Overview:

We are seeking a highly motivated Recruiter to be part of the fast growing Microsoft AI Team.

About MAI & Role Purpose

Microsoft AI (MAI) is dedicated to building innovative products that responsibly advance AI technology. As a Recruiter within MAI, you’ll play a critical role in attracting and hiring top talent to support this mission. While prior recruiting experience is helpful, AI-specific recruiting experience is not required—curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for learning are key.

What You’ll Do & Impact

In this role, you’ll manage full-cycle recruiting for assigned positions, partnering with hiring managers to understand requirements and craft effective strategies. You’ll source diverse talent pools, deliver an exceptional candidate experience, and collaborate with coordinators to ensure smooth interview logistics. By leveraging data insights and fostering inclusion, you’ll help accelerate MAI’s growth and contribute to building teams that reflect Microsoft’s values of innovation and integrity.

Microsoft AI (MAI)'s Mission is to use AI responsibly to make everyone more informed, capable, and supported. We are creating unique, beautiful and powerful products that will change lives. We are proud of what we build, how we build it and that our products will define the AI era. In Microsoft’s Global Talent Acquisition organization, our mission is to engage and hire the people who empower the planet. Find out more about us at Microsoft AI.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities:

Stakeholder/Client Engagement

• Uses data to educate and influence hiring managers on talent acquisition strategy and linking this data to filling the roles. Interprets client’s business and the industry landscape and/or university talent pools to influence the client to adopt optimal staffing solutions.

• Progresses candidates through the interview and closing process, and works with others teams to meet candidate needs (e.g., onboarding, relocation, Visas, critical dependencies). Closes candidates by anticipating and responding to objections from the business while maintaining fiscal responsibility. Negotiates appropriately with the client/stakeholder to drive solutions that balance their short- and long-term talent needs.

Candidate Attraction

• Coaches the client to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors. Delivers differentiated pitch to candidates based on their unique motivators and knowledge of the Microsoft deal (e.g., compensation, benefits, perks, career development).

• Elicits interest in passive, active, and potential candidates by telling the business story, and contributes to the development of new stories. Generates awareness through community outreach events and strategic networking related to future hiring needs.

Candidate Experience

• Gathers requirements and develops hiring plans that meet candidate needs throughout the hiring lifecycle. Owns elements of the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process. Enhances the candidate experience at all phases of the relationship by proactively identifying factors that may adversely impact the candidate and partnering with hiring managers to develop mitigation strategies and by ensuring operational excellence managing candidates application through the application tracking system (ATS). Maintains Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure timeliness of process completion.

Operational Compliance & Excellence

• Maintains current documentation/information on candidates’ qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines (e.g., Office of Federal Compliance Programs, General Data Protection Regulation). Captures relevant data in recruiting platform and leverages data to inform meaningful insights.

Talent Sourcing

• Develops multi-channel strategies to contribute to differentiated talent in emerging roles or highly competitive talent pools to meet long-term business needs (e.g., industry, technical recruiting).

• Uses an understanding of talent markets and complex candidate profiles, as well as growing relationships with new talent pools and communities with future potential, to identify and engage candidates for immediate and future talent needs. Creates and presents effective reports to the business that provides key insights and market intelligence that help form effective sourcing strategies.

Other

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 4+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree AND 5+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role OR Master's Degree AND 3+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role OR equivalent experience.

Talent Acquisition IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,100 - $169,800 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 $112,000 - $185,300 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.

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. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.