Talent Operations Lead

Role Description

ElevenLabs is growing fast — and as head of Talent Operations, you'll be the strategic force that makes that growth possible at scale. This isn't a support role. You'll own the infrastructure, tooling, strategy, and team that power how ElevenLabs hires across every function and every market.

You'll work directly with the Head of Talent and senior leadership to translate hiring ambitions into operational reality — whether that's standing up a specific hiring programme across new markets, designing the frameworks that make our interviewers more calibrated, or architecting the integration between our HRIS and ATS to eliminate manual work at scale. The problems are large, the autonomy is real, and the impact is immediate. This role requires you to be an IC as well as a lead, driving the team forward whilst having the technical aptitude and attitude to dive into topics and help the team build solutions.

• Own the end-to-end talent technology stack — leading vendor strategy, managing relationships, making build vs. buy decisions, and ensuring tools are configured, integrated, and used to their full potential.
• Identify, design and drive org-wide hiring programmes and frameworks — from interview evaluation systems, to our headcount planning solution and multi-market hiring playbooks.
• Lead and develop a team of Talent Operators and Coordinators, setting direction, managing priorities, and creating the conditions for the team to operate at pace without sacrificing quality or candidate experience.
• Own the talent data strategy — defining what we measure, building dashboards and reports that surface what matters, and making sure the whole team is working from the same picture.
• Act as the strategic interface between Talent and cross-functional partners across People, Finance, Legal, and Engineering, managing complex stakeholder relationships and unblocking hiring at every level.
• Identify and eliminate operational drag — building durable SOPs, designing scalable processes, and deploying automation (n8n, AI tooling, custom integrations) wherever it meaningfully reduces friction.
• Own core functional processes such as headcount planning.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading talent operations or other operational function at a high-growth technology company, ideally through a period of significant scale.
• Strong strategic thinking — you can zoom out to design a programme across ten markets and zoom back in to make a tactical call on an ATS configuration the same day.
• Deep experience owning or significantly influencing a recruiting tech stack; you understand how ATS pipelines, HRIS integrations, and data flows connect, and you can drive decisions across all of them.
• Track record building and leading teams — you know how to set direction clearly, develop people, and hold a high bar without micromanaging.
• Exceptional stakeholder management — you've worked closely with senior cross-functional leaders and know how to move fast without leaving people behind.
• A builder's instinct — you default to systemic solutions over one-off fixes, and you're comfortable driving automation and tooling decisions hands-on, not just in concept.

Requirements

• Experience designing and running multi-market or international hiring programmes.
• Comfort with workflow automation tools (n8n, Zapier, or similar) or building lightweight technical solutions yourself.
• Prior experience working in or alongside a fast-scaling AI or deep tech company.

Benefits

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

Company Description

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 $11B - 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.