Recent graduate opportunities

Now that you’ve taken the classes and earned the degree, it’s time to take the first steps into your career and put your talents to work in the real world. Do you want to play a vital part in the business success of a high-tech global leader? Would you like to experience an inspiring world class program? Are you ready to start your Microsoft journey? Microsoft offers full-time graduate roles in a variety of fields across business and engineering where you can begin applying your skills. 

 

For those embarking on the initial steps of their career after college, Microsoft offers full-time graduate roles to help kick start your journey. We know the importance of working in a role where your talents will shine, your interests will grow, and your passions will inspire your peers. 

Microsoft Aspire Experience


  • Overview

  • Qualifications needed

  • What to expect
  • We believe that Microsoft is a place for exploration, creativity, innovation, and professional growth. Once you’re ready to launch your career at Microsoft, we’re ready to empower you to achieve more. All global university hires, regardless of role or title, will be part of a rich learning and development experience called the Microsoft Aspire Experience, and MBA hires will be part of Microsoft Aspire MBA.

  • We hire for all education levels, including Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and PhD degrees. To be considered as a student or recent graduate you need to be:

     

    • Full-time university candidate 

    • Attending an accredited institution

    • Currently enrolled or within 12 months of graduation 

  • All university and MBA hires will benefit from a customized on-boarding process at the Microsoft Aspire Experience. This two-year development program will equip you with the tools to thrive at Microsoft and realize your full potential. It’s designed to help you:

     

    • Foster a robust understanding of Microsoft’s business, culture, and values

    • Accelerate your impact by empowering you to explore your strengths and passions

    • Develop a broad, rich network of peers, mentors, and sponsors  

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  • Employees working in a shared space
  • Employees helping eachother on desktops.

    We believe that Microsoft is a place for exploration, creativity, innovation, and professional growth. Once you’re ready to launch your career at Microsoft, we’re ready to empower you to achieve more. All global university hires, regardless of role or title, will be part of a rich learning and development experience called the Microsoft Aspire Experience, and MBA hires will be part of Microsoft Aspire MBA.

  • Laptop on a desk.

    We hire for all education levels, including Bachelors, Masters, MBA, and PhD degrees. To be considered as a student or recent graduate you need to be:

     

    • Full-time university candidate 

    • Attending an accredited institution

    • Currently enrolled or within 12 months of graduation 

  • Employees working in a shared space

    All university and MBA hires will benefit from a customized on-boarding process at the Microsoft Aspire Experience. This two-year development program will equip you with the tools to thrive at Microsoft and realize your full potential. It’s designed to help you:

     

    • Foster a robust understanding of Microsoft’s business, culture, and values

    • Accelerate your impact by empowering you to explore your strengths and passions

    • Develop a broad, rich network of peers, mentors, and sponsors  

  • Microsoft Aspire University Track

    Microsoft Aspire is dedicated to recent university (e.g., undergraduate, masters, PhD) hires who are just starting to establish their careers. The two-year learning and development experience is designed for you to build your network, accelerate your growth, and discover opportunities—in your role, in your team and beyond—along with thousands of your early career peers.

  • Microsoft Aspire MBA Track

    Microsoft Aspire MBA is designed to maximize the potential of approximately 200 MBA hires who join us from around the world every year. The two-year learning and development experience will help you discover and understand Microsoft, advance your leadership development skills, and build a powerful network.

  • Microsoft Aspire MBA Track

    Microsoft Aspire MBA is designed to maximize the potential of approximately 200 MBA hires who join us from around the world every year. The two-year learning and development experience will help you discover and understand Microsoft, advance your leadership development skills, and build a powerful network.

Working at Microsoft, an employee’s perspective

  • Software Engineer 

    Meet Chandler, a Software Engineer, as she shares her journey and experience at Microsoft.

  • Program Manager

    Meet Bobby, a Program Manager at Microsoft. See how he mixes his career with his passions outside of work. 

  • Technical Consultant

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  • Account Technology Strategist

    Meet Ofentse, an Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft. His passion is to use technology to transform people’s lives and bring change in their everyday experience.

  • Account Manager

    Meet Danielle, an Account Manager at Microsoft who thought her role would involve old-school cold calling. To her surprise, she quickly learned that her role would be more.

Featured roles


  • Customer Facing Technology

  • UX Designer

  • Product Marketing Manager

  • Technical Solution Specialist 

  • Partner Development Manager

  • Research
  • The customer facing technology segment of the business helps customers and partners discover and implement high-value Microsoft solutions that generate rapid, meaningful, and measurable results. With its global partner network and support infrastructure, Microsoft Services segment of the business enables the successful adoption, deployment, and use of Microsoft solutions and technologies for all customers, from the individual to the enterprise. Microsoft Services is designed to provide the right scope of services at the right time, including localized support solutions for businesses and consumers around the world.

