Senior Recruiter, Technology & Research

Full Job Description

Do you enjoy big challenges, working with and learning from a high-performance team? Do you want to be able to make a difference? Come work with us on the Global Talent Acquisition Team at Microsoft!

If you are a talent acquisition professional, this is your chance to make a significant impact on the future of Microsoft as part of our Engineering Talent Acquisition team. As a Senior Recruiter, Technology & Research, you’ll be working with hiring managers and leaders to attract, engage and hire the best AI talent for Microsoft. Your stakeholder management skills, superior candidate engagement skills and passion for strategic recruiting will ensure your success in this cutting-edge technology business. The opportunities stretch beyond hands-on recruiting, to strategic hiring plans, coaching leaders to be the very best in the industry at hiring, mentoring others and driving impact across the Microsoft Security space. Come join an organization focused on high impact work, excellent business partnership, teamwork, and collaboration!

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their authentic selves each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission by representing Microsoft in today’s competitive talent market as we search for the nation’s top talent.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder/Client Engagement

• Uses data and metrics, and an understanding of the long-term business requirements, to advise the business leaders on the implications of talent gaps. Leads the development of staffing processes and strategies.
• Consults the 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.

Data Analysis & Hiring Plans

• Analyzes relevant data and trends to provide insight and set plans to meet hiring goals. Connects data to cross-organization goals and leads conversations across groups to address broad hiring issues. Leads the implementation of a hiring plan for complex organizations, areas, or talent pools that addresses both business demand and availability of talent for both short-term and long-term needs (12 months and beyond).

Candidate Attraction

• Uses deep knowledge of competitor opportunities in the AI space 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.
• Shares proven stories that help others across the discipline to source, recruit, and/or close candidates. Tracks candidate activity and shares with internal stakeholders.

Candidate Experience

• Owns the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process. Enhances the candidate experience at all phases of the relationship by proactively identifying factors that may adversely impact the candidate and partnering with business leaders to develop mitigation strategies.

Talent Sourcing

• Strategic AI Talent Sourcing through intentional networking
• Solid understanding of the competitor landscape and continually updating themselves of the growing market in AI products and services.
• Leverages long-term relationships with AI talent pools and communities across the industry. Develops a comprehensive approach that integrates multiple concepts (e.g. community building, business intelligence) to create an innovative sourcing strategy for this team.

Candidate Assessment & Screening

• Manages the candidate assessment framework and identifies, adopts, and evangelizes best practices that ensure high-quality hires. Identifies opportunities for improvement and leads the creation of assessment materials by identifying relevant competencies and job criteria.

Operational Compliance & Excellence

• Leads the optimization of staffing policies, systems, and processes throughout his or her organization, and guides stakeholders on the impact of these changes.
• Maintains 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). Captures relevant data in recruiting platform and leverages data to inform meaningful insights.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), or industry experience related to role
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, Liberal Arts, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field AND 5+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role.
• 2+ years full-cycle recruiting experience with sourcing and hiring AI/Researcher/Scientist profiles

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• LinkedIn Certification.

Talent Acquisition IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $101,200 - $194,800 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 $130,000 - $213,200 per year.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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