Microsoft

You have unique experiences, skills, and passions—and we believe you can bring them all to Microsoft for a rich, rewarding career and lifestyle that will surprise you with its breadth and potential. Just imagine the excitement and satisfaction of what you can do, where you can go, and the difference you can make with the resources of Microsoft behind you.

Here at Microsoft Ireland, we help change the way the world lives, works, and plays. Explore the diverse nature of our businesses and job opportunities and, if you like what you see, consider joining us— our people are some of the most extraordinary people you’ll ever meet.

The choices are yours

At Microsoft, you’ll have an amazing range of opportunities. You might become an expert in a particular field or build proficiencies across many areas. You might be an individual contributor or become a manager. Because we have so many kinds of jobs in so many different places, you can stay in one building, city, or country, or you can cross borders—in person, or virtually.

Your career and professional development is a partnership between you and your manager, reinforced by our numerous career resources. And as much as we’re here to support you, we believe your career is an individual adventure. You drive your career development plan while your manager assists and coaches you, and we provide a framework with the tools and resources you need to succeed.

One thing is certain: You’ll never stand still at Microsoft.

Our Philosophy: An individual adventure

Defined roles. Each of our jobs has clear requirements for success but lots of room to push boundaries and grow. Managers provide ongoing support, but ultimately you are empowered to shape your personal experience and chart your own career path. You can go deep in an area of expertise, or move across functions or businesses to experience a breadth of opportunity.

Career path options. You don’t have to be a manager to move up. Both individual contributor and management careers progress all the way through senior levels—we highly value both.

Movement across professions. We define desired results and consistently apply them for all professions available in our business groups. This makes it easy for you to learn about each profession and identify and develop the skills you’ll need if you want to make a change.

Our Career Model: A clear way to manage your career

Our career model is a framework and set of tools that gives you a consistent way to manage your career, identify opportunities for progress, and document your results. The model will help you understand how to take control of your career and provide context for the vast resources we offer to help you succeed. As part of your development, you’ll have the option to engage in some 2,000 training programs taught by instructors from leading educational institutions and offered online, virtually, or in classrooms around the globe. You can’t beat the level of investment we place on career development.

Diversity and Inclusion: A better way to do business

At Microsoft, “Diversity and Inclusion” is not just a statement; it’s our core value, business imperative, and investment in our people. We promote diversity in everything we do because we realize that a diversified employee base creates customer satisfaction and a competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

As the home of one of Microsoft’s largest data centres, Microsoft Ireland is uniquely positioned to have one of the broadest and most diverse sets of business functions, with employees drawn from more than 40 countries. Ireland is home to Microsoft’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Operations Center (EOC), which manages business processes and operations strategy. Our European Development Centre (EDC) builds solutions for customers around the world, while our international software teams customize Microsoft products for hundreds of geographies and languages. We look to our talented Sales, Marketing and Services (SMSG) teams to offer innovative technology solutions to our customers and partners throughout Ireland. Furthermore, we combine our organizational forces to make a difference through a wide variety of community, charity, and government outreach programs.

Microsoft is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees. It is our goal to support the best candidates and employees in our recruitment, employee training, and retention efforts regardless of race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, marital status, family status, age, disability, or membership of the traveller community. Along with a strong employee support platform, we also offer a prayer room, fitness centre, health and well-being programs, and an array of social networking groups. In addition, our local Diversity and Inclusion Council sponsors activities such as multicultural celebration days, mentor programs, special career development events to foster an open and inclusive work environment, and external programs such as DigiYouthz, which promotes careers in technology for secondary school students.