G&A Recruiter (Sales, Marketing, HR, Corporate Functions)

The G&A Recruiter will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, including HR, Sales, Marketing, Strategy, and the ELT, driving full-cycle recruitment and talent strategy. This role requires a highly polished talent professional with deep functional recruiting expertise, advanced sourcing capability, mastery of AI-driven recruiting tools, and exceptional relationship-building skills.

You will partner with executives to define future skill needs, drive long-term talent pipeline development, and elevate hiring practices across the organization through data, insights, and modern assessment methodologies.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

Executive Talent Partnership & Advisory

• Serve as a consultative talent advisor to HR, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Functions, and ELT stakeholders.
• Educate leaders on hiring trends, market intelligence, competitive insights, and future-of-work capabilities.
• Influence and guide stakeholders toward best-practice recruiting processes, ensuring a consistent, high-quality candidate experience.
• Provide insights from LinkedIn Talent Insights, Compete dashboards, and market mapping to inform strategic workforce decisions.

Full-Cycle Recruitment Excellence

• Lead end-to-end recruiting for Sales, Marketing, HRBP/COE, and other G&A roles.
• Drive rigorous intake/kickoff meetings, structured process management, candidate evaluation, and offer negotiation.
• Ensure strong funnel discipline and a data-driven approach to quality of hire.

Advanced Sourcing & Pipeline Development

• Build, nurture, and manage proactive talent pipelines for critical and future-facing roles.
• Utilize expert-level knowledge of LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Insights, and AI-enabled sourcing tools to surface high-caliber talent.
• Apply advanced Boolean search, persona-based sourcing, and competitive mapping strategies.

Assessment & Interviewing Expertise

• Certified or highly experienced in VBI (Value Based Interviewing) and BBI (Behavior Based Interviewing) methodologies.
• Experienced in facilitating and coaching leaders on Case Study assessments, including panel interview design and evaluation calibration.
• Train hiring teams on structured interviewing, bias mitigation, and consistent evaluation standards.

AI, Automation & Recruiting Innovation

• Leverage modern AI tools, prompts, and sourcing automations to increase recruiter efficiency and quality of hire.
• Stay up to date with emerging recruiting technologies, competitive platforms, and talent intelligence tools.
• Coach ELT and hiring managers on how AI is transforming talent markets and what skillsets will matter most over the next 3–5 years.

Candidate Experience & Relationship Management

• Deliver a high-touch, transparent candidate journey from first contact through offer acceptance.
• Maintain strong relationships with leaders, HRBPs, and cross-functional partners to ensure alignment on priorities.
• Represent WD as a brand ambassador to the external talent market.

Required Qualifications:

• 7–10+ years of recruiting experience, with at least 4+ years supporting Sales, Marketing, and HR roles (enterprise or global scale preferred).
• Deep expertise with LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Talent Insights, and advanced Boolean sourcing; certifications strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of modern recruiting technologies, including AI sourcing tools, prompt engineering, talent intelligence platforms, and CRM automations.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with executives and influence senior-level decision-makers.
• Proven experience building and sustaining long-term pipelines for high-impact G&A roles.
• Hands-on experience with VBI, BBI, structured interview techniques, and/or case study facilitation.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong business acumen and ability to understand organizational capability needs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a global, matrixed technology company.
• Exposure to Sales enablement, marketing analytics, modern HR technologies, or digital transformation.
• Ability to translate talent trends into practical workforce planning insights.
• Certification in industry-standard interviewing or assessment frameworks (VBI, BBI, Hogan, Gallup, etc.).

Western Digital 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.

Western Digital 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.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 3/8/26, 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.

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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.

Notice To Candidates: Please be aware that Western Digital 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 Western Digital Ethics Helpline or email [email protected].