Senior Recruiter - Operations and Corporate

Job Title: Senior Recruiter – Operations & Corporate

Department: People Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

FLSA: Exempt

Location: Houston, TX – Onsite

Who We Are

Persona AI is developing and commercializing rugged, multi-purpose humanoid robots that perform real work. Persona AI founding team has a decades-long history in humanoid robotics, bionics, and product development delivering robust hardware that has touched the stars, worked miles below the surface of the ocean, and even roamed Disney Parks.

Our mission is focused squarely on shipping beautiful, reliable products at massive scale, while building a customer-focused team to achieve these aims.

Why Join Persona?

• We offer competitive compensation, a performance-based bonus, 99% employer covered medical benefits, early-stage equity, competitive PTO, and a company-wide paid winter break consisting of seven consecutive days off between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
• You’ll shape technology that’s redefining the possibilities of robotics and human interaction.
• Work alongside passionate teammates who value creativity, and continuous learning.
• Enjoy full access to best-in-class sourcing tools, a strong employer brand, and the autonomy to build our recruiting function from the ground up.

About the Role

We are looking for a driven Talent Acquisition Sourcer / Partner to join our Houston team. This is a builder role — you’re not stepping into a mature TA function with established pipelines and playbooks. You’re building it. We need someone who comes from a staffing agency background, knows how to source aggressively, and can fill hard-to-find manufacturing and operations roles without hand-holding.

You’ll own full-cycle sourcing and recruiting across manufacturing, operations, and corporate (G&A) functions, partnering directly with hiring managers to move fast and close great talent.

This position is completely onsite at our corporate office in Houston, five days a week. In this role, you’ll be the recruiting engine driving our expanding corporate, manufacturing, and operations teams in Texas and beyond.

What You Will Be Doing

• 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.

What We Are Looking For

• 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; this role is fully onsite and

Bonus Skills

• 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.

Persona AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.