Global Technical Talent Lead

Overview

Own hiring across Engineering, Product, Design, Research, and Growth worldwide, leading Talent leaders and partnering with senior functional leaders to build the teams powering ElevenLabs.

What you'll do

• Turn engineering priorities into a deliverable global hiring plan by partnering with functional leaders to translate product roadmaps, research priorities, and workforce plans into hiring plans.
• Own Talent capacity allocation, planning, forecasting, and reporting.
• Build and lead a cohesive global recruiting organization, coaching and developing Talent leaders and establishing clear accountability for results.
• Allocate resources across disciplines and markets as priorities change.
• Build shared practices for talent mapping, sourcing, candidate experience, and closing while developing the specialist expertise each talent market requires.
• Define and uphold the hiring bar across technical disciplines by defining excellence by role and level, translating it into success profiles, rigorous assessment, and consistent hiring decisions.
• Equip the team to engage exceptional talent, credibly represent the work, and help candidates understand the opportunity and impact.
• 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 Ops to improve systems, tools, processes, and the use of AI, so hiring is demonstrably faster and more efficient.

What you'll need

• Experience leading Talent through hypergrowth at a company that grew 3x or more in two years, owning delivery of hundreds to thousands of hires annually across multiple regions and time zones.
• Proven track record of managing teams of Talent leaders and delivering business critical hiring across engineering, research, growth, design, and product disciplines.
• 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 the varying talent markets.
• Experience translating changing business and technical priorities into credible hiring forecasts and recruiting capacity plans.
• Use of 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, including raising team performance through coaching.
• Experience partnering with hiring leaders to improve assessments and maintaining a high hiring bar at scale.
• Ability to personally unblock a difficult search or help close an exceptional candidate.

Nice to have

• Preference for candidates based in US East or GMT timezones.

Details

• Remote role that can be executed globally.
• Reports to the Head of Talent.