Program Manager, Sustainability Communications & Engagement

Location: San Jose, CA 
Department: Corporate Sustainability 
Reports To: Director, Sustainability Disclosure 

Job Type: Full-Time 

We are seeking a sustainability communications and employee engagement expert to join our corporate sustainability team. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing ESG communication strategies that amplify stakeholder value, engaging employees to drive change management through strategic activities and events, and designing programs to embed sustainability into key business functions and decisions. 

The ideal candidate will be an expert communicator with deep understanding of ESG frameworks, concepts, and change theories, combined with strong capabilities to engage employees and influence cross-functional groups without direct authority.  

Job Overview: 

We are seeking a sustainability communications and employee engagement expert to join our corporate sustainability team. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing ESG communication strategies that amplify stakeholder value, engaging employees to drive change management through strategic activities and events, and designing programs to embed sustainability into key business functions and decisions. 

The ideal candidate will be an expert communicator with deep understanding of ESG frameworks, concepts, and change theories, combined with strong capabilities to engage employees and influence cross-functional groups without direct authority.  

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Sustainability communications 

• Develop and implement robust communication strategies that build trust, drive engagement, and enhance reputation. 

• Collaborate with Marketing, PR, and Comms to develop timely, meaningful and high-quality assets, including blogs, press releases, white papers, and thought leadership articles.   

• Develop resources and templates to enable Sales and support customer-facing sustainability communications. 

• Manage, maintain, and update content and resources on WD sustainability websites.   

• Support development of sustainability program decks, presentations, and artifacts.  

• Drive strategy, programming, and narratives for sustainability efforts at key industry conferences and company events.   

1. Employee engagement, educations, and trainings 

• Organize events and activities to engage and mobilize employees for sustainability causes.  

• Design employee-facing sustainability training and education programs, driving high participation rates and concrete actions.  

• Create and promote employee-facing sustainability resources, including playbooks, toolkits, and how-to-guides.   

• Establish a sustainability-focused Employee Resource Group (ERG) and relevant charter to help educate and engage the broader organization.   

1. Embed sustainability into business operations and decisions 

• Build strong relationships with sustainability champions in all business functions.  

• Engage all functions to identify and incubate ESG-related change management opportunities, establish business cases, and develop meaningful and actionable commitments and KPIs in alignment with business goals and values.   

• Track, quantify, and communicate the value and impacts of sustainability initiatives.  

• Integrate sustainability commitments and KPIs into relevant teams' annual planning and goal setting processes.