Shape the Future of Talent at Microsoft

Shape the Future of the Talent Platform

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.

Product Strategy & Platform Evolution

• Define and drive the FY27 and beyond Talent Platform vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Partner closely with engineering and Employee Experience teams to prioritize investments, deliver capabilities, and continuously improve the platform experience.
• Translate insights gathered through customer listening, user engagement, and design-thinking approaches into scalable, impactful solutions.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen connectivity across talent, rewards, skills, and HR systems to create a more seamless and integrated employee experience.
• Expand the platform's reach by enabling new talent use cases and innovative ways to support workforce growth and mobility.
• Maintain strong governance practices, including role-based access, permission management, and platform compliance processes.

Drive Adoption, Readiness & Organizational Change

Success is not only about building great capabilities. It is about creating experiences that people embrace and use every day.

• Champion enterprise-wide adoption of the Talent Platform through strong partnerships with HR Business Partners, Talent Managers, and other key stakeholders.
• Foster and support a community of platform champions who help amplify best practices and drive engagement.
• Lead readiness, enablement, and communication efforts that help individuals and teams confidently adopt new capabilities.
• Create user guidance, resources, and tools that embed the platform into everyday talent workflows.
• Ensure successful introduction and adoption of emerging capabilities, including AI-powered and agentic experiences.

Advance Data, Insights & AI Innovation

Data and AI are transforming how organizations understand, develop, and grow talent. This role will help shape that transformation.

• Lead the Talent Platform data and insights strategy, translating business needs into actionable reporting, analytics, and decision-making support.
• Partner with engineering and People Analytics teams to design data foundations that enable advanced AI and agentic experiences.
• Define and evolve dashboards, metrics, and reporting frameworks that measure platform effectiveness and business impact.
• Collaborate with technical partners to shape AI-powered solutions that improve user experiences and talent outcomes.
• Use data-driven insights to identify opportunities, uncover trends, and continuously enhance platform value.

Enable Enterprise-Wide Talent Connectivity

This role will serve as a connector across teams, initiatives, and systems to create a more unified talent ecosystem.

• Partner across Skills, Rewards, HRBI, MCH, and other organizations to strengthen data consistency and interoperability.
• Align Talent Platform priorities with broader enterprise talent and people strategies.
• Identify opportunities to improve how talent information is connected, shared, and leveraged to support business decisions.

Serve as a Trusted Talent Advisor

You will bring a consultative mindset, helping stakeholders navigate complex talent opportunities and challenges.

• Provide thought leadership and expertise on Talent Platform capabilities, use cases, and best practices.
• Partner with stakeholders across disciplines to solve business challenges and drive talent outcomes.
• Use data, insights, and storytelling to influence decisions, build alignment, and accelerate adoption of solutions.

Deliver Meaningful Measurement & Impact

You will help ensure that investments in talent technology and programs create measurable value.

• Define success measures, objectives, and outcomes that evaluate platform adoption, experience, sentiment, and business impact.
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to identify trends, surface insights, and support informed decision-making.
• Recommend proactive solutions that improve experiences, strengthen outcomes, and enable continuous improvement.
• Partner with stakeholders to establish accountability and ensure progress toward business goals.

Our Culture & Values

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:

• Demonstrating a Growth Mindset through curiosity, continuous learning, and openness to feedback.
• Creating an environment of inclusion, respect, and belonging where diverse perspectives are valued and heard.
• Building trusted relationships through collaboration, empathy, and transparency.
• Taking ownership, driving clarity, and helping others succeed during times of change and uncertainty.
• Leveraging data and technology responsibly to deliver meaningful outcomes for employees and the business.
• Leading with integrity and ensuring decisions are aligned with Microsoft's values and commitment to empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

Required/minimum qualifications

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.