Senior HR Business Partner

Company: Microsoft
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you drive strategic HR partnerships for Microsoft Frontier Co.’s Forward Deployed Engineering Studios, shaping talent strategy and organizational design to deliver customer-defined AI outcomes. You will connect people decisions to studio capacity, delivery quality, and cost-to-serve, while scaling world-class engineering teams. You will move fast, build scalable solutions, and work cross-functionally to transform how engineers and AI agents collaborate.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic HR guidance to senior leaders to enable growth and transformation
  • Assess organizational health and operating rhythms to improve performance
  • Design structures, workforce strategies, and operating models for agility
  • Lead strategic talent planning, including hiring, succession, and talent investments
  • Partner with Talent Management and Recruiting to close capability gaps
  • Use data and workforce insights to manage talent risks and retention
  • Redesign roles and teams to optimize collaboration between engineers and AI agents
  • Build, test, and scale HR solutions alongside studios rather than just advising them

Key requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field plus HR experience or equivalent experience
  • Experience as a strategic HRBP supporting senior leaders or equivalent
  • Experience partnering with a broad client network and HR teams to deliver business solutions
  • Experience with large-scale change management
  • Collaboration
  • Influence and stakeholder management
  • Business acumen
  • HR analytics and data-driven decision making
  • Workforce planning and talent management
  • Organizational design and operating model design

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Posted: October 22nd, 2026