Global Technical Talent Lead

About ElevenLabs ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology. We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses – from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world’s most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We’ve raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $22B – multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms: • ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale. • ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages. • ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models. Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team – builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you. How we work • High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy. • Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you. • AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations. • Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models. • Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location. What we offer • Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. • Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact – beyond your immediate role and responsibilities. • Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend. • Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose. • Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location – past offsites have included Croatia and Italy. • Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend. About the role We are looking for a Global Technical Talent Lead to own hiring across Engineering, Product, Design, Research, and Growth worldwide. Reporting to the Head of Talent, you will lead Talent leaders and partner with senior engineering, growth, and research leaders to build the teams powering ElevenLabs. Your mandate is to bring cohesion to hiring strategy, execution, and standards across this portfolio, with accountability for hiring quality, pace, and predictability. • Turn engineering priorities into a deliverable global hiring plan. Partner with functional leaders to translate product roadmaps, research priorities, and workforce plans into hiring plans. Own Talent capacity allocation, planning, forecasting, and reporting. • Build and lead a cohesive global recruiting organization. Coach and develop Talent leaders, establish clear accountability for results, and allocate resources across disciplines and markets as priorities change. Build shared practices for talent mapping, sourcing, candidate experience, and closing while developing the specialist expertise each talent market requires. • Define and uphold the hiring bar across technical disciplines. Partner with functional leaders to define excellence by role and level, translating it into clear success profiles, rigorous assessment, and consistent hiring decisions. Equip the team to engage exceptional talent, credibly represent the work, and help candidates understand the opportunity and impact. • Make hiring performance visible and predictable. Establish regular hiring reviews with functional and senior leadership to track delivery, surface risks, and resolve decisions. Use market intelligence and funnel data to advise on location strategy, skill availability, and interviewer capacity. Partner with Talent Ops to improve systems, tools, processes, and the use of AI, so hiring is demonstrably faster and more efficient. Requirements • You have led Talent through hypergrowth at a company that grew 3x or more in two years, owning delivery of hundreds to thousands of hires annually across multiple regions and time zones. You have a proven track record of managing teams of Talent leaders and delivering business critical hiring across engineering, research, growth, design, and product disciplines. • You can earn the trust of senior engineering, growth, product, design, and research leaders, partner on hiring decisions, and advise on talent availability, location, role scope, and assessment. You have deep expertise in the varying talent markets. • You have translated changing business and technical priorities into credible hiring forecasts and recruiting capacity plans. You use pipeline, conversion, hiring lead times, and interviewer capacity to distinguish achievable commitments from emerging risks and guide resource decisions. • You combine strong people leadership with deep recruiting expertise. You have raised team performance through coaching, partnered with hiring leaders to improve assessments, and maintained a high hiring bar at scale. You can personally unblock a difficult search or help close an exceptional candidate. Location This role is remote and can be executed globally. Preference for candidates based in US East or GMT timezones. #LI-Remote We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.