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About the Role

The Director of CoreAI Talent Management partners directly with the EVP of Microsoft CoreAI and senior Engineering leaders to architect and govern talent systems that enable sustained leadership excellence, technical depth, and long-term organizational resilience. This role shapes how one of Microsoft’s most visible and consequential businesses builds its future leadership bench at scale, with enterprise impact.

Responsibilities

Define and govern Talent Management strategy for Microsoft CoreAI, 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.
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, and long-term sustainability.
Own the design, evolution, and governance of core talent programs (succession, leadership development, talent movement).
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.
Ensure integration across Talent, Learning, and Organizational Development ecosystems.
Serve as a trusted advisor to the EVP of CoreAI and senior Engineering leadership, influencing critical talent decisions with data-driven insights and enterprise perspective.
Represent Microsoft’s long-term interests by balancing immediate business needs with sustained leadership and capability health.
Communicate talent strategies and implications clearly at the executive level.
Elevate the talent conversation from “who and where” to capability, readiness, and future leadership supply.
Leverage business priorities, bench strength assessments, workforce data, growth projections, and AI‑enabled insights to diagnose risk and opportunity across the leadership pipeline.
Sponsor and guide the design of AI‑native talent diagnostics, models, and tools.
Identify systemic gaps in how talent decisions are made and drive solutions that shift leaders from intuition‑led judgments to AI‑informed, human‑accountable decisions.
Ensure talent data and AI insights are trusted, explainable, and embedded in the rhythm of business decision making.
Lead enterprise‑level change strategies to evolve talent management.
Embed Microsoft’s cultural attributes, leadership principles, and management excellence frameworks as explicit decision standards.
Hold leaders accountable for applying culture and leadership principles consistently across succession, development, and movement decisions.
Act as a culture amplifier—reinforcing inclusive, agile, and future‑focused leadership behaviors through talent systems.
Build/deepen Talent Management capability of the HRBP teams.

Requirements

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
Demonstrated success partnering with executive stakeholders to drive outcome‑oriented talent decisions.
Experience operating within global, matrixed engineering or product organizations.
Track record of shaping enterprise talent models, governance, and decision frameworks.

Skills

Talent Management
HR practices
Program/project management
Succession planning
Leadership development
Talent movement
Data-driven insights
Enterprise perspective
Analytics
AI-enabled insights
Change leadership
Culture integration

Location

U.S.
San Francisco Bay area
New York City metropolitan area

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

10+ years
15+ years
5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree
Master's Degree

Salary/Compensations

USD $130,900 - $277,200 per year (U.S.)
USD $165,600 - $303,600 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)

Benefits

Additional benefits and pay information available at https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

About the Company

Microsoft CoreAI depends on world‑class technology, 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 for Microsoft CoreAI.

Equal Opportunity

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.
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