Western Digital

RAMP MBA Product Internship

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Milpitas, CA

Job Description

RAMP MBA Product Internship

MBA summer @ the Product Rotation Program

The position

The summer internship of the Western Digital Product Rotation program is an intensive, exciting opportunity to work for ~12 weeks on a challenging project in our product organization during the summer. Roles in this program vary from Product Management, Product Marketing, Product Strategy, to other related roles.

The internship is part of our broader Summer RAMP Program which combines all our internships across multiple programs. In it, you will take a deeper dive into professional life at Western Digital by getting exposure to different parts of the organization. Some program elements include:

* On the job training and mentorship with industry professionals
* Professional development trainings
* Executive exposure
* Networking events with other interns and Western Digital employees

If you want to work at the absolute leading edge in technology innovation, then Western Digital is the place to work. Our products operate at the boundaries of what is scientifically achievable. At unimaginably small scale, using the most advanced technologies in the world. Almost any leading technology product in the world is powered by our products, whether it be mobile, IOT, internet, or wearable. We jointly innovate with each of these areas to bring you the future.

Western Digital relies heavily on these MBA summer internship roles to fill our full time positions in the Product Rotation Program. The full-time rotation program offers the opportunity to solve complex problems in a variety of roles. The purpose of the Product Rotation Program is to create future leaders in our company by giving highly talented MBAs ample opportunity to drive work that matters, and the exposure and development that enables them to do this.

Preferred qualifications

* Demonstrated ability and experience in effectively interacting with executives
* Strong quantitative and analytical skills
* Experience working through change and solving complex problems
* Team player, highly collaborative, while maintaining an agile mindset
* Flexible, self-motivated, and getting things done

Experience

* Required - MBA degree and an undergraduate degree
* Preferred undergrad in a technical field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or another hard science)
* Preferred - prior work experience in semiconductor industry
* Preferred prior work experience with a top consulting or investment banking firm

Western Digital

San Jose, CA

Western Digital Corporation develops, manufactures, and sells data storage devices and solutions worldwide. It offers client devices, including hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, such as desktop and notebook PCs, security surveillance systems, gaming consoles, and set top boxes; flash-based embedded storage products for mobile phones, tablets, notebook PCs, and other portable and wearable devices, as well as automotive, IoT, industrial, and connected home applications; flash-based memory wafers; and embedded storage solutions and iNAND embedded flash products, such as multi-chip package solutions.

The company also provides data center devices and solutions comprising enterprise helium hard drives; enterprise SSDs consisting of flash-based SSDs and software solutions for use in enterprise servers, online transactions, data analysis, and other enterprise applications; data center solutions, including HDDs and drive configurations for use in data storage systems and tiered storage models; system solutions that offer petabyte scalable capacity; and data storage platforms and systems. In addition, it offers client solution, such as external HDD storage products in mobile and desktop form; client SSDs; removable cards used in consumer devices comprising mobile phones, tablets, imaging systems, still cameras, action video cameras, and security surveillance systems; universal serial bus flash drives used in the computing and consumer markets; and wireless drive products for in-field back up of created content, as well as wireless streaming of high-definition movies, photos, music and documents to tablets, smartphones, and personal computers (PCs).

The company sells its products under the HGST, SanDisk, and WD brands to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, resellers, cloud infrastructure players, and retailers. Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.