Job Details
Posted date: Sep 04, 2025
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Category: Human Resources
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $217,250
Range: $130,900 - $303,600
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: People Manager
Description
We are hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager to join our Global Talent Acquisition Team! As a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager supporting CoreAI, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI innovation at Microsoft. CoreAI is building the infrastructure and agentic frameworks that power next-generation developer experiences, and recruiting is a top priority for its leadership. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to support a team of recruiters hiring talent across systems engineering, AI science, and agent-native development. This role demands creativity, precision, and a deep understanding of the competitive landscape, as you’ll help define differentiated sourcing strategies, refine hiring bar calibration, and support storytelling that resonates with candidates from top global AI programs and industry-leading companies.We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and pays unwavering attention to detail. The candidate is self-motivated and can adapt to ambiguity and can demonstrate success in agile ways of working. If you can make informed decisions, remove roadblocks, and collaborate across senior leaders to meet objectives, we invite you to join us.
This leader will empower a team of recruiters to accelerate the growth of the CoreAI division through the talent we identify and recruit. They will forge deep partnerships and collaborate with business leaders to drive recruitment initiatives. We are looking for someone who isn’t afraid to fail fast, leads with care, and gets energy from coaching, developing, and contributing towards the success of others.
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.
People Management
Managers deliver success through empowerment and accountability by modeling, coaching, and caring. Model - Live our culture; Embody our values; Practice our leadership principles. Coach - Define team objectives and outcomes; Enable success across boundaries; Help the team adapt and learn. Care - Attract and retain people; Know each individual’s capabilities and aspirations; Invest in the growth of others.
Stakeholder/Client Engagement
Uses data and metrics, and an understanding of the long-term business requirements, to advise a division, set of countries, or subsidiary on the implications of talent gaps. Leads the development of staffing processes and strategies. Consults business leaders 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.
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. Coaches the client to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors.
Operational Compliance & Excellence
Leads the optimization of staffing policies, systems, and processes throughout their organization, and guides stakeholders on the impact of these changes. Holds their team accountable for maintaining 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). Drives team to capture relevant data in recruiting platform and monitors and oversees quality of data capture.
Other
Embody our culture and values
Qualifications
Required QualificationsBachelor's Degree AND 8+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role OR equivalent experience. 2+ years of AI recruiting and/or sourcing experience. 3+ years formal management experience (i.e. coaching and mentoring, contributing to the success of others, maximizing collective team impact, etc).
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree AND 15+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role OR Master's Degree AND 12+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role OR equivalent experience.5+ years people management experience
Talent Acquisition M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $130,900 - $277,200 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 $165,600 - $303,600 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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 25, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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