Associate Recruiter, University Hiring

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own Persona's internship program end to end, from headcount planning with hiring managers through offer, onboarding, and end-of-summer conversion to full-time.
• Run full-cycle recruiting for intern and new-grad roles across disciplines such as mechanical, electrical, software, robotics, controls, manufacturing, and corporate functions.
• Build and maintain a target school strategy, developing relationships with career centers, engineering faculty, research labs, and student organizations.
• Source standout students beyond career fairs: robotics competition teams, hackathons, student research, GitHub projects, and engineering societies.
• Plan and represent Persona at career fairs, info sessions, tech talks, lab tours, and conferences, both on campus and at our Houston facility.
• Screen candidates for technical fundamentals, hands-on project experience, and genuine excitement about building robots.
• Design the intern experience in partnership with hiring managers and People Operations, including onboarding, cohort events, mentorship, and final project showcases.
• Track program results such as applicant flow, offer acceptance, intern satisfaction, and return-offer conversion, and use them to make each cohort better than the last.

Job requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in recruiting, university relations, recruiting coordination, or a closely related role. Experience in an in-house recruiting team is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with campus or early-career recruiting, such as running career fairs, managing intern hiring, or building school relationships.
• Exceptional organization and follow-through, with the ability to manage a busy interview calendar and a program pipeline at the same time without letting anything drop.
• Comfort managing calendars across multiple stakeholders, time zones, and production shift schedules, with sound judgment about when to solve something yourself and when to escalate.
• Clear, warm written and verbal communication with students, faculty, candidates, hiring managers, and cross-functional teams.
• Confidence presenting to groups and representing a company on campus.
• A proactive, service-minded approach and genuine care for the experience of everyone who moves through our process.
• Comfort working in ambiguity where processes are still being built, and eagerness to help build them.