Microsoft

Director, HR Consulting - Engineering & Gaming

Microsoft • $130K — $277K *
Redmond, WA 98052In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 9+ years of HR or business experience OR Master's Degree with 6+ years of HR or business experience.
  • 3+ years of people management experience.
  • 15+ years in HR consulting or related roles.
  • 3+ years leading consulting teams or people managers.
  • 5+ years of experience in employee relations across multi-country environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and develop an HR Consulting team through significant transformation.
  • Establish clear priorities for consulting quality and outcomes.
  • Coach the team to deliver effective HR consulting to business leaders.
  • Identify and translate trends into actionable insights for decision-making.
  • Partner with HR Business Partners to implement HR programs.
  • Ensure alignment with global priorities while remaining adaptable to local needs.
  • Contribute to the design of HR projects considering feasibility and impact.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for continuous learning and development.
  • Access to AI-enabled HR solutions.
  • Collaborative and inclusive team environment.
  • Support for employee growth and aspirations.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
People Leadership & Talent Stewardship
  • Leads and develops an HR Consulting team through significant transformation, ensuring the organization is equipped to address complex and business-critical people matters.
  • Establishes clear priorities and expectations for consulting quality, decision-making, and outcomes while providing guidance and support across the team's work.
  • Coaches and enables the team to deliver effective, insight-driven consulting to business leaders, including advisory support, organizational health assessments, and capability-building conversations.
  • Guides the team in identifying trends and insights across cases and engagements, translating them into clear narratives and recommendations that support business and HR decision-making.
  • Supports the team's partnerships with HR Business Partners and Centers of Excellence to implement and scale enterprise HR programs, processes, and initiatives.
  • Ensures alignment to global priorities while enabling flexibility to meet regional and business-specific needs.
  • Provides input on the identification, design, and implementation of HR projects and programs, including consideration of change impact, timing, and feasibility.
  • Supports talent and capability growth across the HR Consulting organization by identifying development opportunities, enabling learning experiences, and fostering continuous learning.
  • Models Microsoft's culture and leadership principles through integrity, inclusion, accountability, and care, while supporting employee growth, development, aspirations, and career progression.
Employee Relations & Workplace Integrity
  • Provides leadership and oversight for complex, business-critical employee relations matters across Engineering and Gaming.
  • Establishes effective escalation and partnership approaches, ensuring issues are addressed consistently, thoughtfully, and within agreed timelines.
  • Partners with Workplace Investigations, Global Employee Relations, Legal (CELA), Security, and Communications on sensitive matters, including leading investigations where appropriate.
  • Designs and champions solutions that foster an open, inclusive, and values-based workplace while balancing immediate needs with longer-term organizational considerations.
  • Serves as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders on workforce trends, external labor environments, and evolving employee expectations, helping inform policy and practice.
HR Programs, Projects & Operating Model Excellence
  • Leads HRC's partnership with HRBP and COEs to implement and continuously improve enterprise HR programs and cycles (e.g., Rhythm of Business, performance and development, manager excellence communities).
  • Promotes strong process stewardship, clear ownership, and effective execution while identifying insights and opportunities for continuous improvement.
  • Contributes to the design and implementation of global and regional HR initiatives by providing input on timing, feasibility, risks, and change impact.
  • Advances simplification, consistency, and effectiveness across HR Consulting ways of working.
HR Solutions Consulting & Insights
  • Sets the consulting strategy, aligning HRC services to business priorities and anticipating future needs driven by market, regulatory, and organizational changes.
  • Supports the team in delivering high-quality consulting to business leaders on HR programs, processes, and organizational health.
  • Synthesizes trends and insights across the region to inform organizational design, HR strategy, and prioritization.
  • Partners with regional HR leadership to provide a comprehensive view of organizational health, opportunities, and considerations that support informed decision-making.
AI, Digitalization & Continuous Improvement
  • Drives adoption of AI-enabled, digital, and automated HR consulting solutions to improve scale, consistency, and impact across the organization.
  • Promotes continuous improvement by simplifying processes, reducing operational friction, and supporting data-informed decision-making across HR consulting, employee relations, and manager support.
  • Partners with HR COEs, Product, Digital HR, and Analytics teams to leverage listening systems, insights, and automation to anticipate needs, identify trends, and shape proactive interventions.
  • Builds team capability and confidence in the responsible use of AI and digital tools to enhance coaching, consulting quality, and organizational effectiveness.
  • Ensures AI and digital innovation remain human-centered, ethical, and compliant while strengthening the employee and manager experience.
Other
  • Contribute to a positive, collaborative, and inclusive team environment.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning, growth, and innovation.
  • Embody Microsoft's culture and values in interactions, decision-making, and daily work.


Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 9+ years experience with human resources or business programs/processes OR Master's Degree AND 6+ years experience with human resources or business programs/processes OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years people management or equivalent experience


Additional or preferred qualifications
  • 15+ years HR consulting/HRBP/People Consulting experience
  • 3+ years leading people managers or consulting teams
  • 5+ years employee relations experience in complex, multi-country environments
  • Experience advising senior business leaders and partnering across HR COEs, HRBPs, CELA, and Employee Relations functions.


HR Consulting 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

About Microsoft

Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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Learn more about Microsoft
Size
181,000 employees
Market Cap
$1,762.4 billion
Industry
Enterprise Technology
Net Income
$51.3 billion
Founded
1975
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$153.2 billion
NASDAQ
MSFT
* Ladders Estimates

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