Implementation Engineer, Persona

$100-130k

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.

SQL
Python
Bash
Ruby
Junior and Mid level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area
Persona

Identity verification infrastructure solution

Open for applications

Persona

Identity verification infrastructure solution

201-500 employees

B2BSecurityEnterpriseCompliancePrivacyAPIAutomationIdentity

Open for applications

$100-130k

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.

SQL
Python
Bash
Ruby
Junior and Mid level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

201-500 employees

B2BSecurityEnterpriseCompliancePrivacyAPIAutomationIdentity

Company mission

To create the ideal identity verification experience for your business and customers.

Role

Who you are

  • A minimum of 1-3 years of work experience in a customer-facing role (e.g. Implementation Manager, Customer Success Manager, Onboarding Specialist, Solutions Engineer, and Technical Project Manager)
  • Close cross-functional collaboration with engineering and product
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical and business concepts to technical and non-technical personas
  • Experience with APIs, web development, and writing scripts to build internal tools (e.g. bash scripting, Python, SQL, and Ruby)
  • Project management experience, you set realistic execution expectations and ensure timely project delivery
  • You’re an action-oriented and organized self-starter who isn’t afraid to get scrappy to solve customer issues – you have a strong work ethic and are committed to excellence
  • You have a growth mindset – you are coachable, enjoy learning, are comfortable with ambiguity, and can be flexible in your thinking
  • You’re good at multitasking, prioritizing effectively across a wide variety of tasks and evaluating situational urgency – you thrive under pressure and enjoy clarifying ambiguous situations
  • You have a proven track record of synthesizing customer feedback to provide helpful feedback to cross-functional partners and drive product improvements
  • You have a deep interest in understanding customer needs and are excited to become an expert on Persona’s product
  • Bonus points for experience in the compliance, identity verification, and/or fraud space

What the job involves

  • As an Implementation Engineer, you will be the primary point of contact on a portfolio of implementation projects to support our customers and ensure they reduce time to value and are set up for long-term success
  • You’ll build trusted relationships and ensure timely project delivery and high-quality execution
  • You'll serve as their technical advisor, helping craft solutions to their business needs by leveraging our platform’s capabilities and industry best practices
  • Beyond day-to-day support during onboarding, you'll work closely with product, engineering, and growth serving as the bridge between the technical and customer-facing teams
  • You will partner with the Sales, Solutions Engineering, and Customer Success teams to develop resources and processes to scale implementation support, improve customer education to drive self-serve usage, and create automation to drive repeatable and efficient launches
  • This role will be a key contributor on a fast-growing team, working across Engineering, Product, and Marketing to ensure customers are successful during their initial build and set-up to derive long-term value from the platform
  • Be the customer’s technical point of contact through their initial implementation with Persona. You'll understand their business and technical needs, and help craft customized solutions to drive long-term value
  • You'll be a primary player during onboarding and integration, in some instances, partnering with the Customer Success team to ensure the customer's technical success as they implement with our platform
  • Project manage multiple active implementations from a variety of use-cases and technical scope, while partnering with customer teams of different size and complexity
  • Conduct and lead project kickoffs, discovery sessions, training workshops, escalation calls, and ad hoc meetings as needed
  • Build a deep understanding of customers’ business problems, technical requirements, and success criteria so you can empower them to solve complex business problems
  • Apply your deep technical and customer knowledge to help iterate on and improve internal and external processes. You'll be a trusted advisor - relaying trends and insights from customers to Persona, and from Persona to the customer
  • Update and maintain technical documentation, change logs, and other scalable resources to improve the customer experience during onboarding and drive self-serve customer education
  • Engage with Product, Engineering, and Growth teams to incorporate and prioritize customer feedback to inform the roadmap
  • You will automate processes, and take innovative approaches to problem-solving that will have the power to help shape internal and external decision-making

Our take

Persona enables businesses to verify customer identities, fostering trust in online interactions and aiding in age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. It offers a comprehensive suite of automated identity verification components with worldwide coverage that can be configured, branded, and themed to create custom-tailored flows for any use case

Businesses and governmental organizations can access Persona’s platform via an API, which supports various documents from government-issued IDs to biometrics, ensuring customers are who they claim to be. Persona’s platform also collects passive signals such as a user’s device, location, and behavioral patterns to provide a more holistic risk profile, beneficial in financial and insurance contexts

Recently, Persona partnered with Member Driven Technologies (MDT) to enhance identity verification for credit unions. This partnership enables credit unions to adjust their identity verification flows in real-time based on risk signals, improving user conversion and fraud deterrence. The collaboration aims to streamline operations and strengthen fraud prevention, both digitally and in branches. Since founding, Persona has been scaling its offerings and now boasts a worldwide presence, serving clients in nearly every country and supporting 20 languages.

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Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Sep 2021

$150m

SERIES C

May 2021

$50m

SERIES B

Total funding: $217.6m

Company benefits

  • Professional Development
  • Catered meals
  • Wellness benefit
  • 401(k)
  • Unlimited time off
  • Parental benefits
  • Mental health
  • Health and wellness
  • Bevsday (free drink on Wednesday)
  • Family planning

Company values

  • People first. We will not make decisions that are good for the business but are not good for people — whether those people are our customers, their customers, or our team.
  • Pursue relentlessly high standards. We hold ourselves to a high bar today and a higher one tomorrow. While we celebrate our wins, we constantly strive to raise the bar.
  • Lead by serving. We share early and often to push our work forward, creating a space where it’s ok to ask questions and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
  • Work in public. We encourage collaboration and transparency, sharing early and often to push our work forward. We create a space that makes others comfortable to ask questions, share unfinished thoughts, and show unpolished demos instead of waiting for a perfect spec.
  • Start small, think big. Starting small allows us to provide value while learning lessons without losing sight of our vision.
  • Speed is not a tradeoff. Speed is important, but so is quality. We strive to find ways to optimize and increase both. Going fast does not imply that our quality will suffer. Instead, it means we focus on being more efficient while continuing to operate at a high level.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Maths, Economics at Rice University. KPCB Engineering Fellow, then Engineer at Square.

Studied Computer Science at Brown. Software Engineer at Zynga, and Technical Lead at Dropbox.

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