HR Director, Microsoft AI
About The Position
As an HR Director supporting Microsoft AI (MAI), one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses, you will lead and execute people strategies that enable organizational growth, talent excellence, and business impact. As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will serve as a strategic integrator across HR Business Partners, Recruiting, and Centers of Excellence to deliver coordinated people solutions that accelerate business outcomes. Working in MAI’s agile, mission-driven environment, where cross-functional squads work in rapid planning cycles, you will help leaders navigate growth, organizational change, and evolving business priorities. The role combines strategic thinking, business acumen, and operational excellence to deliver outcomes at speed while leading a team and supporting a rapidly evolving organization. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. The company emphasizes a growth mindset, innovation, collaboration, respect, integrity, accountability, and an inclusive culture.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field and 6+ years of experience in human resources or related processes; or bachelor's degree in those fields and 9+ years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- 5+ years of people management experience.
- Experience influencing senior executives and leading through ambiguity in fast-paced, continually evolving environments.
- Experience partnering with technical, product, engineering, or AI-focused organizations.
- Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing HR teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team to deliver people solutions supporting business growth, organizational effectiveness, and employee success.
- Support leaders through organizational growth, change, and transformation with strategic guidance, change management expertise, and people solutions.
- Influence and hold leaders accountable for creating high-performing teams and fostering accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Assess organizational health, team effectiveness, leadership capability, and operating rhythms, identifying opportunities to improve business and organizational outcomes.
- Partner with leaders to design organizational structures, workforce strategies, and operating models that enable growth, agility, and execution of evolving priorities.
- Anticipate organizational risks and recommend solutions that strengthen execution, employee experience, and long-term business success.
- Lead strategic talent planning aligned with workforce needs, hiring plans, succession strategies, talent investments, and business objectives.
- Partner with business leaders, Talent Management, and Recruiting to identify critical talent needs, close capability gaps, and build high-performing talent pipelines.
- Use data and workforce insights to identify talent risks, improve retention, and inform talent decisions.
- Lead complex people initiatives supporting organizational growth, workforce transformation, organizational changes, and evolving priorities.
- Partner across HR to shape, adapt, and implement enterprise programs and people strategies for the MAI organization.
- Use employee feedback, organizational insights, and workforce trends to improve culture, engagement, inclusion, and employee experience at scale.
- Embody Microsoft's culture and values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
