Western Digital

Partnership Manager Gaming

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Irvine, CA

Job Description

Western Digital

The next big thing in data is you!

As Partnership Manager Gaming you will be working with product and segment marketing teams, manage and track engagements with top-tier gaming software publishers. You will maintain and track all product development and co-marketing/co-promotion efforts across a broadly matrixed organization. You will work with the outbound and corporate marketing teams to develop on-brand, on-message, on-budget and mutually beneficial GTM campaigns on a sustained basis. You will develop and track KPIs, including sales and brand metrics. You will collaborate with internal OEM customer and regional/channel marketing teams to ensure sustained, end-to-end engagement from engineering through public communication. You will work with product and software partners to define, produce and promote revenue-generating, high-value collaborations for WDC and their software partners, primarily in the gaming space.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Develop and maintain internal and external partner dashboards, managing overall schedule, associated deliverables and marketing assets
* Draft content, including creative briefs, messaging maps, press release outlines and presentations
* GTM expertise, including a thorough understanding of the lead-times required to produce complex omni-channel assets with multiple partners
* Foster cross-functional working relationships
* Ensure appropriate regional and sales enablement content distribution

REQUIRED

* Degree from an accredited university
* 5+ years of related experience
* Passion for technology and how it improves and enriches peoples liveswork and play.
* Understanding of storage industry, gaming, or software development
* Excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills with demonstrated ability in a distributed, matrixed organization.
* Solid understanding of project management principles
* Familiarity with B2B and B2C advertising campaigns
* Willingness to travel (when appropriate and safe to do so) Responsibilities

ABOUT WESTERN DIGITAL

The future. Its on you. You & Western Digital.

Weve been storing the worlds data for more than 50 years. Once, it was the most important thing we could do for data. Now were helping the world capture, preserve, access and transform data in a way only we can.

The most game-changing companies, consumers, professionals, and governments come to us for the technologies and solutions they need to capture, preserve, access, and transform their data.

But we cant do it alone. Todays exceptional data challenges require your exceptional skills. Its You & Us. Together, were the next big thing in data.

Western Digital data-centric solutions are found under the G-Technology, SanDisk, Upthere, and WD brands.

Western Digital is an equal opportunity employer.

Western Digital does not discriminate on the basis of 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 Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

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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.

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