Global Technical Talent Lead

Location: Remote, globally executable; candidates based in the US East or GMT time zones are preferred. Listed locations: United States, Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

Company

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company building voice, speech, music, image, and video technologies through ElevenAgents, ElevenCreative, and ElevenAPI.

What you will do

• Translate product roadmaps, research priorities, and workforce plans into global hiring plans, including Talent capacity allocation, forecasting, planning, and reporting.
• Build and lead a cohesive recruiting organization across disciplines and markets; coach Talent leaders and allocate resources as priorities change.
• Establish shared practices for talent mapping, sourcing, candidate experience, closing, and specialist expertise across talent markets.
• Define role- and level-specific success profiles, rigorous assessments, and consistent hiring decisions across technical disciplines.
• Run hiring reviews with functional and senior leadership, using market intelligence and funnel data to identify risks and guide location, skills, and interviewer-capacity decisions.
• Partner with Talent Operations to improve hiring systems, tools, processes, and the use of AI.

Requirements

• Experience leading Talent through hypergrowth at a company that grew at least 3x in two years, with responsibility for hundreds to thousands of hires annually across multiple regions and time zones.
• Proven experience managing teams of Talent leaders and delivering business-critical hiring across engineering, research, growth, design, and product.
• Ability to build trust with senior engineering, growth, product, design, and research leaders and advise on talent availability, location, role scope, and assessment.
• Deep expertise in varying talent markets.
• Experience translating changing business and technical priorities into credible hiring forecasts and recruiting capacity plans.
• Ability to use pipeline, conversion, hiring lead-time, and interviewer-capacity data to distinguish achievable commitments from emerging risks and guide resource decisions.
• Strong people leadership combined with deep recruiting expertise, including coaching teams, improving assessments with hiring leaders, and maintaining a high hiring bar at scale.
• Ability to personally unblock difficult searches and help close exceptional candidates.

Culture & Benefits

• High-velocity environment with rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
• AI-first working practices and an emphasis on excellence, impact, and lasting positive results.
• Annual discretionary stipend for professional development and an annual discretionary stipend for social travel with colleagues.
• Annual company offsite and monthly co-working stipend for people not located near a main hub.