Global Executive Talent Acquisition Director (Client Aligned)

Are you passionate about finding and hiring the best executive level talent for Microsoft? Do you have the skills and experience to partner with executive leaders across the company? If so, you might be the ideal candidate to join our global executive talent acquisition team to work with the executive leader population within Microsoft.  

This position is dedicated to Microsoft’s top‑tier executive and succession priorities, where searches require elevated confidentiality, careful market signaling, and rigorous governance. The successful candidate will be trusted to engage senior stakeholders as a strategic advisor while preserving privacy, sensitivity, and brand stewardship throughout the process. 

You will apply your deep business and industry acumen to develop and implement long-term, cross-company executive recruiting strategies focused on critical, technical, corporate and commercial leadership talent gaps. You will also collaborate with HR and business leaders, to ensure a seamless and positive candidate experience throughout the hiring lifecycle. 

Our executive recruiting practices are biased toward long-term relationship building, succession planning and proactive engagements.  We seek an individual with expertise in these types of practices and experience in Artificial Intelligence hiring is particularly beneficial.  This is an individual contributor role.

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.

Stakeholder Engagement 

• Uses data and metrics, and an understanding of the long-term business requirements, to advise on the implications of talent gaps.  

• Applies deep knowledge of factors relevant to the business and hiring managers' needs and uses this knowledge to guide the development of end-to-end executive hiring plans. 

• Consults on critical talent needs and opportunities. Presents and frames information to influences leaders to embrace broadest range of talent for consideration.

Data Analysis 

• Analyzes relevant data and trends to provide insight to inform executive hiring conversations.   

• Leads executive hiring projects for complex organizations, areas, or talent pools that address both business demand and availability of talent for short-term and long-term needs. 

Candidate Attraction 

• Uses deep knowledge of competitor opportunities to differentiate Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards and leverages a consistent, compelling message to prospective executive candidates. 

• Uses storytelling to help others across the discipline to attract and hire candidates.  

• Coaches’ senior leaders to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors. 

• Develops bespoke outreach and engagement approaches appropriate for high‑visibility executives, ensuring privacy, trust, and brand stewardship at every touchpoint. 

Candidate Experience  

• Leverages long-term relationships with communities across all relevant industries.  

• Takes an always-on approach to using all networking tactics to talent scout for Microsoft. 

• Manages the candidate assessment framework and identifies, adopts, and evangelizes best practices.  

• Enhances the candidate experience by proactively identifying factors that may adversely impact on the candidate and develop mitigation strategies. 

• Proven executive presence and communication capability with the ability to influence at the most senior levels through data, narrative, and principled decision-making. 

• Leads highly confidential executive engagements with disciplined ‘need‑to‑know’ communication, ensuring