Persona is solving the critical identity challenges that will define our digital economy's future. We’re building a universal and comprehensive identity platform that helps customers like LinkedIn, Travelex, Coursera, Lime, OpenAI, and Twilio fight fraud and stay compliant. Founded in 2018 in San Francisco, and backed by top-tier investors like Founders Fund and First Round Capital, 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
- You’re great with people. You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- You are adaptable. Joining a high-growth, fast-paced company sounds thrilling and exciting to you!
- You’re a team player. You’re willing to work with teams and collaborate closely with many stakeholders. You are opinionated but ultimately flexible to do what the team needs.
- You’re naturally driven. People refer to you as someone who always gets the job done - and fast.
- You’re a full-cycle recruiter. You have 2+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
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.
What We Do
Persona helps businesses manage KYC/AML/KYB programs, fight fraud, and build trust by automating any identity-related use case with our flexible identity infrastructure. For example, we help Branch automate their KYC process and Coursera verify learners’ identities before delivering course credentials.
Beyond securely collecting and verifying user information such as PII, government IDs, and biometric selfies, our platform also provides flexible case review and orchestration tools to help businesses streamline and automate their identity operations — from setting custom rules to ingesting third-party data and triggering external actions.
Why Work With Us
Persona's a leader in identity verification, offering unmatched flexibility to meet diverse business needs. With customizable building blocks, our product adapts to various industries, use cases, and risk levels. Our core value of having a People-first culture thrives on new perspectives that enrich the workplace and support our mission and value.