Talent Lead (AI)

Location: Remote-first and executable from anywhere; working from New York or London is strongly preferred. Office work is available in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw.

Company

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company building voice, chat, speech, music, image, and video platforms for consumers, creators, developers, and businesses.

What you will do

• Lead the Talent function across Research, GTM, Engineering, Product, and G&A hiring.
• Set strategy, manage performance, build recruiter capacity planning, and drive hiring outcomes across verticals.
• Shape Talent Operations through Ashby configuration, headcount tracking, hiring velocity metrics, and recruiter tooling.
• Design next-generation Talent organization structures and AI-enabled recruiting processes.
• Advise department heads and hiring managers using market intelligence, pipeline visibility, and workforce strategy.
• Build the talent brand, improve candidate experience, develop sourcing and events programs, and coach recruiters.

Requirements

• Experience leading large talent acquisition functions at high-growth companies, including hundreds of annual hires across multiple functions and geographies.
• Hands-on recruiting experience and willingness to work directly on critical searches.
• Strong people leadership experience building, developing, and retaining recruiting talent.
• Ability to design and improve systems, tooling, and workflows for a 20–30-person team using AI.
• Experience partnering with People, Finance, RevOps, business leaders, founders, and executives on headcount planning, capacity modelling, compensation, offers, and hiring strategy.
• Evidence of maintaining a high quality-of-hire bar while delivering aggressive hiring volume.
• Experience advising founders and executive leadership on workforce planning and changing plans through informed judgment.
• Recruiting experience across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, with an understanding of market differences.

Culture & Benefits

• High-velocity environment with rapid experimentation, autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
• AI-first approach across engineering, growth, operations, and recruiting.
• Annual discretionary professional development stipend.
• Annual discretionary social travel stipend and annual team offsite.
• Monthly co-working stipend for employees outside main hubs.
• Applications close on 13 November 2026; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.