Senior Recruiter - Operations and Corporate

Persona AI Inc • Houston, TX

27d • Onsite

About The Position

Persona AI is seeking a driven Talent Acquisition Sourcer / Partner to join their Houston team. This is a builder role where the individual will be responsible for establishing and growing the Talent Acquisition function. The ideal candidate will have a background in staffing agencies, possess strong sourcing skills, and be able to fill hard-to-find manufacturing and operations roles independently. The role involves full-cycle sourcing and recruiting for manufacturing, operations, and corporate (G&A) functions, requiring close partnership with hiring managers to ensure rapid hiring of top talent. This position is entirely onsite at the corporate office in Houston, five days a week, and will serve as the primary recruiting engine for the expanding corporate, manufacturing, and operations teams.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of recruiting experience, with the majority spent at a staffing agency, not purely corporate TA.
• Demonstrated track record of filling corporate, manufacturing, shop-floor, and operations roles at volume under real time-to-fill pressure.
• Expert-level Boolean search skills and fluency across LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing channels beyond traditional job boards.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and building from scratch; effective without a fully mature TA function and able to help create one.
• Strong candidate engagement skills, including getting responses from passive candidates and successfully closing them.
• Ability to manage multiple reqs simultaneously without losing quality or velocity on any single search.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including compelling outreach copy, sharp intake conversations, and clear internal updates to hiring managers.
• Must currently reside in the Houston, TX metro area.

Nice To Haves

• Prior recruiting experience in manufacturing, industrial, automotive, aerospace, or other high-volume production environments.
• Existing relationships within the Houston manufacturing, industrial, or operations talent community.
• Familiarity with ATS platforms such as Ashby, Rippling, or similar.
• Experience building or contributing to TA infrastructure at an early-stage or Series A/B startup.
• Experience recruiting for organizations with 50–300 employees in a high-growth environment.
• Comfort operating in a startup or high-growth manufacturing environment where processes are still being built and ambiguity is the norm.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle sourcing and recruiting for manufacturing and shop-floor roles (technicians, assemblers, process engineers, quality engineers, industrial engineers) and corporate and G&A hires as needed.
• Build and manage active candidate pipelines from scratch using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, trade schools and technical/vocational programs, local manufacturing and industry networks, employee referrals, and any other effective channels.
• Partner directly with hiring managers to deeply understand role requirements, calibrate on candidate quality quickly, and iterate profiles in real time.
• Leverage Houston’s deep manufacturing and operations talent pool, including energy, industrial, and aerospace crossover talent, and help build the company's presence in the local manufacturing and operations community.
• Deliver a best-in-class candidate experience from first outreach through offer, recognizing the importance of your role as the first impression of Persona AI.
• Track and report on pipeline health, time-to-fill, and sourcing metrics; use data to continuously improve your approach.
• Help build and refine TA infrastructure, including interview processes, scorecards, ATS hygiene, and offer templates as the company scales.
• Support employer branding efforts (job post copy, LinkedIn presence, candidate messaging) to position Persona AI as a destination for top manufacturing, operations, and corporate talent.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Performance-based bonus
• 99% employer covered medical benefits
• Early-stage equity
• Competitive PTO
• Company-wide paid winter break consisting of seven consecutive days off between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed