Director of AI-Era Skilling Transformation
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 13, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft is redefining how people skill in the age of AI. As the Director of AI-Era Skilling Transformation you will lead the disruption of skilling into a dynamic, AI-powered, in-flow experience that meets the evolving demands of work. This role is central to operationalizing our vision to Work to Skill via Agentic enabled Work Embedded Skilling - a new SaaS category that enables real-time, personalized, and scalable development across the enterprise. Why This Role Matters This is not just a job; it's a movement. You will help Microsoft, and its customers close the productivity gap by enabling "always skilled" talent. Your work will shape the future of learning and skilling. The Director, AI-Era Skilling Transformation, is a pivotal role focused on disrupting how Microsoft's global workforce builds and evolves future-ready skilling. This role exists to deliver transformative skilling experiences that intrinsically motivate individuals and teams to skill through exploration, demonstration, and real-world experiences. You'll collaborate across Academies, Engineering, Human Resources, Data Analytics, and global learning partners, applying Agile methodology to provide input into strategy, define success metrics, and deliver solutions that build critical skills with measurement, confidence and clarity. 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.
ResponsibilitiesThought Leadership: Champion the shift from episodiclearningto continuous, AI-augmented skilling embedded directly into the flow of work through business aligned co creation.Advance foresight practices ensuring anticipatory and proactive approaches toidentifying,pursuingand building skills while building systems that keep content, modalities and feedback up to date and relevant to end users. Portfolio Development, Management and Evolution: Develop,manageand evolve a comprehensive portfolio ofagentic enabled and infusedskilling experiences meeting the on-going needs of Microsoft's organizations,teamsand individuals to skill at the pace and scale of change.Adult learning and neuroscience expertise is expected to drive high quality end user experiences, while innovating at speed to skilling revolution. Innovation & Productization:Collaborate and co-create on the design and deployment of intelligent skilling agents powered by Microsoft Copilot. Define and scale new learning experiences that triple upskilling speed and halve time-to-competency.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Academies Engineering, HR, Product, and Business stakeholders to integrate skilling into workflows, tools, and platforms. Ensure co-creation and business centricity with business outcomes aligned to measurable talent strategies. Motivation and Completion: Design and deliver skilling solutions that intrinsically motivate individuals,teamsand organizations to pursue skilling as a necessary investment in themselves and their profession.Successful user experiences will deliver high completion of skilling, with measurable impact and low dropout rates. Data-Driven Impact: Leverage deep telemetry and AI insights to measure andoptimizeskillingeffectiveness.Use data to dynamically inform talent decisions with shifting business needs and drive measurable performance outcomes. Connections to Projects and Job Partner with colleagues in the career and development space to ensure necessary connections for end users across career, job, skilling and learning experiences. Change Management & Adoption: Build trust and engagement across the workforce byanticipatingAI-skilling adoption needs and barriers. Other Embody our culture and values | |