Director, People Business Partnership
About The Position
As a Director, People Business Partnership in Microsoft's Geo Commercial People Team, you will shape talent strategy for fast-growing and innovative businesses, connecting people decisions to business results such as customer outcomes, capacity, delivery quality, and cost-to-serve. You will use people data and insights to guide decisions and, as the business becomes AI-native, redesign work, roles, and teams so people and agents can work effectively together. This is a hands-on role in which you will build, test, simplify, and scale solutions, while serving as a trusted advisor to leaders. You will take initiative, offer clear options and trade-offs, prioritize the collective over a single client group, and bring curiosity, sound judgment, and a growth mindset.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field and 9+ years of experience in human resources or related processes, or a master's degree in one of those fields and 6+ years of such experience, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience partnering with a wide network of clients and across human resources to deliver effective business solutions, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field and 12+ years of experience in human resources or related processes, or bachelor's degree in one of those fields and 15+ years of such experience, or equivalent experience.
- Human Resources professional certification (e.g., PHR, SPHR, SHRM, CIPD).
- 4+ years of experience partnering with a wide network of clients and across human resources to deliver effective business solutions.
- For Frontier Company People roles, experience in a startup People function is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Partner with leaders across the Commercial business to align people, organization, and culture strategies with business priorities.
- Provide strategic People guidance that supports organizational goals, growth, and business transformation.
- Build trusted partnerships with leaders to identify opportunities that strengthen organizational effectiveness and employee experience.
- Coach and advise leaders on team effectiveness, leadership practices, organizational health, and employee engagement.
- Facilitate discussions that help leaders strengthen collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and decision-making.
- Support leaders in creating environments where employees can grow, contribute, and perform at their best.
- Lead organizational design initiatives, including workforce planning, organizational restructures, operating model changes, and business transformation efforts.
- Develop and implement change management strategies that support successful adoption of organizational priorities and business objectives.
- Partner with stakeholders to ensure organizational changes are communicated clearly and executed effectively.
- Collaborate with leaders to develop talent strategies that support current and future business needs.
- Assess organizational capabilities, identify talent gaps, and recommend solutions that enable long-term success.
- Support succession planning, talent development, and workforce planning efforts to strengthen organizational readiness.
- Use people insights, employee feedback, organizational health metrics, talent movement trends, attrition data, compensation information, and manager effectiveness indicators to inform recommendations.
- Identify emerging organizational opportunities and risks through analysis of workforce data and trends.
- Provide leaders with actionable insights that support informed decision-making and organizational health.
- Redesign work, roles, and teams so people and agents can work effectively together as the business becomes AI-native.
- Build, test, simplify, and scale solutions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
