Senior Talent Sourcer, Market Intelligence

We are seeking a strategic and data-driven Senior Talent Sourcer, Market Intelligence to lead advanced sourcing initiatives and talent market analysis across Microsoft's Corporate Functions Talent Acquisition team. This role requires deep expertise in talent intelligence, labor market insights, and competitive intelligence to inform and execute differentiated sourcing strategies that align with business priorities.

The candidate will leverage external and internal data to identify talent pools, assess market feasibility, and uncover competitive trends. You will design and implement sourcing strategies that go beyond traditional methods—using intelligence to anticipate and track talent movement, research competitors and industry trends, and optimize our location strategies.

This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives at the intersection of data, strategy, and execution, and who can translate insights into actionable sourcing plans that give the organization a competitive edge in attracting top talent.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

Responsibilities

• Drives the adoption of the candidate assessment framework and identifies, adopts, and evangelizes best practices that ensure high-quality hires. Ensures adoption and best practices and scalability. Identifies opportunities for process improvement.

• Manages candidate screening framework, and identifies, adopts, and evangelizes best practices that ensure effective, inclusive screening processes and a qualified talent pool. Executes initial screening and assessing of candidates. Influences inclusive selection decisions, and consumption of diverse talent.

• Uses deep knowledge of market 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. Works with talent marketing to create compelling on-brand attraction campaigns. Works with hiring managers to develop a compelling, consistent message on the Microsoft story and the opportunity it represents to prospective talent. Demonstrates ability to identify and present talent to the business as aligned to both the hiring needs and candidates aspirations.

• Shares proven methodologies and partnerships that help others across the discipline to source, recruit, and/or close candidates. Analyzes the quality of the output associated candidate activity using systems and tools and shares with internal stakeholders. Helps develop learning and training resources for others teams in Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) to help advance outcomes and capabilities.

• Coaches the client to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors. Identifies competitive techniques and advantages within our scope for hiring and consults with the business to develop employer value proposition (EVP). Delivers differentiated pitch and provides opportunities to learn how to deliver pitch to candidates based on their unique motivators and knowledge of the Microsoft deal (e.g., compensation, benefits, perks, career development).

• Gathers requirements and develops hiring plans that meet candidate needs throughout the hiring lifecycle, often for critical, complex, high level or high volume candidate searches. Owns the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process. Enhances the candidate experience at all stages of the process by proactively identifying factors that may impact the candidate and partnering with hiring managers/business leaders to develop appropriate acquisition or mitigation strategies. Ensures operational excellence by managing candidates through the application tracking system (ATS).

Data Analysis & Hiring Plans

• Reviews and analyzes business and market data and trends to improve performance, and uses insights to support across teams. Connects data to cross-organization goals and leads conversations across groups to address broad hiring issues and opportunities. Leads the implementa