Global Technical Talent Lead

About the role

We are looking for a Global Technical Talent Lead to own hiring across Engineering, Product, Design, Research, and Growth worldwide. Reporting to the Head of Talent, you will lead Talent leaders and partner with senior engineering, growth, and research leaders to build the teams powering ElevenLabs. Your mandate is to bring cohesion to hiring strategy, execution, and standards across this portfolio, with accountability for hiring quality, pace, and predictability.

• Turn engineering priorities into a deliverable global hiring plan. Partner 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. Coach and develop Talent leaders, establish clear accountability for results, and 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. Partner with functional leaders to define excellence by role and level, translating it into clear 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.
• Make hiring performance visible and predictable. 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.

Requirements

• You have led 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. You have a proven track record of managing teams of Talent leaders and delivering business critical hiring across engineering, research, growth, design, and product disciplines.
• You can 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. You have deep expertise in the varying talent markets.
• You have translated changing business and technical priorities into credible hiring forecasts and recruiting capacity plans. You use pipeline, conversion, hiring lead times, and interviewer capacity to distinguish achievable commitments from emerging risks and guide resource decisions.
• You combine strong people leadership with deep recruiting expertise. You have raised team performance through coaching, partnered with hiring leaders to improve assessments, and maintained a high hiring bar at scale. You can personally unblock a difficult search or help close an exceptional candidate.

Location

This role is remote and can be executed globally. Preference for candidates based in US East or GMT timezones.