Senior People Business Partner
Microsoft · Washington · $106,400–$203,600 (stated in the posting)
OverviewWhy Microsoft CoreAI — and Why This Role Matters
The success of Microsoft CoreAI depends not only on world class technology, but on exceptional engineering leadership, deep technical talent, and the ability to scale capability as the engineering landscape evolves. CoreAI operates in a fast-moving environment where AI research, engineering, product, and business priorities evolve rapidly. The organization requires people strategy that can support breakthrough innovation, disciplined execution, responsible growth, and an exceptional employee experience at scale.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior People Business Partner to serve as a senior advisor to CoreAI leadership. The Sr. People Business Partner plays a key role in translating complexity into clear, people-centered outcomes that support both individuals and the organization. The role shapes people strategy that enables talent to do meaningful work—balancing rapid response, engineering excellence, and long-term capability building in a high-stakes, fast-moving environment.
The successful candidate will bring executive presence, ownership mindset, deep organization and talent expertise, sound judgment, and the ability to mobilize leaders and People Team partners around shared outcomes with a bias for action.
Responsibilities
Strategic Partner to Leadership: Serve as a principal strategic advisor to CoreAI senior leadership, helping define the business, organization, leadership, and talent agenda for a broad and complex portfolio.
End-to-end People Strategy: Own and drive an integrated, multi-year people strategy spanning workforce planning, organization design, leadership effectiveness, succession, talent management, rewards, inclusion, culture, and employee experience. Shape organization and operating-model choices at portfolio scale, including leadership structures, decision rights, critical interfaces, spans and layers, and mechanisms that improve accountability, agility, and execution.
Change & Complexity Leadership at Scale: Lead workforce and capability planning for highly competitive and specialized talent, using scenario planning to anticipate future skill needs and inform deployment decisions. Lead significant organizational transformation across multiple teams and disciplines, establishing a clear change strategy, aligning stakeholders, anticipating downstream impacts, and adoption.
Executive Coaching: Coach senior executives and leadership teams on leadership effectiveness, succession, team health, inclusive decision-making, and high-stakes people and organization matters.
Enterprise & COE Partnership: Influence Centers of Excellence and cross-company partners to design and deliver scalable solutions that meet CoreAI’s needs while strengthening enterprise programs, standards, and practices.
Thought Leadership: Elevate People Team capability by setting a high bar for strategic partnership, mentoring and developing People Team professionals, creating operating rhythms, and building an aligned People Team community across the portfolio. Exercise broad judgment and accountability on complex and sensitive matters, balancing business urgency, employee experience, organizational health, risk, and long-term capability.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Master's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 4+ 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 7+ years experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, performance management) OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Master's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 8+ 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 12+ years experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, performance management) OR equivalent experience.
Human Resources Professional Certification (e.g., PHR, SPHR, SHRM, CIPD).
4+ years experience with partnering with wide network of clients and across human resources to deliver effective business solutions.
HR Business Partnership 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:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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