Our team is looking for a Senior Talent Manager - Talent Platform. In this role, you will help define how Microsoft identifies, develops, and grows talent at scale. As the leader of the Talent Platform strategy and roadmap, you will drive the evolution, adoption, and impact of one of Microsoft's most important talent capabilities, enabling better experiences and outcomes for employees, managers, HR partners, and business leaders around the world.
You will guide the platform's vision through FY27 and beyond, ensuring it delivers meaningful business value through thoughtful governance, scalable adoption, and seamless integration across our talent ecosystem, HR technologies, and data platforms.
Working at the intersection of talent strategy, product leadership, data, and AI, you will collaborate with Talent Managers, HR Business Partners, engineering teams, and other key stakeholders to reimagine how talent decisions are made and supported. You will play an important role in shaping the next generation of talent experiences, including emerging agentic and AI-powered capabilities that help people and organizations thrive.
This is a unique opportunity to influence both strategy and execution by combining customer-focused thinking, data-informed decision making, and cross-functional partnership. You'll help translate complex challenges into innovative solutions that create lasting impact across Microsoft.
Successful candidates are energized by bringing people together around a shared vision, leading change in dynamic environments, and turning insights into action. They bring experience driving HR products, platforms, programs, or transformational initiatives, using data to improve outcomes, and partnering across disciplines to deliver results. Familiarity with HR technology, data ecosystems, and enterprise-scale change efforts will help you accelerate impact and contribute to the continued evolution of Microsoft's talent landscape.
This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of talent at Microsoft.
You will influence enterprise-wide talent strategy, partner with leaders across the company, pioneer AI-powered talent experiences, and help build the systems that empower people to grow, thrive, and achieve their potential. If you are energized by innovation, collaboration, data, and creating meaningful impact at scale, this role offers the opportunity to leave a lasting mark on how Microsoft develops and invests in its people.
If you're excited about creating the future of talent management through technology, AI, collaboration, and innovation, we'd love to hear from you.
As the Talent Platform lead, you will play a pivotal role in defining how Microsoft enables talent growth, development, and decision-making at scale. You will help create the future of talent experiences by bringing together technology, data, AI, and talent strategy to drive meaningful outcomes for employees, managers, and business leaders worldwide.
Success is not only about building great capabilities. It is about creating experiences that people embrace and use every day.
Data and AI are transforming how organizations understand, develop, and grow talent. This role will help shape that transformation.
This role will serve as a connector across teams, initiatives, and systems to create a more unified talent ecosystem.
You will bring a consultative mindset, helping stakeholders navigate complex talent opportunities and challenges.
You will help ensure that investments in talent technology and programs create measurable value.
At Microsoft, how we achieve results is just as important as the results themselves.
We are looking for someone who embraces and models our culture by:
Talent Management IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $106,400 - $203,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $137,600 - $222,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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