Director, Organization Development

We are hiring a Director, Organization Development. This is a high-impact role for an organization development practitioner who can help shape how the People team works, leads, and delivers through one of its most consequential periods of transformation. The Director, Organization Development will bring strategic depth, practical judgment, and a bias for action, translating organizational theory, diagnostics, and data into clear choices, fast learning, and durable behavior change across leaders, teams, and systems. This leader will partner with senior People leaders to make complex organizational opportunities easier to see, understand, and act on. This role also includes management responsibilities and will require a leader who builds trust, develops talent, sets a high bar for quality and impact, and creates the conditions for others to do meaningful, transformative work.

Responsibilities

Guides HR and business leaders through complex, large-system organizational transformation efforts; Leads the creation of end-to-end change plans, including communication, engagement, and implementation plans, and manages schedules and budgets; Assesses leadership and team effectiveness issues and designs practical interventions; Provides organizational capability insights and defines long-term capability needs; Provides executive counsel on organizational models and leads organization design efforts; Engages business leaders to gather data, validate diagnostics, and recommend OD interventions; Identifies gaps, conflicts, and misalignments in strategy execution and recommends corrections; Builds a case for action, mobilizes resources, and leads dialogues on organizational needs and tradeoffs; Contracts, leads, and coaches HR partners and direct reports on intervention plans; Helps executive teams clarify strategy, make tradeoffs, and align priorities; Builds and leads a high-performing team by setting expectations, developing talent, and modeling sound judgment; Embodies Microsoft's culture and values

Requirements

Doctorate in Human Resources, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Business, Organizational Development, or related field AND 7+ years experience in organizational development, human resources, business, or related experience; Master's Degree in Human Resources, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Business, Organizational Development, or related field AND 10+ years experience in organizational development, human resources, business, or related experience; Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Business, Organizational Development, or related field AND 12+ years experience in organizational development, human resources, business, or related experience; Experience in organizational development, human resources, business, or related equivalent experience; 8+ years formal or informal leadership experience; 3+ years people management experience

Nice to have

9+ years of experience across consulting, program design, organizational design, strategic planning/execution, change management, Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP), Human Resources (HR), or equivalent experience; 10+ years of formal or informal leadership experience; 5+ years of people management experience