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# Talent Lead at ElevenLabs

- **Company:** [ElevenLabs](https://feeny.ai/companies/elevenlabs)
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elevenlabs/34e2d52b-f57a-4833-87a1-0a7b0c4c5532

## Job description

## 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 team offsite: Each year, we bring your entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia, Italy and Cancún
- Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.

## About the role

ElevenLabs has grown to over 1,000 in three years, and the rate of growth is not slowing down. As Talent Lead, you will be in charge of one of the most visible and impactful functions in the company: hundreds of hires a quarter across Research, Engineering, GTM and Operations, in one of the most competitive talent markets in history. You’ll move Talent from a high-volume recruiting engine to a strategic partner that tells leaders what is achievable, and you’ll rebuild how we hire using the same AI products we make. You'll run the entire Talent team (currently 20 - 30 recruiters, sourcers, and talent operations) across verticals, setting the strategy, building the systems, and staying hands-on where it matters. You'll report directly to the Operations Lead and be a close partner to the People team. This isn't a pure executive role - we want someone who still loves the craft of recruiting and can model what great looks like for the team around them. The right person has done this before at scale - at a company that grew fast and hired harder. Your team will look to you not just for direction, but as someone they can genuinely learn from. This will be an opportunity to shape the direction of Talent at ElevenLab; where we go, how we get there and who we get there with. If you want to shape the future of the Talent industry by building industry-defining playbooks using the latest technology and AI solutions, whilst building an expert team - this might be your best fit yet. In this role you will:

- Lead the full talent function across Research, GTM, Engineering & Product, and G&A hiring - setting strategy, managing team performance, building a recruiter capacity engine, and driving outcomes across all verticals.
- Shape Talent Operations: ATS (Ashby) configuration, headcount tracking, hiring velocity metrics, and recruiter tooling - ensuring the function runs with precision and minimal friction.
- Identify innovative ways of approaching Talent: design the next-gen Talent org structure, envision how Talent processes can be agentified and work with the team to build ElevenLabs products throughout.
- Act as a strategic partner to department heads and hiring managers, bringing market intelligence, pipeline health visibility, and honest counsel on what it takes to consistently win the best people in the market.
- Build and maintain a strong talent brand through thoughtful candidate experience, community engagement, building a Talent events program and creative sourcing strategies.
- Coach and develop a team of recruiters, establishing clear standards for quality of hire, speed, and candidate experience.
- Partner with functional leaders across Research, Engineering, GTM, and Operations - acting as a trusted advisor who can challenge, align, and mobilize leaders around talent priorities and workforce strategy.

We’re moving quickly on this search. Applications close on 13 November 2026, and we’ll start reviewing right away, so we’d encourage you to apply early.

## Requirements

- Proven track record leading large TA functions at high-growth companies, with direct experience filling hundreds of roles per year across multiple functions and geographies.
- Hands-on recruiting instincts - comfortable being in the weeds on critical searches, not just managing from a distance.
- Strong people leader who builds, develops, and retains recruiting talent.
- Sharp on process: able to design and iterate on systems, tooling, and workflows that make a team of 20–30 perform at a high level with AI.
- Close collaborator with People, Finance, and business leaders - comfortable operating at the intersection of headcount planning, compensation, and hiring strategy.
- Held a high bar for quality of hire while hitting aggressive volume, with the metrics to show it.
- Advised founders and executive suite on workforce planning, and changed a plan with your judgment.
- Worked with Finance, People and RevOps on headcount planning, capacity modelling, compensation and offer strategy.
- Has recruited across the Americas, EMEA and APAC and understands the differences between markets.

Location This role is remote-first, so it can be executed from anywhere, with the ability to operate from New York or London strongly preferred. If you prefer, you can work from our offices in London, New York, San Francisco, and Warsaw.

#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.

## About ElevenLabs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company specializing in ultra-realistic voice synthesis, conversational agents, and creative media generation (speech, music, video).
- **Entity Type**: Private – Growth-stage startup
- **Headquarters**: New York, USA (with major hubs in London, UK and Warsaw, Poland)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Piotr Krzysztof Kozak (CEO) and Michał Krzysztof Kozak (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Voice AI, Speech Synthesis, Conversational AI, Creative Media Generation (audio, video, music)
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises, developers) and B2C (creators, content producers); serves both large enterprises (Disney, Cisco, Salesforce, Nvidia, Meta) and individual users.
- **Mission/purpose**: “To make communication and creation with technology seamless” – building foundational voice models and expanding into transcription, music, image and video generation with safety built‑in.

