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HR Director, Microsoft AI

Microsoft· HR Business Partnership
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Mountain View, CA$130.9k - $277.2kfull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

HR Director supporting the Microsoft AI (MAI) organization, leading people strategies to enable growth, talent excellence, and business impact. Serves as trusted advisor and strategic integrator across HR Business Partners, Recruiting, and Centers of Excellence to deliver coordinated people solutions for MAI in an agile, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team, ensuring delivery of high-impact people solutions that support business growth, organizational effectiveness, and employee success.
  • 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 and hold leaders accountable for creating high-performing teams while fostering a culture of 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 enable business growth, organizational agility, and execution of evolving priorities.
  • Anticipate organizational risks and proactively recommend solutions that strengthen execution, employee experience, and long-term business success.
  • Lead strategic talent planning efforts that align 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.
  • Leverage data and workforce insights to identify talent risks, improve retention, and inform talent decisions that strengthen organizational performance.
  • Lead complex people initiatives that support organizational growth, workforce transformation, organizational changes, and evolving business priorities.
  • Partner across HR to shape, adapt, and implement enterprise programs and people strategies to meet the unique needs of the MAI organization.
  • Leverage employee feedback, organizational insights, and workforce trends to identify opportunities to improve culture, engagement, inclusion, and the overall employee experience at scale.

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 6+ years experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, training, performance management)
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 9+ years experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, performance management)
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years 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.

Skills

Required:Strategic planningExecutive communicationChange managementTalent management
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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