Director Talent Management

Why MicrosoftCoreAI- and Why This Role Matters

The success of MicrosoftCoreAIdepends not only onworldclasstechnology, but on exceptional engineering leadership, deep technical talent, and the ability to scale capability faster than the threat landscape evolves. Talent density, leadership readiness, and the ability to move and grow critical skills at pace are strategic imperatives.

This role sits at the heart of that challenge.

As DirectorofCoreAITalentManagement, you will partner directly with the EVP of MicrosoftCoreAIand seniorEngineering leaders to architect and govern the talent systems that enable sustained leadership excellence, technical depth, andlongtermorganizational resilience. This is a rare opportunity to shape how one of Microsoft's most visible and consequential businesses builds its future leadership bench-at scale, with enterprise impact.

Role Overview

The Talent Management Director architects and governs Microsoft'sCoreAITalent Management strategy to enable leadership excellence and build afuturereadyengineering organization.

Operating at the intersection of strategy, innovation, execution, and leadership development, this role ensureshighimpacttalent decisions that directly support business performance, outcomes, andlongtermcompetitive advantage.

As a strategic partner tothe EVP ofCoreAI, senior Engineering leaders, and Human Resources leadership, this rolesetstalentdirection,establishesdecision frameworks, and enables leaders to grow, move, andretaintalent at scale. This leader serves as a catalyst for Microsoft'sfuturereadytalent model-shaping how talent isidentified, developed, deployed, and sustained across a complex, global engineering ecosystem.

1. Enterprise Talent Strategy & Outcomes

• Define and governTalent Management strategy for MicrosoftCoreAI, ensuring alignment with business priorities, growth plans, and future capability needs.

• Establish enterprise decision frameworks and guardrails for succession, talent movement, leadership development, and readiness-enabling consistent,highqualitytalent decisions acrossCoreAIandEngineering.

• Translate business strategy into measurable talent outcomes, shifting focus from process execution to decision quality, bench strength, and leadership readiness.

• Ensure talent investments directly support engineering productivity, scale, andlongtermsustainability in a rapidly evolving threat environment.

2. Program Architecture, Governance & Execution Through Others

• Own the design, evolution, and governance of core talent programs (succession, leadership development, talent movement,moving beyond implementation to enterprise activation and scale.

• Set clear success measures, decision rights, and operating expectations; hold delivery teams and partners accountable for outcomes.

• Enable execution through Centers of Excellence, HR Business Partners, and business leaders-rather than directly managing delivery.

• Ensure integration across Talent, Learning, and Organizational Development ecosystems while preventing fragmentation or duplicative effort.

3. Strategic Consulting, Influence & Storytelling

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the EVP ofCoreAIand senior Engineering leadership, influencing critical talent decisions withdatadriveninsights and enterprise perspective.

• Represent Microsoft'slongterminterests by balancing immediate business needs with sustained leadership and capability health.

• Communicatetalent strategies and implications clearly at the executive level-translating complexity into crisp recommendations and decision options.

• Elevate the talent conversation from "who and where" to capability, readiness, and future leadership supply.

4. Analytics, Innovation & Decision Tools

• Leverage business priorities, bench strength assessments, workforce data, growth projections, andAIenabledinsightsto diagnose risk and opportunity across the leadership pipeline.

• Sponsor and guide the design ofAInativetalent diagnostics, models, and toolsthat improve forecasting, benchmarking, and enterprise decision quality at scale.

• Identifysystemic gaps in how talent decisions are made and drive solutions thatshift leaders fromintuitionledjudgments toAIinformed,humanaccountabledecisions.

• Ensure talent data and AI insights are trusted, explainable, and embedded in the rhythm of business decision making-withclear ownership and accountability for outcomes.

5. Change Leadership & Culture Integration

• Leadenterpriselevelchange strategies to evolve talent management in line with MicrosoftCoreAI'sscale, pace, and mission.

• Embed Microsoft's cultural attributes, leadership principles, andmanagementexcellence frameworks as explicit decision standards, not aspirational inputs.

• Hold leaders accountable for applying culture and leadership principles consistently across succession, development, and movement decisions.

• Act as a culture amplifier-reinforcing inclusive, agile, andfuturefocusedleadership behaviors through talent systems.

• Build/deepen Talent Management capability of the HRBP teams

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field AND 10+ years experience in HR practices or program/project management
  • OR 15+ years experience in HR practices or program/project management
• 5+ years managing large-scale or complex projects/program

• Master's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Organization Development, Psychology, or related field
• Demonstrated success partnering with executive stakeholders to drive outcomeorientedtalent decisions.
• Experience operating within global, matrixed engineering or product organizations.
• Track record of shaping enterprise talent models, governance, and decision frameworks.

Talent Management IC6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $165,600 - $303,600 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.