Microsoft

Senior Agile HR Business Partner

Microsoft$106K — $203K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field and 4+ years of HR experience, or equivalent.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field and 7+ years of HR experience, or equivalent.
  • Human Resources Professional Certification (e.g., PHR, SPHR, SHRM, CIPD).
  • 4+ years experience partnering with a wide network of clients across HR to deliver effective solutions.
  • Experience managing large scale change initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Consult strategically with leaders using insights, storytelling, and change management to enhance organizational outcomes.
  • Collaborate with HR peers to analyze data and recommend improvements leveraging talent management processes.
  • Drive talent and leadership capability development through structured initiatives.
  • Utilize data and diagnostics to inform HR strategy and measure outcomes for continual improvement.
  • Leverage AI tools to streamline HR processes and enhance decision-making.
  • Lead cross-functional projects from inception to implementation to deliver sustainable HR solutions.
  • Apply technical knowledge to improve productivity tools and innovative HR solutions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs.
  • Flexible work arrangements promoting work-life balance.
  • Professional development opportunities including certifications and training.
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and resources for innovative HR practices.
Full Job Description
Overview

We are hiring a Senior Agile HR Business Partner to support our C+AI organization. Within Cloud + AI (C+AI), our Human Resources (HR) organization plays a pivotal role in enabling this mission by shaping the future of how we lead, grow, and transform.

In line with this, we are seeking a Human Resources Business Parter (HRBP) to join our new pooled Agile HRBP team-the strategic engine of agility within the C+AI HR organization. This role will have the opportunity to work on strategic initiatives for one of Microsoft's most transformative business groups, helping evolve how we deliver HR partnership at scale and with speed, consistency, and innovation.

Strength in building trusted relationships with leaders and the ability to leverage those relationships to diagnose and coach leaders on team, organization, and their own effectiveness is essential for this role. Experience in program and project management to ensure delivery of client-ready solutions - including initiatives geared at leadership effectiveness and manager capability and excellence is also critical for this position.

Responsibilities
  • Strategic Consulting: Combine insights, strong stakeholder relationships, clear storytelling, AI fluency, and change management to build alignment, influence decisions, and deliver sustainable organizational outcomes that enable agility, growth, and innovation.
    • Organizational Diagnostics: Partner and consult with peer HR disciplines (e.g., Talent Management, Organization Development, HRBI) on leveraging the systems model, talent management processes/programs and interpreting results & data to build recommendations

    • Talent & Capability Development: Support initiatives that build future-ready capabilities, including succession planning, talent deployment, and leadership development.

    • Data-Driven Insights: Use data, diagnostics, and cross-business insight to inform strategy, measure impact, and deliver equitable, scalable (where applicable) HR solutions that continuously improve how we work

    • AI-Enabled HR: Leverage AI tools and insights to enhance decision-making, streamline processes, and deliver repeatable solutions

    • Project Management: Partner with peers in the Agile HRBP team, business aligned HRBPs, CoEs, and business leaders to identify key strategic priorities and create long term sustainable solutions. Lead projects from inception to successful implementation

    • Technical Solutions: Leverage an understanding of technical solutions and productivity tools to develop and enhance innovative solutions that drive efficiency in ways of working.

    Other
    • Embody our culture and values


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 4+ years experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, training, performance management)
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 7+ years experience in experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, performance management)
    • OR equivalent experience.


Additional or preferred qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 8+ years experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, training, performance management)
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources, or related field AND 12+ years experience in human resources or related processes (e.g., hiring, performance management)
    • OR equivalent experience.


  • Human Resources Professional Certification (e.g., PHR, SPHR, SHRM, CIPD).


  • 4+ years experience with partnering with wide network of clients and across human resources to deliver effective business solutions.


  • Experience with large scale change management


HR Business Partnership 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.

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