Global Technical Talent Lead

ElevenLabs

1d•Remote

About The Position

ElevenLabs is seeking a Global Technical Talent Lead to own hiring worldwide across Engineering, Product, Design, Research, and Growth. Reporting to the Head of Talent, this leader will lead Talent leaders and partner with senior functional leaders to build the teams powering the company. The role is accountable for hiring quality, pace, and predictability, and for creating cohesion across hiring strategy, execution, and standards. The role translates product roadmaps, research priorities, and workforce plans into global hiring plans, while owning Talent capacity allocation, planning, forecasting, and reporting. It leads and develops a cohesive global recruiting organization, establishes accountability, allocates resources across disciplines and markets, and develops shared practices for talent mapping, sourcing, candidate experience, and closing. The Global Technical Talent Lead defines and upholds hiring standards across technical disciplines, partnering with functional leaders on role- and level-specific success profiles, assessments, and consistent hiring decisions. The role also establishes hiring reviews with functional and senior leadership, uses market intelligence and funnel data to assess delivery and risks, and partners with Talent Operations to improve systems, tools, processes, and AI use so hiring becomes faster and more efficient. The position is remote and can be performed globally, with preference for candidates based in US East or GMT time zones.

Requirements

Led Talent through hypergrowth at a company that grew at least 3x in two years.
Owned delivery of hundreds to thousands of hires annually across multiple regions and time zones.
Proven track record managing teams of Talent leaders and delivering business-critical hiring across engineering, research, growth, design, and product.
Ability to 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.
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 times, and interviewer capacity to distinguish achievable commitments from emerging risks and guide resource decisions.
Strong people leadership combined with deep recruiting expertise.
Experience improving team performance through coaching, partnering with hiring leaders to improve assessments, and maintaining a high hiring bar at scale.

Responsibilities

Translate product roadmaps, research priorities, and workforce plans into a deliverable global hiring plan.
Own Talent capacity allocation, planning, forecasting, and reporting.
Lead, coach, and develop Talent leaders; establish accountability for results and allocate resources across disciplines and markets as priorities change.
Build shared recruiting practices for talent mapping, sourcing, candidate experience, and closing while developing specialist expertise for different talent markets.
Partner with functional leaders to define excellence by role and level and establish clear success profiles, rigorous assessments, and consistent hiring decisions.
Equip the recruiting team to engage exceptional talent, represent the work credibly, and communicate the opportunity and its impact to candidates.
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 Operations to improve hiring systems, tools, and processes and increase the effective use of AI.
Personally unblock difficult searches or help close exceptional candidates when needed.