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Overview Shape the Future of Talent at Microsoft Our team is looking for a Senior Talent Manager - Talent Platform. In this role, you will help define how Microsoft identifies, develops, and grows talent at scale. As the leader of the Talent Platform strategy and roadmap, you will drive the evolution, adoption, and impact of one of Microsoft's most important talent capabilities, enabling better experiences and outcomes for employees, managers, HR partners, and business leaders around the world. You will guide the platform's vision through FY27 and beyond, ensuring it delivers meaningful business value through thoughtful governance, scalable adoption, and seamless integration across our talent ecosystem, HR technologies, and data platforms. Working at the intersection of talent strategy, product leadership, data, and AI, you will collaborate with Talent Managers, HR Business Partners, engineering teams, and other key stakeholders to reimagine how talent decisions are made and supported. You will play an important role in shaping the next generation of talent experiences, including emerging agentic and AI-powered capabilities that help people and organizations thrive. This is a unique opportunity to influence both strategy and execution by combining customer-focused thinking, data-informed decision making, and cross-functional partnership. You'll help translate complex challenges into innovative solutions that create lasting impact across Microsoft. Successful candidates are energized by bringing people together around a shared vision, leading change in dynamic environments, and turning insights into action. They bring experience driving HR products, platforms, programs, or transformational initiatives, using data to improve outcomes, and partnering across disciplines to deliver results. Familiarity with HR technology, data ecosystems, and enterprise-scale change efforts will help you accelerate impact and contribute to the continued evolution of Microsoft's talent landscape. Why This Role Matters This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of talent at Microsoft. You will influence enterprise-wide talent strategy, partner with leaders across the company, pioneer AI-powered talent experiences, and help build the systems that empower people to grow, thrive, and achieve their potential. If you are energized by innovation, collaboration, data, and creating meaningful impact at scale, this role offers the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on how Microsoft develops and invests in its people. If you're excited about creating the future of talent management through technology, AI, collaboration, and innovation, we'd love to hear from you. Responsibilities Shape the Future of the Talent Platform As the Talent Platform lead, you will play a pivotal role in defining how Microsoft enables talent growth, development, and decision-making at scale. You will help create the future of talent experiences by bringing together technology, data, AI, and talent strategy to drive meaningful outcomes for employees, managers, and business leaders worldwide. Product Strategy & Platform Evolution • Define and drive the FY27 and beyond Talent Platform vision, strategy, and roadmap. • Partner closely with engineering and Employee Experience teams to prioritize investments, deliver capabilities, and continuously improve the platform experience. • Translate insights gathered through customer listening, user engagement, and design-thinking approaches into scalable, impactful solutions. • Identify opportunities to strengthen connectivity across talent, rewards, skills, and HR systems to create a more seamless and integrated employee experience. • Expand the platform's reach by enabling new talent use cases and innovative ways to support workforce growth and mobility. • Maintain strong governance practices, including role-based access, permission management, and platform compliance processes. Drive Adoption, Readiness & Organizational Change Success is not only about building great capabilities. It is about creating experiences that people embrace and use every day. • Champion enterprise-wide adoption of the Talent Platform through strong partnerships with HR Business Partners, Talent Managers, and other key stakeholders. • Foster and support a community of platform champions who help amplify best practices and drive engagement. • Lead readiness, enablement, and communication efforts that help individuals and teams confidently adopt new capabilities. • Create user guidance, resources, and tools that embed the platform into everyday talent workflows. • Ensure successful introduction and adoption of emerging capabilities, including AI-powered and agentic experiences. Advance Data, Insights & AI Innovation Data and AI are transforming how organizations understand, develop, and grow talent. This role will help shape that transformation. • Lead the Talent Platform data and insights strategy, translating business needs into actionable reporting, analytics, and decision-making support. • Partner with engineering and People Analytics teams to design data foundations that enable advanced AI and agentic experiences. • Define and evolve dashboards, metrics, and reporting frameworks that measure platform effectiveness and business impact. • Collaborate with technical partners to shape AI-powered solutions that improve user experiences and talent outcomes. • Use data-driven insights to identify opportunities, uncover trends, and continuously enhance platform value. Enable Enterprise-Wide Talent Connectivity This role will serve as a connector across teams, initiatives, and systems to create a more unified talent ecosystem. • Partner across Skills, Rewards, HRBI, MCH, and other organizations to strengthen data consistency and interoperability. • Align Talent Platform priorities with broader enterprise talent and people strategies. • Identify opportunities to improve how talent information is connected, shared, and leveraged to support business decisions. Serve as a Trusted Talent Advisor You will bring a consultative mindset, helping stakeholders navigate complex talent opportunities and challenges. • Provide thought leadership and expertise on Talent Platform capabilities, use cases, and best