Persona is the company top startups use to hire people from all around the world. Our vision is a future where each person can find the best role for them and companies can discover the world’s best talent. Founded by two Stanford University graduates, Persona works with the world’s fastest-growing technology startups. Our clients are funded by some of the world’s top investors, like Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Andreessen Horowitz.
Persona is a talent agency that recruits, trains, and staffs talented remote professionals such as yourself. This is an opportunity to work closely with the future Googles, Facebooks, and Amazons of the world—building out their organizations and helping them reach the next level of success.
We support everyone we hire with training, mentoring, and technology resources so they are enabled to do their best and are as happy as possible in their roles. We have a large international team dedicated to supporting and taking care of new Persona team members, and our goal is to provide excellent long-term career opportunities for everyone who joins the team.
Who’s building Persona?
We are a global team of passionate problem solvers who love to build new things and make our customers happy. Our team is made up of motivated, hard-working people spanning the globe, united by a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
What we’re looking for:
We’re looking for a HR & Recruitment Manager who brings structure, empathy, and strong execution to every phase of the employee lifecycle—from hiring and onboarding to performance reviews and policy development. The ideal candidate has direct experience managing end-to-end recruitment for tech roles (particularly in product and engineering), and thrives in a remote, fast-paced, detail-driven environment.
This is a role for someone who takes deep pride in building exceptional teams, understands the nuances of people operations, and is comfortable handling sensitive information with discretion and maturity. You should be process-minded, resourceful, and ready to lead with both warmth and precision. If you’re energized by systems, thrive in ambiguity, and find fulfillment in enabling others’ success, this may be the perfect role for you.
Responsibilities—what you'll do:
Hiring
- Manage the hiring process from start to finish based upon Asana template.
- Ensure process moves forward, nudging internal team
- Help develop Job Alignment Tool, Job Post, and help develop interview questions and skills tests
- Post job on Workable, necessary job boards, and internal website
- Review applications, build and maintain Workable pipeline.
- Handle initial screening interviews
- Schedule and manage future interviews, including equipping managers and stakeholders with necessary tools.
- Ensure scorecards are completed after each interview
- Help coordinate and prepare job offers
- Keep candidates warm throughout process and send fast, respectful rejections.
Onboarding
- Manage the onboarding process from start to finish based upon Asana template. Ensure process moves forward, nudging internal team
- Set up software and new user access
- Work with internal team to develop training program and schedule training meetings
- Conduct internal training meetings
- Coordinate welcome, buddy assignment, and first-week agenda.
People Ops
- Help manage the annual team evaluation process in collaboration with CFO based upon Asana template. Ensure process moves forward, nudging internal team
- Run evaluation cycle logistics in Asana. Nudge to on-time completion.
- Setup Notion pages where the evaluations live — for self eval + manager eval pages
- Help facilitate the team compensation review process using Asana template + spreadsheets
- Help with ongoing team feedback loops (potential surveys, etc.)
Administration & Culture
- Support planning for team off-sites.
- Help develop and manage new org policies
- Help optimize a remote org / help develop strong culture remotely
- Generally help with org compliance around employment
- Assist with benefits selection and administration (if relevant)
Requirements:
- Alignment with time zone above (+/- 1 hour from ET)
- Direct experience in recruitment, specifically for tech roles (product management & engineering)
- Managed process, reviewed applications, interviewed candidates, worked on behalf of other departments who would manage the team member
- Maturity having visibility into team member salaries that exceed their own without mounting frustration
- Strong experience using applicant tracking systems (ideally Workable)
- Experience with US employers
- Fully fluent in English
- Skilled in the use of apps and technology
- Ability to commit long-term and full-time
- This position is for serious, career-oriented candidates
Like-To-Haves:
- Deep experience hiring software engineers
- Built skills tests and interview rubrics.
- Structured interviews and scorecards
- Managed evaluation process
- Experienced helping optimize a remote org / help develop strong culture
- remotely
- Experience with event planning and management
- Experience working in a startup environment
Traits & Attributes
- Get It
- Want It
- Capacity to Do It
- Bias to action
- Emotionally secure and ego-free when handling salary disparities
- Naturally warm, approachable, and builds trust quickly — will make candidates like them and want to work here
- Loves details, will be stressed without to do lists/process
- Self-directed with strong independent work ethic
- Comfortable with minimal supervision and feedback
- Content with async communication and limited social interaction — would be okay going 1 week+ without an internal meeting or 1:1
- Scrappy, resourceful, and thrives in ambiguity
- Finds deep fulfillment in enabling others' success
- Unquestionably ethical and discreet with sensitive information
- Genuinely interested/curious about tech/software/ai
- Resilient to rejection and maintains optimism
- Strong judgment and instincts in assessing senior talent
What we offer:
- Best salaries in the industry
- Permanent ability to work from anywhere in the world
- Opportunities for growth and advancement
- A fast-paced and collaborative environment
- Warm and friendly company culture
- Full benefits
Benefits at Persona:
- Health insurance
- Unlimited paid time off (paid sick and vacation leaves)
- Annual bonuses based on performance
- Monthly tech allowance
- Opportunity to be paid in your currency of choice
- Others depending on seniority
This is a full-time and long-term role, dedicated exclusively to serving one of our clients. We are looking for individuals who are ready to fully commit their time and energy to one company and grow and develop along with that company. All roles at Persona are 100% work-from-anywhere (work from home or wherever it suits you best). If this is your first time working for a U.S. company, that’s okay; we provide guidance and assistance getting set up as a remote professional. Once hired, we will carefully match you to a client company of ours that perfectly suits your career background, skills, and goals.
In case you or any exceptional people you know are exploring other roles, our rapidly growing company is also looking for new team members with backgrounds in administration, bookkeeping, accounting, finance, project management, operations, recruiting, human resources, content writing, social media management, research, executive assistance, customer service, customer support, technical support, data management, video editing, sales, account management, marketing, and design.
Visit our website for more information: https://www.personatalent.com/
