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As a Technical Recruiter supporting Azure teams within Cloud+AI, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Cloud+AI platforms. Cloud + AI Platforms unify Azure Infrastructure, Data & AI, and Digital & App Innovation into a single, connected solution area designed to help organizations lead confidently in the AI era. This integrated approach delivers secure, scalable, and intelligent capabilities, enabling customers to accelerate business transformation from migration and modernization to AI innovation.. You’ll partner closely with engineering and product leaders to identify, engage, and hire talent across Product and Engineering groups.

This role demands creativity, precision, and a deep understanding of the competitive landscape. You’ll drive differentiated sourcing strategies, refine hiring bar calibration, and support storytelling that resonates with candidates from top security programs and industry-leading companies.

We are seeking a highly motivated Recruiter to accelerate the growth of Cloud + AI Platforms through the talent we identify and recruit. We’re looking for someone who leads with care, thrives in ambiguity, and gets energy from coaching, developing, and contributing to the success of others.

You may be a fit for this role if you:

+ Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments where agility and adaptability are key.

+ Enjoy working in a mission-driven culture where protecting customers is at the heart of everything.

+ Are passionate about data and infrastructure and excited to help shape the teams building the future of Cloud+AI.

+ Demonstrate a bias for action, a passion for innovation, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

+ Have a proven track record of developing and executing creative hiring strategies that attract top-tier technical talent in highly competitive markets.

+ Possess executive presence with the ability to engage and influence leadership stakeholders, including hiring leaders and executive staff.

+ Balance long-term talent planning with immediate hiring needs, thinking strategically while executing tactically.

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

+ 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.

+ Identifies current and future talent needs through proactive exploration and analysis of market demands.Proactively consult with leaders to provide clarity of available talent market.

Data Analysis & Hiring Plans

+ Analyzes relevant data and trends to provide insight, and consults with a business, area, or subsidiary to implement a hiring plan that addresses both business demand and talent availability for short-term and near-term needs (2-6 months).

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).

+ Shares best practices on sourcing, recruiting, and/or closing techniques and stories with their own team. Tracks candidate activity using systems and tools.

+ 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.

+ Uses subject matter expertise on applying internal and external staffing policies, standards, and/or regulations throughout the entire staffing lifecycle to educate clients, stakeholders, and other staffers on policy, system, and process issues. Identifies opportunities to optimize policies, systems, and processes.

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 AND 4+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 2+ years of core technical/engineering full life cycle recruiting experience

Preferred Qualifications

+ Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role

+ OR Master's Degree AND 6+ years talent acquisition experience (e.g., recruiting, sourcing), HR experience, or industry experience related to role

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ Experience recruiting in the Cloud/Azure space in a high-growth or enterprise environment.

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 24, 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) .