Data Products Lead

Job Description Data Products Lead

As the Leader of our Data as a Product (DaaP) initiative within the Enterprise Analytics team you will be a pivotal change agent in our data transformation. You will report to the Senior Manager of Data Governance and Data Quality and will be responsible for spearheading the shift from traditional centralized data management to a domain-oriented data product-based approach.

This role will evangelize DaaP concepts and operationalize a federated governance framework required to treat Western Digitals enterprise data as discoverable trustworthy and reusable assets. Your success will be measured by our ability to accelerate data-driven decision-making reduce time-to-insight and establish a single trusted source of truth for our key data domains.

Key Responsibilities

Your primary responsibility is to develop implement and evangelize the Data as a Product model. This includes :

Strategy & Evangelism

• Develop and execute the strategic roadmap for operationalizing the Data as a Product model
• Act as the primary evangelist across the organization educating stakeholders (from executives to analysts) on the value of a product-oriented data culture.
• Collaborate with business domains (e.g. HR Finance Supply Chain Sales) to identify prioritize and scope high-value data products.

Data Product Lifecycle & Standards

Discoverable : Fully documented and cataloged with rich metadata in our data governance platform (Atlan).

Federated Governance & Stewardship

Technology & Enablement

Qualifications :

Experience with access controls and InfoSec principles like least privilege

Additional Information :

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 persons gender identity gender expression and gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the persons 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.

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Based on our experience we anticipate that the application deadline will be 02 / 11 / 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.

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Remote Work : Yes

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Administrative Skills,Facilities Management,Biotechnology,Creative Production,Design And Estimation,Architecture

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1