Senior Manager, Ethics & Compliance Operations

Company: Western Digital
Location: Campbell
Posted on: February 10, 2026

Job Description:

Company Description At Western Digital, 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, Western Digital 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, Western Digital 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 The Senior Manager of Ethics & Compliance (E&C) Operations enables and manages the execution, governance, and continuous improvement of the company’s E&C operational framework. This role oversees compliance operations, training, analytics, audits, communications and program governance, applying strong project management and data-driven insights to ensure audit readiness and scalable compliance programs across the organization. The Senior Manager of E&C Operations will be an integral member of the E&C function in the Legal Department and will report to the Senior Director of E&C Operations. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Enable compliance operations across E&C programs, including governance, analytics, training, communications and audit support. Manage operational planning, budgeting, forecasting, vendor oversight, and contract management for compliance-related activities. Oversee end-to-end project management for compliance training initiatives and program evaluations, including scoping, timelines, milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder coordination. Manage relationship with Learning Management System (LMS) owners, including technical testing of course files, tracking of employee training completion, develop and maintain training reports and statistics governance, data integrity, reporting, enhancements, and issue resolution. Develop and oversee online and instructor-led training programs, ensuring consistent standards, documentation, and global scalability. Design, maintain, and oversee compliance dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting to monitor risk, performance, and program effectiveness. Execute program evaluations, perceptions survey, external certifications and risk assessments by coordinating documentation, data, testing, and remediation tracking. Maintain compliance governance frameworks, including policies, procedures, controls documentation, and evidence management to ensure audit readiness. Monitor, respond/redirect to employee questions, requests, and reports. Develop and execute multi-channel communication strategies to support E&C awareness initiatives (e.g., campaigns, risk alerts, policy updates). Partner cross-functionally with Legal, Internal Audit, Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to support integration and continuous improvement. Prepare executive-level reporting and insights to senior leadership, Audit Committee, and Board stakeholders. Other special projects and duties as assigned. Qualifications Required Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university. 10 years of experience in legal or ethics and compliance operations, risk management, or internal audit, or related field preferred. Experience and working knowledge of Learning Management Systems (LMS), including reporting and training data governance with working knowledge of modern learning and content development tools (e.g. Mindsmith, Synthesia, etc.). Experience in data analytics, metrics development, dashboards, and executive reporting. Data visualization and experience with analytics tools (e.g. Power BI and Python) for data analysis or reporting is a strong advantage. Proven project management experience, managing multiple initiatives with competing priorities. Proven people management and development experience, managing cross functional and global teams Experience with budgeting, vendor management, and contract oversight. Skills Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel (including V-lookups, pivot tables, and advanced functions) and PowerPoint. Effective communication and interpersonal skills with a collaborative mindset. Self-motivated with strong work ethics with the ability to work well with a variety of stakeholders, including Legal, Internal Audit, Finance, IT and business functions. Global mindset with demonstrated ability to work effectively across cultures and regions. To support collaboration, this role requires three designated in-office days each week. Position requires little to no travel. Additional Information Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate 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 Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster. 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. Based on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 05//6/2026 (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. 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 Companys sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law

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