Washington Staffing is hiring: Recruiter, Microsoft AI in Redmond

Microsoft AI Team Recruiter

We are seeking a highly motivated Recruiter to be part of the fast growing Microsoft AI Team. 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. Curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for learning are key.

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 a 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Candidate Assessment & Screening: Identifies, gathers, and assesses information to qualify talent pool. Executes initial screening and assessing of candidates.
• Candidate Attraction: Coaches the client to represent Microsoft's unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards. Delivers differentiated pitch to candidates based on their unique motivators and knowledge of the Microsoft deal.
• 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.
• 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.
• Market Analysis and Channel Insights: Synthesizes, analyzes, and interprets external market data, and provides market and channel insights to the business to inform hiring plans and implement talent acquisition initiatives.
• Operational Compliance & Excellence: Maintains current documentation/information on candidates' qualifications and status in the appropriate staffing or tracking system, within compliance guidelines.
• 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.
• 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.
• Workforce Analysis: Assesses and defines talent/diversity gaps and hiring needs of a small mid-scale business group/single discipline/single org. Presents this information to hiring managers and/or business leadership team to inform hiring plans and implement talent acquisition initiatives.

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 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.
• 1+ years of experience full life cycle recruiting AI or Machine Learning talent, including sourcing for roles such as Data Scientists, ML Engineers, AI Researchers, and Applied Scientists.

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.

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.