Chief of Staff - Talent

ElevenLabs

4d•Remote

About The Position

ElevenLabs is seeking a Chief of Staff to partner with the Head of Talent in building and scaling its global Talent organization. The role spans GTM, G&A, and Technical recruiting, Talent Operations, and Talent Programs. The Chief of Staff will help shape strategy, turn priorities into action, and lead work requiring talent expertise and focused execution. They will embed with teams where additional leadership or expertise can accelerate progress and own high-visibility projects sponsored by the Head of Talent and senior leadership. The role involves translating Talent strategy into clear plans, ownership, and outcomes; advising on priorities and tradeoffs; aligning Talent leaders and cross-functional partners; and following through on delivery. The Chief of Staff will step into teams or initiatives needing leadership, expertise, or execution capacity, diagnose obstacles, and take responsibility for improving progress while building capability and ensuring sustainable handovers. The position also leads strategic projects from idea to outcome, including sourcing experiments and targeted talent campaigns. The Chief of Staff will shape ideas into focused experiments, execute them, and use evidence to determine what to scale, adapt, or stop. In partnership with Talent leaders, they will improve cross-team decision-making, resolve issues, identify opportunities using hiring data and experience, and help establish repeatable practices, including better use of tools and AI. The role is remote-first and can be performed from anywhere, with preference for candidates in US-East or GMT time zones.

Requirements

Deep talent expertise and experience helping a global organization navigate hypergrowth at scale, including hundreds to thousands of hires annually across multiple regions and time zones.
Understanding of how talent practices and organizations need to evolve as hiring volume, team size, and business complexity increase.
Ability to shape strategy while also delivering work hands-on, advise executives on difficult tradeoffs, build plans from ambiguous briefs, and investigate and solve underlying problems in searches, processes, or teams.
Experience leading teams, functions, or complex talent initiatives with clear accountability for results.
Ability to earn trust quickly, lead through influence or direct ownership, strengthen supported teams, and judge when to step in, coach, or hand ownership back.
Experience delivering high-visibility projects with senior executive stakeholders, bringing structure, pace, and sound judgment to evolving priorities.
Ability to challenge ideas constructively, test them pragmatically, and communicate clearly about progress, results, and decisions needed.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Head of Talent to identify priorities, evaluate tradeoffs, and translate decisions into clear plans, owners, and outcomes.
Bring an informed perspective on where the Talent organization needs to invest or change, build alignment with Talent leaders and cross-functional partners, and follow through on delivery.
Embed with teams or initiatives needing additional leadership, expertise, or execution capacity; diagnose obstacles and take responsibility for improving progress.
Lead hiring initiatives, strengthen processes, or support functions through change, building capability and ensuring clear ownership and sustainable handovers.
Own strategic initiatives sponsored by the Head of Talent and senior leaders, including sourcing experiments and targeted talent campaigns.
Turn early-stage ideas into focused experiments, lead execution, and use evidence to decide what to scale, adapt, or stop.
Partner with Talent leaders to resolve cross-team issues, improve decision-making, and share effective practices.
Use hiring data and direct experience to identify opportunities and turn successful approaches into repeatable ways of working, including better use of tools and AI.