## Products & Services
- **[ElevenAgents](https://elevenlabs.io)**: Conversational AI agents that talk, type, and take action across phone, chat, email, and WhatsApp. Includes guardrails, workflow orchestration, analytics, and omnichannel deployment. Used for customer experience and enterprise automation.
- **[ElevenCreative](https://elevenlabs.io)**: All‑in‑one creative platform for generating and editing speech, music (Eleven Music), sound effects (SFX), dubbing, images, and video – supporting 70+ languages. Ideal for marketers, podcasters, filmmakers, and audiobook producers.
- **[ElevenAPI](https://elevenlabs.io)**: Developer‑facing APIs providing access to foundational models – Text to Speech (multiple tiers: v3, Turbo v2, Flash v2.5, Multilingual v2), Speech to Text (Scribe v2, Scribe v2 Realtime), Music, Dubbing, and Voice Cloning.
- **Safety & Impact Program**: Free licenses for accessibility and nonprofits; dedicated safety team with multi‑layered safeguards (moderation, accountability, provenance).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: **$500M Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)** as of May 2026 ([elevenlabs.io/about](https://elevenlabs.io/about)).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by BlackRock, NVIDIA, Jamie Foxx, Eva Longoria. Strategic partners include Twilio, Disney, KPN, Telus Digital, Cisco, Epic Games, Revolut, Meta, Bertelsmann, Deutsche Telekom, Deliveroo, Chess.com, Harvey, Salesforce, and the UK Government.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Crossed $500M ARR and continues rapid growth.
  - Headcount growth of +170.6% year‑over‑year (as per LinkedIn job posting trends).
  - Expanded hubs in New York, London, Warsaw; opening in California adding 173 high‑paying jobs.
  - Strategic partnerships with governments (UK, Poland) and major IP owners (Hasbro, Stan Lee estate).
  - Released multiple new models in 2025–2026 (Scribe v2, Music v2, new agent features).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary foundational models**: First human‑like voice model, now the most realistic TTS and ASR, trained on licensed data with full commercial use.
- **Multi‑platform reach**: Combines agent, creative, and API products – offering end‑to‑end solutions from voice to video.
- **Ultra‑low latency**: 75ms for conversational use cases; rated #1 TTS by independent benchmarks.
- **Built‑in safety**: Dedicated safety team with enforcement, provenance, and moderation systems – a core differentiator in AI trust.
- **Global distribution**: 30+ countries, 70+ languages, strong enterprise adoption.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expanding beyond voice**: Into music, transcription, video, and image generation – becoming a broad AI media platform.
- **Enterprise and government**: Deepening relationships with public sector (UK, Poland) and large enterprises (Disney, Cisco, Salesforce).
- **Agentic AI**: Scaling ElevenAgents for customer service and automation with strong reliability and compliance guardrails.
- **Safety leadership**: Continually investing in misuse prevention and ethical AI deployment.
- **Geographic growth**: Opening US hub in California, expanding in Australia/NZ, and growing London HQ.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture values**: High ownership, lean teams, rapid experimentation, asynchronous excellence, and “the best idea wins” ethos. Described as “building the best work of their lives” by a team of researchers, engineers, and operators (IOI medalists, ex‑founders).
- **Global & remote‑friendly**: Team spans 30+ countries with hubs in NY, London, and Warsaw; remote‑first with intentional asynchronous communication to minimize meetings.
- **Growth & impact**: Join at a high‑velocity stage – $500M ARR, 170% headcount growth. Employees work alongside AI leaders and shape the future of human‑technology interaction.
- **Perks & offerings**: Competitive compensation, equity, high autonomy, and opportunities to wear many hats. Strong emphasis on continuous growth and learning.
- **Ethical focus**: A chance to work on world‑changing AI with built‑in safety – for those who care about responsible innovation.

## Sources
1. [elevenlabs.io](https://elevenlabs.io/) – Main site (products, partners, models)
2. [elevenlabs.io/careers](https://elevenlabs.io/careers) – Careers page (culture, values, global team)
3. [elevenlabs.io/about](https://elevenlabs.io/about) – About page (ARR, investors, history, impact)
4. [linkedin.com/company/elevenlabsio](https://www.linkedin.com/company/elevenlabsio) – LinkedIn (headcount growth, job postings, employee breakdown)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/elevenlabs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elevenlabs/) – Active job openings (92 positions)

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