Head of Recruiting

Persona is a recruiting and staffing company that hires exceptional people from 98 countries into full-time, long-term remote roles with the most ambitious companies on earth.

Our clients include Fortune 500 enterprises, fast-growing startups backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, and high-performing companies of every size in between. We offer roles in project management, operations, finance, design, marketing, customer success, and more. Every hire is for a specific open position: one person, one dedicated client, built to last.

Every offer we make is for an open role with a single client — the kind of role that’s almost impossible to find on your own: industry-leading pay set against your experience and skill, real career growth, and a stable seat at a serious company, working from home, anywhere in the world.

Persona was founded in 2018 by two Stanford graduates on a simple idea: talent is everywhere, but opportunity isn’t. By recruiting globally for specific client roles, we’ve grown into one of the fastest-growing companies in the global staffing industry. Every applicant goes through the same steps, and each one is designed to let you show what you can actually do.

We hire people who care about the craft of their work, take ownership without being asked, and want to build a career rather than just hold a job. If that’s you, and one of our open roles fits, we’d like to meet you.

Role Summary

We are hiring a Head of Recruiting to own and continuously improve the full recruiting function for a growing technology organization. This is a highly hands-on individual-contributor role responsible for managing multiple hiring pipelines from sourcing through offer, partnering closely with hiring managers, building recruiting strategy and processes, and proactively finding exceptional candidates who may not be actively looking.

The majority of upcoming hiring will support engineering, with additional roles across product, marketing, fundraising, policy, finance, and operations. The ideal candidate combines strong outbound sourcing skills, full-cycle recruiting expertise, technical literacy, disciplined pipeline management, and comfort using AI tools to make recruiting faster and more effective.

This role is open exclusively to candidates currently based in Latin America.

Key Responsibilities

Full-Cycle Recruiting & Pipeline Ownership

• Own recruiting pipelines from application and sourcing through screening, interviews, decision-making, and offer

• Manage multiple concurrent hiring processes while ensuring candidates continue moving through each stage

• Review and triage applications and maintain accurate candidate pipelines in the applicant tracking system

• Conduct first-round screens and assess baseline qualifications before advancing candidates to hiring leads

• Coordinate interviews and ensure interviewers have the context, scorecards, and candidate information they need

• Consolidate interviewer feedback and help drive hiring processes toward timely decisions

• Support offer preparation and help close high-quality candidates

• Maintain strong candidate communication throughout the process, including timely and respectful disposition of unsuccessful applicants

Talent Sourcing & Technical Recruiting

• Proactively source and engage passive candidates for hard-to-fill technical roles

• Build long-term pipelines of potential candidates for anticipated hiring needs

• Develop relationships with relevant AI, machine learning, privacy, open-source, and technical communities

• Use LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, professional communities, networking, and other sourcing channels

• Recruit primarily for engineering roles while also supporting product and non-technical hiring

• Conduct credible initial conversations with technical candidates and identify candidates worth advancing to engineering and product leaders

Recruiting Strategy & Process Design

• Continuously improve the organization’s recruiting strategy, processes, and candidate journey

• Act as a recruiting partner to hiring managers and department leads

• Coach hiring managers and adapt recruiting processes to different departments and roles

• Own and improve job descriptions, application flows, recruiting content, and pipeline conversion

• Develop structured interview processes, scorecards, interview questions, and candidate assessments

• Track recruiting metrics such as pass-through rates, time to hire, candidate drop-off, and pipeline health

• Identify weak points in the hiring funnel and implement improvements

AI, Tools & Recruiting Operations

• Use AI tools actively for sourcing, screening, research, workflow improvement, and recruiting efficiency

• Evaluate and adopt recruiting tools that improve speed and quality

• Administer skills assessments and escalate borderline results with clear written recommendations

• Maintain organized recruiting records and ensure no candidates or action items are dropped

• Support job posting across relevant job boards, recruiting platforms, and company channels

Required Qualifications

• Full-cycle recruiting experience for technical roles, including engineering and product

• Direct experience recruiting AI/ML engineers

• Strong outbound sourcing experience, including successfully engaging passive candidates

• Experience recruiting within a software product organization

• Experience hiring outside engineering, such as marketing, fundraising, policy, finance, or other business functions

• Demonstrated ability to successfully close candidates who may have competing or higher-paying offers

• Strong enough technical literacy to evaluate engineering resumes and conduct credible first-round screening conversations

• Experience developing and administering structured interviews, scorecards, and skills assessments

• Current experience using AI tools as part of recruiting workflows

• Strong attention to detail, organization, ownership, and follow-through across multiple simultaneous hiring pipelines

• Experience with applicant tracking systems and recruiting workflow tools

• Experience recruiting for remote organizations and working with U.S. employers

• Must be currently based in Latin America

• Genuine interest in AI, privacy, and open-source technology

• Fully fluent in English

• Ability to commit long-term and full-time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Workable or a similar applicant tracking system

• Experience using Asana or a comparable project management tool

• Experience using Notion or a similar documentation platform

• Familiarity with recruiting in privacy, AI/ML, open-source, or other highly technical environments

• Experience building talent pipelines within specialized technical communities

Tools & Technologies

• LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Applicant tracking systems such as Workable, Project management tools such as Asana, Documentation tools such as Notion, AI-assisted sourcing and screening tools, Skills-assessment platforms

Core Competencies

• Hands-on recruiting leader who is equally comfortable setting strategy and personally driving searches from sourcing through offer

• Strong technical recruiting judgment with the ability to evaluate engineering talent and conduct credible early-stage screening

• Resourceful outbound sourcer who can identify and engage high-quality passive candidates in specialized talent markets

• Highly organized across multiple concurrent pipelines, interviews, follow-ups, and hiring priorities

• Strong hiring-manager partner who can translate role needs into structured, effective recruiting processes

• Data-informed operator who uses funnel metrics, candidate feedback, and pipeline performance to improve hiring outcomes

• AI-forward recruiter who actively experiments with tools and workflows to improve recruiting speed, quality, and consistency

• Persistent and commercially aware closer who keeps strong candidates engaged through competitive hiring processes

What We Offer

• Best salaries in the industry

• work remotely from the location specified for this role permanently

• Opportunities for growth and advancement

• A fast-paced and collaborative environment

• A warm, people-first company culture

• Get paid in your currency of choice

• Full benefits

This is a full-time, long-term remote position dedicated to one client company. Persona provides onboarding and ongoing employment support for this position.