier-1 global technology events, ensuring the company’s role as the storage foundation of the AI-driven data economy is clearly demonstrated through messaging, experiences, and executive engagement.
• Design the frameworks and principles that guide experiential programs and translate WD’s enterprise narrative into visible proof points across AI infrastructure, data innovation, and hyperscale ecosystems.
• Partner with regional and channel teams responsible for execution resources and delivery. 
• Coordinate cross-functional alignment across Product Marketing, Sales, Communications, and Brand Strategy teams.
• Partner with PR and executive communications teams to develop high-impact executive engagement strategies including keynote platforms, analyst engagements, media opportunities, and VIP experiences.
• Support executive visibility through keynotes, panel discussions, customer roundtables, and ecosystem engagements.
• Establish planning processes, governance, and operating rhythms that align Product Marketing, Sales, Regional Marketing, Communications, Brand, and executive stakeholders around shared event objectives.
• Capture strategic content and insights from events in partnership with Customer Marketing and Communications teams 
• Define success metrics and business KPIs for strategic events, measuring brand impact, customer engagement, executive influence, and organizational learnings to continuously improve future programs.
• Build scalable processes and operational frameworks to support the future growth of WD's global events function.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or equivalent experience 
• 10+ years of experience working in enterprise IT, AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, or data infrastructure markets  
• Familiarity with major industry conferences such as AI infrastructure, hyperscale, or enterprise technology events 
• Proven track record managing large-scale global industry conferences and brand activations 
• Experience managing agencies, vendors, and complex event production environments 
• Strong cross-functional collaboration across marketing, sales, and executive stakeholders 
• Strategic thinker with exceptional executive presence and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
• Skillful verbal and written communicator 
• Self-motivated and adaptable in a fast-paced environment 

Additional Information

WD is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their 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 "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available HERE

WD thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

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Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 10/06/2026(3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.

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 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. 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.

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

Notice To Candidates: Please be aware that WD and its subsidiaries will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment. Should you encounter any such requests, please report it immediately to WD Ethics Helpline or email View email address on ziprecruiter.com.