Director, Data & Applied Sciences

Do you enjoy developing and leading innovative data science solutions to solve big problems? Are you passionate about enabling data-based decisions to tackle strategic challenges? We are looking for someone to do just that in the context of Microsoft’s biggest asset - our people. This is a great opportunity to lead our evolving HR Business Insights (HRBI) Data & Applied Sciences (DAS) team as we forge leading practices in people analytics - important work that helps Microsoft empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The HRBI DAS team pioneers novel applications of machine learning, statistics, and AI to help support more data-driven people and organization decisions. As this team’s manager, you will help them leverage advances in Machine Learning and generative AI to incubate new advanced HR analytics solutions, piloting them within HRBI and partnering for wider deployment. In this important role, you will help Microsoft HR realize the potential of technological advancements and help inform product design for relevant technologies that Microsoft builds for customers worldwide (ex. Viva Insights). The ideal candidate will also deliver business impact through being an excellent people manager – modeling, coaching and caring for both team empowerment and accountability for high performance.