Director Talent Management
MicrosoftAbout the role
Why Microsoft CoreAI — and Why This Role Matters
The success of Microsoft CoreAI depends not only on world‑class technology, but on exceptional engineering leadership, deep technical talent, and the ability to scale capability faster than the threat landscape evolves. Talent density, leadership readiness, and the ability to move and grow critical skills at pace are strategic imperatives.
This role sits at the heart of that challenge.
As Director ofCoreAITalent Management, you will partner directly with the EVP of Microsoft CoreAI and senior Engineering leaders to architect and govern the talent systems that enable sustained leadership excellence, technical depth, and long‑term organizational resilience. This is a rare opportunity to shape how one of Microsoft’s most visible and consequential businesses builds its future leadership bench—at scale, with enterprise impact.
Role Overview
The Talent Management Director architects and governs Microsoft’s CoreAI Talent Management strategy to enable leadership excellence and build a future‑ready engineering organization.
Operating at the intersection of strategy, innovation, execution, and leadership development, this role ensures high‑impact talent decisions that directly support business performance, outcomes, and long‑term competitive advantage.
As a strategic partner to the EVP of CoreAI, senior Engineering leaders, and Human Resources leadership, this role setstalent direction, establishes decision frameworks, and enables leaders to grow, move, and retain talent at scale. This leader serves as a catalyst for Microsoft’s future‑ready talent model—shaping how talent is identified, developed, deployed, and sustained across a complex, global engineering ecosystem.
Responsibilities
1. Enterprise Talent Strategy & Outcomes
Define and govern Talent Management strategy for Microsoft CoreAI, ensuring alignment with business priorities, growth plans, and future capability needs.
Establish enterprise decision frameworks and guardrails for succession, talent movement, leadership development, and readiness—enabling consistent, high‑quality talent decisions across CoreAI and Engineering.
Translate business strategy into measurable talent outcomes, shifting focus from process execution to decision quality, bench strength, and leadership readiness.
Ensure talent investments directly support engineering productivity, scale, and long‑term sustainability in a rapidly evolving threat environment.
2. Program Architecture, Governance & Execution Through Others
Own the design, evolution, and governance of core talent programs (succession, leadership development, talent movement, moving beyond implementation to enterprise activation and scale.
Set clear success measures, decision rights, and operating expectations; hold delivery teams and partners accountable for outcomes.
Enable execution through Centers of Excellence, HR Business Partners, and business leaders—rather than directly managing delivery.
Ensure integration across Talent, Learning, and Organizational Development ecosystems while preventing fragmentation or duplicative effort.
3. Strategic Consulting, Influence & Storytelling
Serve as a trusted advisor to the EVP of CoreAI and senior Engineering leadership, influencing critical talent decisions with data‑driven insights and enterprise perspective.
Represent Microsoft’s long‑term interests by balancing immediate business needs with sustained leadership and capability health.
Communicate talent strategies and implications clearly at the executive level—translating complexity into
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