practices. • Partner with stakeholders across disciplines to solve business challenges and drive talent outcomes. • Use data, insights, and storytelling to influence decisions, build alignment, and accelerate adoption of solutions. Deliver Meaningful Measurement & Impact You will help ensure that investments in talent technology and programs create measurable value. • Define success measures, objectives, and outcomes that evaluate platform adoption, experience, sentiment, and business impact. • Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to identify trends, surface insights, and support informed decision-making. • Recommend proactive solutions that improve experiences, strengthen outcomes, and enable continuous improvement. • Partner with stakeholders to establish accountability and ensure progress toward business goals. Our Culture & Values At Microsoft, how we achieve results is just as important as the results themselves. We are looking for someone who embraces and models our culture by: • Demonstrating a Growth Mindset through curiosity, continuous learning, and openness to feedback. • Creating an environment of inclusion, respect, and belonging where diverse perspectives are valued and heard. • Building trusted relationships through collaboration, empathy, and transparency . • Taking ownership, driving clarity, and helping others succeed during times of change and uncertainty. • Leveraging data and technology responsibly to deliver meaningful outcomes for employees and the business. • Leading with integrity and ensuring decisions are aligned with Microsoft's values and commitment to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Qualifications Required/minimum qualifications • Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field AND 7+ years experience in HR practices or program/project management OR 10+ years experience in HR practices or program/project management OR equivalent experience • 3+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale projects, programs, products, or transformational initiatives, collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, and influencing stakeholders to drive successful outcomes, OR equivalent experience. Additional or preferred qualifications • Master's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Organization Development, Psychology, or related field • Data & Technology Fluency - Familiarity with people analytics, Employee Central data, skills agents, and analytics platforms. Ability to translate insights into actionable strategies and influence technology roadmaps. Experience with HR technology platforms and data integration. Familiarity with AI / agent-based capabilities and their application in HR • Systems Thinking - The ability to analyze and recognize how a system's parts interrelate and how sub-systems work over time within the context of larger systems. This includes the ability to view systems with a broad perspective and identify overall structures, patterns, and cycles. • Program planning and development - Contribute to the development and management of programs and initiatives for relevant audiences by identifying organizational needs, orchestrating stakeholder alignment, securing resources, and communicating with senior stakeholders. Collaborate with others, support and prioritize short-term planning efforts, and long-term employee-centric solutions. • Experience as a product owner or working closely with engineering/product teams • Ability to drive large-scale change and adoption • Experience working across global, matrixed organizations Talent Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 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 $137,600 - $222,600 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: careers.microsoft.com 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.

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Shape the Future of Talent at Microsoft
Why This Role Matters
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of talent at Microsoft.
If you're excited about creating the future of talent management through technology, AI, collaboration, and innovation, we'd love to hear from you.
Shape the Future of the Talent Platform
Product Strategy & Platform Evolution
Define and drive the FY27 and beyond Talent Platform vision, strategy, and roadmap.
Partner closely with engineering and Employee Experience teams to prioritize investments, deliver capabilities, and continuously improve the platform experience.
Translate insights gathered through customer listening, user engagement, and design-thinking approaches into scalable, impactful solutions.
Identify opportunities to strengthen connectivity across talent, rewards, skills, and HR systems to create a more seamless and integrated employee experience.
Expand the platform's reach by enabling new talent use cases and innovative ways to support workforce growth and mobility.
Maintain strong governance practices, including role-based access, permission management, and platform compliance processes.
Drive Adoption, Readiness & Organizational Change
Success is not only about building great capabilities. It is about creating experiences that people embrace and use every day.
Champion enterprise-wide adoption of the Talent Platform through strong partnerships with HR Business Partners, Talent Managers, and other key stakeholders.
Foster and support a community of platform champions who help amplify best practices and drive engagement.
Lead readiness, enablement, and communication efforts that help individuals and teams confidently adopt new capabilities.
Create user guidance, resources, and tools that embed the platform into everyday talent workflows.
Ensure successful introduction and adoption of emerging capabilities, including AI-powered and agentic experiences.
Advance Data, Insights & AI Innovation
Data and AI are transforming how organizations understand, develop, and grow talent. This role will help shape that transformation.
Lead the Talent Platform data and insights strategy, translating business needs into actionable reporting, analytics, and decision-making support.
Partner with engineering and People Analytics teams to design data foundations that enable advanced AI and agentic experiences.

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