Senior Human Resources Business Partner
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 design, deploy, and improve AI systems that deliver measurable outcomes. The organization focuses on helping customers turn AI into lasting business value and is designed to operate at customer speed. The Senior Human Resources Business Partner supports the Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Studios, which place engineers directly in customer environments to deliver AI outcomes. The role shapes talent strategy and helps build and scale FDE capabilities and teams. It connects people decisions to customer outcomes, studio capacity, delivery quality, and cost-to-serve; redesigns work, roles, and teams so engineers and AI agents can work together; and builds, tests, simplifies, and scales solutions in partnership with the studios. The role requires hands-on partnership, sound judgment, and an ability to provide clear options and trade-offs while optimizing for Frontier Co. as a whole.
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; alternatively, a master's degree in a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- 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 by providing strategic guidance, change-management expertise, and people solutions that enable business agility and execution.
- Influence leaders and hold them accountable for creating high-performing teams and fostering accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Assess organizational health, team effectiveness, leadership capability, and operating rhythms; identify opportunities to improve business performance 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 that strengthen organizational performance.
- Connect people decisions to customer outcomes, studio capacity, delivery quality, and cost-to-serve.
- Redesign work, roles, and teams to support effective collaboration between engineers and AI agents.
- Build, test, simplify, and scale solutions alongside the FDE Studios.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
