Senior Talent Specialist

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 a Senior Talent Specialist to play a key role in the final stages of the recruitment process. This role focuses on final-round candidate evaluations, calibration with clients, and matching top-tier candidates to client needs across multiple roles and industries. This position is ideal for someone who has a natural talent for evaluating people, thrives on connecting the right candidates with the right opportunities, and enjoys working across multiple roles and industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct final-round interviews with shortlisted candidates, assessing technical fit and cultural alignment

• Write clear, structured candidate evaluations to support internal decisions and client presentations

• Partner with recruiters and account managers to understand client needs and refine candidate profiles

• Match top candidates to open roles by assessing qualifications, motivations, and long-term fit

• Guide candidates through final stages of the recruitment journey from interview to offer

• Provide timely, thoughtful feedback to candidates; maintain a high bar for candidate experience

• Join calibration discussions to align on hiring bar, expectations, and interview consistency

• Assist with recruitment documentation, tracking systems, and process improvements

• Contribute to special projects: improving interview guides, supporting client feedback loops, updating role requirements

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure cohesive, high-touch hiring

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in recruiting, interviewing, or HR

• Exceptional written and spoken English; ability to lead interviews and write polished assessments

• Genuine interest in recruitment and people evaluation

• Highly organized with strong follow-through and detail orientation

• Team player who thrives in collaborative, fast-moving environments

• Flexible and comfortable working across different tasks, roles, or projects

• Comfortable with email, calendars, and documentation tools; quick to learn new systems

• Ability to work U.S. business hours (PT, CT, or ET)

• Ability to commit long-term and full-time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience interviewing candidates across multiple industries (tech, finance, ops, marketing)

• Experience using ATS platforms (Workable, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby)

• Background in structured behavioral interviewing

Tools & Technologies

• Workable, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Google Workspace, Notion, Slack, Zoom, Calendly, LinkedIn, Loom

Core Competencies

• Strong judgment and intuition in evaluating candidates

• Emotional intelligence and empathy with candidates and clients

• Intellectual curiosity about people and roles

• Resilient through ambiguity and high-volume periods

• Receptive to feedback; growth-oriented

• Proactive and solution-oriented

• Consistently professional

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.