At Microsoft, we are building a future-ready, skills-informed talent ecosystem—one that empowers employees to navigate their careers with clarity and enables the business to make smarter, data-informed workforce decisions. As part of this vision, the **Skills & Career Platform team** plays a critical role in shaping the core capabilities, systems, and experiences that bring this strategy to life. We are seeking a strategic and systems-minded **Senior Talent Manager** to help advance this vision, with a specific focus on defining and activating enterprise-wide capabilities related to skills architecture, proficiency modeling, and platform-aligned talent experiences. This individual contributor role will connect strategy to execution, driving talent initiatives that deliver clear business impact. You’ll also help define the standards, tools, and frameworks that guide how skills intelligence powers talent practices and work flows—while enabling agentic, personalized career journeys for employees. **Why Microsoft** Microsoft is a workplace unlike any other. We value innovation, inclusion, and impact—and we’re committed to helping our people grow. In this role, you’ll help shape the future of how employees discover, develop, and apply their capabilities, empowering career growth at scale. You’ll be at the forefront of building a skills-informed, future-ready talent ecosystem—powered by intelligent insights, inclusive design, and a deep commitment to employee enablement. 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** **Enterprise Skills Architecture & Strategy** Drive the evolution of Microsoft’s enterprise-wide skills architecture, including taxonomy design, proficiency modeling, and alignment with core talent practices. Define frameworks and standards in partnership with key HR and Business stakeholders, and platform teams to ensure consistency, relevance, and scalability across the ecosystem. **Integration into Talent Practices** Partner with cross-functional teams to activate the skills and capabilities framework across core talent practices, driving consistency, scalability, business value and meaningful employee experiences. Collaborate with stakeholders across Human Resources Centers of Excellence and business stakeholders to ensure seamless implementation, change readiness, and intuitive employee and manager experiences. **Skills Intelligence & Insights** Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply skills intelligence in innovative and responsible ways, including inference, validation, and insights that inform talent strategy. Partner with talent marketplace analytics team to align actionable insights for talent decisions and targeted business impact. **Employee Experience & Platform Enablement** Translate strategy into business and platform requirements that enable personalized, persona-based career experiences Co-create user journeys, proof-of-concepts, and narratives that empower employees to navigate career growth with clarity and ownership. **Other** Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications** + Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field AND 7+ years experience in HR practices or program/project management + OR 10+ years experience in HR practices or program/project management + 3+ years experience managing large-scale or complex projects/programs + 7+ years of experience in business strategy, talent management, workforce transformation, or related fields + 2+ years of experience supporting skills transformation or capability architecture efforts at scale **Preferred Qualifications** + Familiarity with AI-driven talent intelligence tools and skills inference approaches + Understanding of capability modeling, skills taxonomies, and their application across enterprise talent practices + Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence across complex, matrixed organizations + Experience working with or translating requirements for talent platforms or employee-facing technologies + Ability to drive alignment and adoption across diverse stakeholder groups through storytelling, structured thinking, and change leadership + Experience supporting skills transformation or capability architecture efforts at scale + Background working in agile or product-oriented environments + Analytical mindset with an ability to interpret data and translate insights into action + Drive for for building inclusive, empowering talent experiences that support employee growth and organizational agility Talent Management 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 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 23, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .