HR & Recruitment Manager

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 an HR & Recruitment Manager to lead the full employee lifecycle — hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, compensation reviews, and policy development — for a remote, tech-forward startup. Unlike a generalist HR role, this position requires direct experience running end-to-end recruitment for tech roles (product management and engineering) and comfort with US employer compliance. The ideal candidate is process-minded, mature with sensitive information, and energized by enabling others' success.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full hiring process from job alignment through offer using Asana templates

• Develop job posts, interview questions, and skills tests in partnership with hiring managers

• Post roles on Workable, job boards, and the internal careers site; review applications

• Conduct initial screening interviews; schedule and manage downstream interviews

• Equip hiring managers and interviewers with scorecards and structured interview tools

• Coordinate and prepare job offers; keep candidates warm; deliver fast, respectful rejections

• Manage onboarding end-to-end: software setup, access provisioning, training, buddy assignment, first-week agenda

• Run annual evaluation cycles and compensation review processes (Asana + Notion + spreadsheets)

• Set up self-eval and manager-eval pages in Notion; manage logistics and on-time completion

• Support team off-site planning, org policy development, and remote culture initiatives

• Manage org compliance around US employment, including benefits selection and administration

• Run team feedback loops (surveys, check-ins, exit interviews)

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in HR and recruitment, including direct experience recruiting for tech roles (product, engineering)

• Hands-on experience using applicant tracking systems (Workable strongly preferred)

• Experience working with US employers and US employment compliance

• Maturity to handle visibility into team-member salaries that may exceed your own without frustration

• Strong process orientation: built skills tests, interview rubrics, and structured interview guides

• Experience managing performance evaluation processes

• Fully fluent in English

• Skilled in modern apps and technology

• Ability to commit long-term and full-time

• Time-zone alignment with Eastern Time (±1 hour)

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience hiring software engineers

• Built skills tests, structured interview rubrics, and scorecards

• Experience helping optimize a remote organization's culture and rituals

• Event planning and management experience

• Startup experience

Tools & Technologies

• Workable, Asana, Notion, Google Workspace, Slack, Greenhouse or Lever (a plus), HRIS platforms (Rippling, Gusto, Justworks)

Core Competencies

• Bias to action; ships work without hand-holding

• Emotionally secure and ego-free with salary information

• Naturally warm and trust-building with candidates

• Loves details and is stressed without process

• Self-directed with minimal supervision

• Comfortable with async communication

• Scrappy and resourceful in ambiguity

• Unquestionably ethical and discreet

• Genuine curiosity about tech, software, and AI

• Strong judgment in assessing senior talent

What We Offer

• Best salaries in the industry

• Work from anywhere 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.