Senior Recruiter, Corporate Functions

If you are a well-connected and intellectually curious talent acquisition professional, this is your chance to make a significant impact on the future of Microsoft as part of our Corporate Functions team.

The Corporate Functions Talent Acquisition team works across Corporate External & Legal Affairs (CELA), HR, Operations & Continuous Improvement Group, and Finance. As a Senior Recruiter, Corporate Functions, you'll be focused on hiring top talent for our Corporate Functions organization with primary focus on CELA and the newly created Operations and Continuous Improvement organizations.  You’ll be working with leaders and hiring managers to attract, engage and hire the very brightest minds in the industry. Your stakeholder management skills, candidate engagement skills and passion for recruiting will ensure your success in our rapidly evolving business. The opportunities stretch beyond hands-on recruiting, to talent and market insights, strategic projects, coaching leaders to shine in the industry at hiring, mentoring others and driving impact across talent acquisition and our businesses. Come join an organization focused on high impact work, effective business partnership, teamwork, and collaboration! 

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their authentic selves each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission by representing Microsoft in today’s dynamic talent market as we search for the nation’s top talent.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder/Client Engagement

• Uses data and metrics, and an understanding of the long-term business requirements, to advise  on the implications of talent gaps. Leads the development of recruiting processes and strategies.
• Applies deep knowledge of factors relevant to the business and hiring managers' needs (e.g., time to hire, location, budget) and uses this knowledge to guide the development of end-to-end hiring plans aligned to the needs of the business group.
• Consults  on critical talent needs and opportunities. Presents and frames 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.

Data Analysis & Hiring Plans

• Analyzes relevant data and trends to provide insight and set plans to meet hiring goals. Connects data to cross-organization goals and leads conversations across groups to address broad hiring issues. Leads the implementation of a hiring plan for complex organizations or talent pools that addresses both business demand and availability of talent for short-term and long-term needs (12 months and beyond).

Candidate Attraction

• Uses 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.
• Shares proven stories that help others across the discipline to source, recruit, and/or close candidates. Tracks candidate activity and shares with internal stakeholders.
• Coaches the client to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors.

Candidate Experience

• Gathers requirements and develops hiring plans that meet candidate needs throughout the hiring lifecycle, often for critical, complex, high level candidate searches.
• Owns the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process. Enhances the candidate experience at all phases of the relationship by proactively identifying factors that may adversely impact the candidate and partnering with business leaders to develop mitigation strategies

Operational Compliance & Excellence

• Leads the optimization of policies, systems, and processes throughout the organization, and guides stakeholders on the impact of these changes.
• Maintains 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). Captures relevan