  • As a UX Designer, you will work closely with product managers and engineers while driving design from concept to final implementation. You will see design as beginning with the conception of the product and iterating throughout the release cycle, not a veneer to be applied at the end. You will possess rock solid design principles, with problem solving skills and potential, big picture focus and leadership qualities.

  • The Product Marketing Manager is accountable for the subsidiary revenue, scorecard, and market share for their assigned products in the subsidiary. The PMM is required to have a strong understanding of their product set and a deep understanding of customer solutions and strategies. This role is the voice of the products they represent within the subsidiary as well as the leader and the spokesperson for their product set.

     

  • As a Technical Solution Specialist, you will work in the pre-sales team with enterprise customers to help them understand the how-to of technologies. As you will be the expert in Microsoft solutions and product portfolio with a focus on cloud technologies, you will help our sellers in technical discussions, design solutions and drive customer engagements through proof-of-concepts. Your goal will be to prove the value proposition and benefits of the designed solution and architectures.

  • As a Partner Development Manager (PDM), you will have a key role in enabling Microsoft’s partner management strategy. You will align to a partner segment and will be accountable for driving performance of a managed portfolio of partners by business priority. You will drive partner recruitment, enablement and business growth based on their strengths and priorities. You will represent Microsoft to our partners, communicate our strategy, sell our vision, and bring partners along in their digital transformation journey.

  • Microsoft Research Asia has excelled at creating a talent fostering environment, where researchers are free to explore and pursue what interests them. This culture not only drives researchers to develop groundbreaking technologies and work at the cutting edge but has also made the lab a natural partner for universities and governments. Microsoft Research Asia is committed to seeking broad and deep engagement with academic communities to promote collaboration, cultivate innovation, advance education, and turn ideas into reality.

  • Employee speaking in front of a group of other people.
  • Employee working on a laptop.
  • Two employes walking together.
  • Employee working on laptop on a couch.
  • Employee walking into the Microsoft Office.
  • Employee with headset working on computer.
  • Employee speaking in front of a group of other people.

    The customer facing technology segment of the business helps customers and partners discover and implement high-value Microsoft solutions that generate rapid, meaningful, and measurable results. With its global partner network and support infrastructure, Microsoft Services segment of the business enables the successful adoption, deployment, and use of Microsoft solutions and technologies for all customers, from the individual to the enterprise. Microsoft Services is designed to provide the right scope of services at the right time, including localized support solutions for businesses and consumers around the world.

  • Employee working on a laptop.

    As a UX Designer, you will work closely with product managers and engineers while driving design from concept to final implementation. You will see design as beginning with the conception of the product and iterating throughout the release cycle, not a veneer to be applied at the end. You will possess rock solid design principles, with problem solving skills and potential, big picture focus and leadership qualities.

  • Two employes walking together.

    The Product Marketing Manager is accountable for the subsidiary revenue, scorecard, and market share for their assigned products in the subsidiary. The PMM is required to have a strong understanding of their product set and a deep understanding of customer solutions and strategies. This role is the voice of the products they represent within the subsidiary as well as the leader and the spokesperson for their product set.

     

  • Employee working on laptop on a couch.

    As a Technical Solution Specialist, you will work in the pre-sales team with enterprise customers to help them understand the how-to of technologies. As you will be the expert in Microsoft solutions and product portfolio with a focus on cloud technologies, you will help our sellers in technical discussions, design solutions and drive customer engagements through proof-of-concepts. Your goal will be to prove the value proposition and benefits of the designed solution and architectures.

  • Employee walking into the Microsoft Office.

    As a Partner Development Manager (PDM), you will have a key role in enabling Microsoft’s partner management strategy. You will align to a partner segment and will be accountable for driving performance of a managed portfolio of partners by business priority. You will drive partner recruitment, enablement and business growth based on their strengths and priorities. You will represent Microsoft to our partners, communicate our strategy, sell our vision, and bring partners along in their digital transformation journey.

  • Employee with headset working on computer.

    Microsoft Research Asia has excelled at creating a talent fostering environment, where researchers are free to explore and pursue what interests them. This culture not only drives researchers to develop groundbreaking technologies and work at the cutting edge but has also made the lab a natural partner for universities and governments. Microsoft Research Asia is committed to seeking broad and deep engagement with academic communities to promote collaboration, cultivate innovation, advance education, and turn ideas into reality.

Life at Microsoft

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    Benefits

    Explore Microsoft’s world-class benefits designed to help you and your family live well.

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    Culture

    We will only achieve our mission if we live our culture, which starts with applying a growth mindset.

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    Diversity and inclusion

    We are committed to celebrating the diversity around us and its power to drive us forward together.

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    Flexible work

    At Microsoft, we value flexibility as part of our hybrid workplace so that you can feel empowered to do your best work.