Executive Market Aligned Recruiting Director
Overview: Microsoft's Global Talent Acquisition organization mission is to engage and hire the people who empower the planet. We play a vital role in delivering on the promise of Microsoft's culture and ultimately, make a difference in the world, through how and who we recruit. We believe that when recruiting experiences reflect the value and diversity of talented people, everyone can achieve more. The Executive Market Aligned Recruiting Director is a unique opportunity to architect Microsoft's global strategy for identifying and competing for executive talent. They will lead a dedicated and high-impact team that plays a pivotal role in Microsoft's ongoing transformation through sourcing and engaging top leadership talent for opportunities today while ensuring a pipeline of innovative prospects for the future. This involves creating unique and robust blueprint strategies based on industry insights and market mapping, as well as developing optimal candidate generation and development strategies for our highest priority engineering and go-to-market roles. 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 inspire 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.
Responsibilities: This is a stimulating role that partners closely with a broad spectrum of internal stakeholders: Leaders across the Business and Human Resources (HR) including Global Talent Acquisition and Talent Management. They will be the line leader for a team of globally based Market Aligned Recruiters and Director, a part of our GETA Extended Leadership Team along with owning relationships with our external providers. This leader will be responsible for the following:
- Impeccable Values & People Management: Treat everyone with respect and recognize that the thoughts, feelings, and backgrounds of others are important; proactively build trust by keeping their word, being transparent, and telling others the truth with care; make intentions and goals clear and invite input from others on how they are doing.
- Recruiting at Scale: Operate with consistency and focus on continuous improvement (process, tools, programs, etc.) to deliver greater business impact and insights. Effectively collaborate with other teams both within and outside of Global Talent Acquisition in support of our mission.
- Data Driven Outcomes: Leverage data from a range of internal and external sources to provide deep analytical insight to drive informed decision making and clear strategic outcomes while contributing to the overall Global Talent Acquisition strategy. Ensure accurate business reporting to clients and stakeholders against quality metrics monthly, and coach and mentor the team of recruiters to make data-driven decisions.
- Enable Global Scale & Impact: Contribute to the ongoing development of a global ecosystem of processes, systems, and tools that enable productivity and impact and create global consistency and scalability. Ability to develop a global blueprint on targeted companies, industries, and talent and prioritize effectively based on key market insights and Microsoft's overarching current and future needs.
- Learner Mindset: Passion for learning and growth while also inspiring the same for others. Always seeking ways to drive toward higher levels of excellence in contributions to direct and broad Talent Acquisition team. Ability to get the team up to speed quickly on new markets, technology, and product domains to quickly understand and apply this knowledge into effective search strategies.
- Customer Obsessed: Build productive partnerships with executive business and HR leaders to define and deliver talent acquisition and succession plans. This means learning about our internal and external stakeholders to build domain expertise and then being relied on for advice and providing solutions that meet or exceed their needs.
- Other: Embody our culture and values.