[Hiring] Senior Director, Workforce Intelligence @Microsoft

Role Description

Lead the development of workforce intelligence products that help leaders make more informed decisions about talent, capability, capacity and investment. This role combines product leadership, workforce analytics and strategic foresight to turn complex information into practical choices with measurable business value.

You will take products from concept through adoption, connecting business needs with rigorous analysis and thoughtful user experience. Working across People, Finance, Engineering, Research and business teams, you will build trusted solutions that help the organization understand its workforce, anticipate changing needs and evaluate investment trade-offs. This is a product-building leadership role, not solely a reporting or analytics function.

Responsibilities

• Product direction and delivery:
  • Own product direction, priorities and delivery plans.
  • Translate ambiguous needs into clear requirements, testable hypotheses and useful products.
  • Make disciplined choices about what to build, reuse, partner on or stop.
  • Lead discovery, prototyping, testing and scaling in close partnership with users and technical teams.
  • Establish evidence-based success measures and use feedback to improve the experience.
  • Favor reusable capabilities over disconnected one-off solutions.
• Workforce insight and business impact:
  • Develop forward-looking insight into workforce supply, demand, skills and capability needs.
  • Bring together internal workforce information and external labor-market trends.
  • Use forecasting and scenario analysis to help leaders understand uncertainty and options.
  • Partner with Finance and business leaders to connect workforce choices to capacity, cost and business performance.
• Trusted data and responsible use:
  • Set clear standards for workforce data quality and consistent definitions.
  • Strengthen ownership, governance and ongoing stewardship of products.
  • Embed privacy, security, fairness and appropriate access into product decisions.
• Partnership and executive influence:
  • Align cross-functional partners around shared outcomes and clear ownership.
  • Resolve dependencies and competing priorities through sound judgment and influence.
  • Communicate complex findings and product choices simply and credibly to executives.

What you will bring

• A track record of building and scaling data or intelligence products.
• Substantial experience in workforce strategy, people analytics, talent intelligence or related transformation work.
• Technical fluency to work effectively with engineering and data specialists.
• A systems perspective and strong executive communication skills.

What success looks like

• Leaders use trusted workforce intelligence to make better-informed choices.
• Products move from concept into sustained use, demonstrating clear value.
• Workforce and skills information is more consistent and reliable.

Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND demonstrable experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.
  • People management experience.
• Preferred qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND demonstrable experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR Master's Degree in Business, Operations, Finance, or related field AND demonstrable experience in program management, process management, or process improvement OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience building and scaling data or intelligence products.
  • Significant experience in workforce strategy, people analytics, talent intelligence or related transformation.
  • Analytical, business and financial judgment.
  • Platform-independent technical fluency.
  • Ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives.
  • Depth in workforce forecasting and scenario analysis.
  • Practical data quality, governance and privacy experience.
  • Experience using skills and capability intelligence for talent investment.
  • Experience partnering with Finance, Strategy or Business Operations.
  • Experience developing teams and cross-disciplinary partnerships.

Benefits

• The typical base pay range for this role across United Kingdom is £100,400.00 - £200,500.00 per year.
• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Company Description

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

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