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At Team Xbox, we aspire to bring the joy and community of gaming to everyone on the planet. We deliver on that vision by putting players at the center, enabling you to play the games you want, with the people you want, anywhere you want.
The Human Resources Director (HRD) is an individual contributor who will partner with leaders across Gaming and is responsible for bringing the full capability of Microsoft to bear in achieving organization excellence, talent strategy, and leadership capability. As the HRD, you will both partner with leaders/leadership teams within Gaming and as part of the HR team, you will have the opportunity to further advance the success of a very dynamic and strategic organization.
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 best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Within HR at Microsoft, our mission is to empower the people who empower the planet. You can help us achieve our mission.
Responsibilities
Organizational Design & Diagnostics
- In partnership with HR leaders and/or business leaders, leads the holistic organizational planning (i.e., talent, structure, culture, process) based on business needs.
- Leverages and adapts system models, uses diagnostics and data to analyze organizational problems, and leads improvements in talent pyramid, talent management processes/programs, employee satisfaction/engagement, and organizational effectiveness of the client organization.
Change Design & Orchestration
- Supports and guides organizational leadership team on their business and culture transformation process.
- Applies understanding of internal and external business drivers to guide the leadership team through ongoing business evolution and changing ways of working.
People Plan & Strategic Talent Management
- Collaborates with business leaders to identify business priorities and provides strategy analysis to understand the implications of strategic choices within and across organizations. Ensures that the people strategies and organizational strategies are effective to achieve desired business outcomes.
- Leads the efforts to identify gaps in the execution of business strategies and consults business leadership on clarifying and executing business strategies as an HR expert. Ensures interventions improve the clarity of business strategies and address the gaps in strategy execution.
- Influences the design and implementation of strategic talent management solutions (e.g., planning, movement, development) in partnership with Talent Management and business leadership.
- Applies knowledge of the future direction of the organization to guide talent assessment and make decisions on talent needs and solutions (e.g., whether to build, buy, or borrow talent).
Leadership & Team Performance
- Provides oversight and insight for the top leaders at Microsoft. Leverages business understanding to connect leadership effectiveness plans with the broader Microsoft ecosystem. Interprets metrics to monitor and ensure leadership performance. Contracts for and provides executive coaching at the most senior levels of the organization to improve leadership capability, resolve leadership gaps, and drive business results. Coaches managers and leaders to facilitate organizational change and model an inclusive environment.
- Designs and manages implementation of interventions that improve leadership and team performance to achieve strategic objectives across business groups. Drives and collaborates with a variety of functions on leadership capability and supports effective leadership team and/or other decision-making bodies on critical issues. Identifies strategies and action plans to transform leaders and teams to embody leadership principles.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications
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10+ years’ work experience with Human Resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, training, performance management)
- OR Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field AND 9+ years of work experience with Human Resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, training, performance management).
Additional or Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field.
- Human Resources Professional Certification (e.g., PHR, SPHR, SHRM).
- 5+ years’ experience with partnering with wide network of clients and across Human Resources to deliver effective business solutions.
The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $148,000 and $222,000.
At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role.
Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.
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.
