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. Fortune 500 enterprises, fast-growing startups backed by Sequoia, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz, and high-performing companies of every size in between. 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.

The bar is the highest in the industry. More than 200,000 people apply every month, and fewer than 1 in 2,000 are hired. 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.

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.

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.