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Director, HR Consulting - Engineering & Gaming at Microsoft | LAYIQ

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.

Director, HR Consulting - Engineering & Gaming

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