If you are an experienced talent acquisition professional focused on the executive level, this is your chance tomakea significant impact on the future of Microsoft as part of aleading-edgeexecutive recruiting team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to attract, assess and secure executive talent from all industries around the world. The role will focus on all facets of executive recruiting with a heavy emphasis on engineering and the technical market overall.
We are looking for a well-connected and intellectually curious individual who can drive and own the recruiting efforts of senior external talent for Microsoft. This position encompasses all stages of the hiring process including partnering with client stakeholders, other talent acquisition professionals, and HR business partners on succession planning, position strategy and candidate requirements, as well as developing sourcing strategies to target and assess top executive talent and negotiating and closing offers. Ability to build internal and external networks is key, along with a solid foundation of executive recruiting skills and experience.This role will also be accountable for driving and maintaining a competitor strategy for executive talent acquisition at Microsoft, to ensure that we identify, target, and engage with the top talent in today's technical marketplace.
Responsibilities
Candidate Assessment and Screening
Assessment Opportunities - You manage the candidate assessment framework and identify, adopt, and evangelize best practices that ensure high-quality hires; you identify opportunities for improvement and lead the creation of assessment materials by identifying relevant competencies and job criteria.
Screening - You manage the candidate screening framework, and identify, adopt, and evangelize best practices that ensure effective screening processes and a qualified talent pool.
Candidate Attraction
Candidate Engagement - You use deep knowledge of competitor opportunities to differentiate Microsoft's unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards and leverage a consistent, compelling message that conveys the most significant motivators to prospective candidates.
Internal Practices - You share proven stories that help others across the discipline to source, recruit, and/or close candidates; you track candidate activity and share with internal stakeholders.
Microsoft Representation - You coach the client to represent Microsoft's unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors.
Candidate Experience
Data Analysis and Hiring Plans
Operational Compliance and Excellence
Policy and Standards Compliance - You lead the optimization of staffing policies, systems, and processes throughout your organization, and guide stakeholders on the impact of these changes.
Technical Documentation - You maintain current documentation on candidates' qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines (e.g., Office of Federal Compliance Programs, General Data Protection Regulation); you capture relevant data in recruiting platform and leverage data to inform meaningful insights.
Stakeholder/Client Engagement
Business Impact Knowledge - You apply deep knowledge of factors relevant to the business and hiring managers' needs (e.g., time to hire, location, budget) and use this knowledge to guide the development of end-to-end hiring plans aligned to the needs of the business group, division, region, or subsidiary.
Strategic Thinking - You use data and metrics, and an understanding of the long-term business requirements, to advise a division, set of countries, or subsidiary on the implications of talent gaps; you lead the development of staffing processes and strategies.
Talent Engagement - You consult a division, region, or subsidiary on critical talent needs and opportunities; you present and frame information in a way that speaks to the business needs and influences leaders to embrace differentiated and alternative types of talent (e.g., compete, diverse, nontraditional) that may not be typically considered.
Talent Sourcing
Candidate Relationship Management - You leverage long-term relationships with talent pools and communities across the industry; you develop a comprehensive approach that integrates multiple concepts (e.g. community building, business intelligence) to create an innovative sourcing strategy for a division, set of countries, or subsidiaries.
Developing a Talent Pool - You share candidates across teams, and you are responsible for developing and implementing strategies to generate and meet targets for differentiated talent for a division, set of countries, or subsidiaries.
Specialty Responsibilities
Market Analysis and Channel Insights - You perform deep analysis of external market data leveraging industry/market expertise, andprovide market and channel insights to the business to recommend and drive hiring plans and talent acquisition initiatives; you develop sourcing strategy using market and channel insights. *Applies only for employees in Sourcing
Stakeholder/Client Engagement - You bring critical or high level candidates through the interview and closing process, and ensure candidate needs (e.g., onboarding, relocation, Visas, critical dependencies) are met; you close candidates by anticipating and responding to objections from the business while maintaining fiscal responsibility; you negotiate appropriately with the client to drive solutions that balance their short- and long-term talent needs. *Applies only for employees in Client Aligned Recruiting
Stakeholder/Client Engagement - You identify current and future talent needs through opportunistic exploratory and analysis of market demands, and pro-actively consult leaders to create new roles that bring in desired talent. *Applies only for employees in Client Aligned Recruiting
Workforce Analysis - You assess and define talent/diversity gaps and hiring needs (e.g., skills, volume of hires) of a division, set of countries, or subsidiary; you present this information to hiring managers, and recommend and drive hiring plans and talent acquisition initiatives to meet needs. *Applies only for employees in Client Aligned Recruiting
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
8+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), human resources experience, or industry experience related to role
OR Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), human resources experience, or industry experience related to role.
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
LinkedIn Certification
Executive Recruiting experience
Deep passion for technology
Strong knowledge of competitive landscape in the US. Global market knowledge is a strong plus
Understanding of executive compensation structures and challenges, including the ability to analyze compensation packages and propose appropriately competitive offers.
Strong process/systems management, interpersonal, organizational, written, negotiation and presentation skills.
Exceptional communications skills and relationship management capabilities.
Expertise in the following areas: Strategic Insight, Influencing for Impact, Judgment, Cross Boundary Collaboration, Negotiation, and Systems Thinking
Advanced skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and candidate tracking systems
The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $119,200 and $194,800.
At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.
Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to health-care benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.