HR Director, Microsoft AI

Overview

In this HR Director role within Microsoft AI (MAI), you will lead a fast-growing people function to enable strategic growth and talent excellence. You will act as a trusted advisor to leaders, coordinating HR partners, Recruiting, and Centers of Excellence to deliver integrated people solutions. Operating in an agile, mission-driven environment, you will guide leaders through growth, change, and evolving priorities. You will shape organizational effectiveness and culture at scale, contributing to MAI’s impact across the business.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high-impact HR team delivering people solutions that drive growth and employee success
• Provide strategic change management guidance to leaders to enable agility and execution
• Influence leaders to build high-performing teams and a culture of accountability and continuous improvement
• Assess organizational health and operating rhythms to identify opportunities to improve performance
• Partner with leaders to design org structures, workforce strategies, and operating models
• Anticipate risks and propose solutions to strengthen execution and employee experience
• Lead strategic talent planning, align hiring, succession, and investments with business objectives
• Collaborate with Talent Management and Recruiting to close capability gaps and build pipelines
• Leverage data and workforce insights to address talent risks and retention
• Drive complex people initiatives and enterprise programs across HR to meet MAI needs
• Gather and act on employee feedback and workforce trends to improve culture and inclusion
• Embody Microsoft values and foster an inclusive workplace

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field and extensive HR experience OR equivalent experience
• Demonstrable people management experience
• Experience influencing executives and leading through ambiguity in fast-paced environments
• Experience partnering with technical, product, engineering, or AI-focused organizations
• Proven success leading high-performing HR teams
• Ability to work from the London office three days per week

• leadership and people development
• influence and stakeholder management
• change management
• HR analytics and workforce insights
• talent planning and succession
• organizational design and operating models

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