Organization Effectiveness & Design Lead (AI)

Location: San Jose, CA, United States; hybrid

Salary: USD 164,000–218,700 yearly

Company

hirify.global builds large-scale storage systems and infrastructure for AI-driven data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise environments.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain enterprise workforce planning models covering talent gaps, capability needs, workforce composition, and structural risks.
• Partner with HR business partners and Finance to align headcount plans with business strategy, growth projections, and organizational priorities.
• Support organization design engagements involving team restructuring, role clarification, spans of control, and organizational health analysis.
• Create standardized organization design tools, templates, decision frameworks, reporting, and tracking mechanisms.
• Operationalize AI adoption practices within Organization Development, including assessment frameworks, playbooks, implementation guides, and documented best practices.
• Facilitate capability-building sessions and advise HR leaders and people managers on organizational effectiveness challenges.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in organizational design, workforce planning, or organizational development in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Hands-on experience leading or executing organization design projects, including spans of control analysis, role clarification, and team restructuring.
• Ability to build and operationalize frameworks, tools, and playbooks for consistent use by others.
• Strong analytical skills applied to workforce data, including headcount, attrition, and capability data, with the ability to produce structured recommendations.

Nice to have

• MBA or PhD in Organizational Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Business, or a related field.
• Experience operationalizing AI tools or AI-driven change within an HR or Organization Development function.
• Strategic management consulting experience.
• Familiarity with organization design frameworks such as the Galbraith Star Model, OrgVue, McKinsey 7S, or other consulting frameworks.
• Familiarity with supply/demand modeling, scenario planning, skills-based workforce design, and change management frameworks such as Prosci, ADKAR, Kotter, or agile change management.
• Experience in the technology or semiconductor industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a hybrid work arrangement.
• Benefits include paid vacation and sick leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, and an employee assistance program.
• Additional benefits include tuition reimbursement, transit support, employee stock purchase opportunities, and a WD Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Potential eligibility for short-term or sales incentives, long-term incentives, and restricted stock units depends on the role and applicable plan terms.
• The anticipated application deadline is February 13, 2027, although the posting may close earlier if the role is filled.

Hiring process

• For accommodation requests, contact jobs.accommodations@wdc.com with the requested accommodation, job title, and requisition number.
• Applications may be submitted until the anticipated deadline, subject to earlier closure.