Senior Human Resources Business Partner, AI Squads

Overview
Microsoft AI's Mission is to use AI responsibly to make everyone more informed, capable, and supported.  We are creating unique, beautiful and powerful products that will change lives.  We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI era. It's a time of huge change in the AI landscape, and this role will put you right in the heart of it.

We are seeking a highly motivated agile Senior Human Resources (HR) Business Partner to lead the Microsoft AI Humanist Super Intelligence Lab HR squad.  We're looking for someone with an abundance of positive energy, empathy, and kindness, in addition to thriving in a fast-paced environment.  The successful candidate excels at multitasking and pays unwavering attention to detail.  You are self-motivated and can adapt to ambiguity and can demonstrate success in agile ways of working. If you can make informed decisions, remove roadblocks, collaborate across executive office staff to meet objectives, along with thrive in this environment, we invite you to join us.

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in architecting, developing, and executing the HR work across the employee, DRI and manager life cycle for the Copilot and AI teams.  This role requires creativity and adaptability to deliver high performance with an integrated approach across Microsoft HR.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute across various people solutions across the employee, DRI and manager life cycle, including but limited to:
• Talent Movement:  Design and run the squad talent movement approach, resulting in the squads being resourced with the necessary capabilities.  Put in place the required constructs to enable the movement of resources.
• Culture:  Establish ways to embed self-organized squads whereby team charters, ways of working, feedback loops and recognition are empowered motions within the squad, under the guidance of DRIs and relevant leaders. Support the building of feedback culture within the teams so all team members are coached and supported to adopt the best of high-performance practices.
• Development: Work with employees, DRIs and managers to develop an approach to feedback and development to support high performance and career development.
• Onboarding:  Create a high touch onboarding approach to accelerate employees experiences and readiness to be successful at Microsoft.
• Performance:  Ensure that we have a process for ensuring that individual performance within a squad is captured and shared with their direct manager. Determine how to evaluate impact and individual performance within a squad that is fed into their manager for coaching and impact discussions and talent movement once the cycle is over.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with Human Resources processes or related (e.g., hiring, training, performance management) OR Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field AND demonstrable work experience with Human Resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, training, performance management).

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
• Human Resources Professional Certification (e.g., PHR, SPHR, SHRM).
• 3+ years experience with partnering with wide network of clients and across Human Resources to deliver effective business solutions.

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
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