Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

25d

About The Position

Microsoft Frontier Co. is a new line of business within MCAPS, bringing together industry expertise, strategic partnerships, and engineering to help customers achieve measurable outcomes with AI. The Senior Human Resources Business Partner supports the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Studios, which embed engineers in customer environments to deliver AI outcomes for Fortune 50 companies. The role helps shape talent strategy, build FDE capabilities, and scale teams that deliver customer outcomes. This is a hands-on, strategic HR partnership role focused on connecting people decisions to customer outcomes, studio capacity, delivery quality, and cost-to-serve. The HR Business Partner will help redesign work, roles, and teams so engineers and AI agents can work together effectively, and will build, test, simplify, and scale solutions alongside the studios. The role operates at studio speed, presents clear options and trade-offs, and optimizes for the broader Frontier organization. The role supports leaders through organizational growth, change, and transformation; improves organizational effectiveness; and leads strategic talent planning aligned with business objectives. It uses data and workforce insights to address talent risks, close capability gaps, improve retention, and strengthen organizational performance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field and 7+ years of experience in human resources or related processes, such as hiring or performance management, or equivalent experience; OR master's degree in Business, Human Resources, or a related field and 4+ years of experience in human resources or related processes, such as hiring, training, or performance management, or equivalent experience.
5+ years operating as a strategic Human Resources Business Partner supporting senior leaders, or equivalent experience.
4+ years of experience partnering with a wide network of clients and across Human Resources to deliver effective business solutions.
Experience with large-scale change management.

Responsibilities

Support leaders through organizational growth, change, and transformation with strategic guidance, change management expertise, and people solutions that enable business agility and execution.
Influence leaders and hold them accountable for building 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 performance and organizational outcomes.
Partner with leaders to design organizational structures, workforce strategies, and operating models that support business growth, agility, and evolving priorities.
Anticipate organizational risks and recommend solutions that strengthen execution, employee experience, and long-term business success.
Lead strategic talent planning that aligns workforce needs, hiring plans, succession strategies, and talent investments with 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 decisions that strengthen organizational performance.
Connect people decisions to customer outcomes, studio capacity, delivery quality, and cost-to-serve.
Redesign work, roles, and teams to enable engineers and AI agents to work together effectively.
Build, test, simplify, and scale solutions alongside the studios.