Technical Recruiter (SF)

About Persona

Persona is the configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world. Verifying individuals and organizations is harder - but more important - than ever, with AI enabling fraudsters to launch sophisticated accounts at scale and regulations evolving rapidly.

We've built Persona to support practically every use case and industry - that's why we're able to serve a wide range of leading companies. For example, Instacart relies on Persona to verify shoppers who onboard onto their platform before delivering groceries to your doorstep. Meanwhile, OpenAI relies on Persona to keep bad actors out, protecting one of the world's most powerful AI platforms from large-scale abuse in a time when AI is reshaping the way we work and live.

We believe that making the internet safer and more human requires a team that reflects the diverse, global nature of the people we aim to serve. We're growing rapidly and looking for exceptional people to join us.

About the Role

As a member of our lean but fierce recruiting team in San Francisco, you will partner with our engineering, design, and product leaders to define their hiring strategy, build candidate pipelines, and grow our technical teams - all while delivering a world class candidate experience. Persona is one of the most unique and innovative companies to recruit for, with our technical team being no exception. We're growing our technical teams rapidly in 2025 - come help us deploy creative hiring strategies to hire the most brilliant people on the planet.

This role is primarily based in our San Francisco office, with required in-office days Tuesday through Thursday. Relocation assistance is available for anyone located outside the San Francisco Bay Area.

What you'll do at Persona

• Full-cycle recruiting : Collaborate with leadership to scope profiles, source, manage and close candidates.
• Thought partnership : Partner closely with engineering and product leadership to understand hiring needs, make hiring recommendations, support events, and build strategy behind technical talent at Persona.
• Drive decisions with data : Use your knowledge of the market and data to provide insights into the health of the hiring pipeline, provide direction, and training to hiring partners.
• Experimentation : Test new ways to optimize our interview processes, internal workflows, and solve for candidate experience.
• Problem solving : Create, recommend, and implement strategies to tackle problems and build pipelines through sourcing, referrals, research, and events.
• DEIB practices : A diverse team will make a stronger company and a safer internet.

What you'll bring to Persona

90,000 - $160,000 a year

Compensation & Equity

This salary range is the estimated base salary range. Base salaries are just one component of the total compensation package and are determined by a number of factors such as years of experience, expertise, qualifications and more. In addition to base salary, we offer competitive equity packages that play a big part in recognizing you for the huge impact you will have on helping us achieve our mission. Please note, the salary range is a guideline that is subject to change without notice.

Benefits and Perks

Persona offers a wide range of thoughtful and inclusive benefits for this role, including medical, dental, and vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipends, wellness benefits, unlimited paid time off, among others. While we believe competitive compensation and benefits are a critical aspect of you deciding to join us, we do hope you consider why our core values and culture are right for you. If you'd like to better understand what it's like working at Persona, feel free to check out our reviews on Glassdoor.

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

At Persona, we strive to put diversity and inclusion at the forefront of everything we do, reflecting our core values. Our DEIB Employee Resource Group seeks to build a diverse and inclusive team that fosters an environment where each Personerd feels empowered to bring their unique differences to work and achieve their full innovative potential. Our hope is that by fostering such an environment, we strengthen our business and relationships by putting people first.

We strive to promote a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusiveness regardless of, but not limited to, race, gender, sexual orientation, family status, religion, ethnicity, national origin, physical disability, veteran status, or age.

Salary : $90,000 - $160,000