Talent Operations Lead

ElevenLabs ElevenLabs · AI Frontier · United Kingdom · Operations

This role is for a Talent Operations Lead at an AI company. The individual will own the talent technology stack, design hiring programs, lead a team, manage talent data strategy, and interface with cross-functional partners. The role requires strategic thinking, experience with recruiting tech stacks, team leadership, and stakeholder management. The company emphasizes using AI across all functions to improve efficiency and quality.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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.
  2. Identify, design and drive org-wide hiring programmes and frameworks — from interview evaluation systems, to our headcount planning solution and multi-market hiring playbooks.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

Skills

Required

  • Talent Operations leadership
  • Recruiting technology stack management (ATS, HRIS integrations)
  • Hiring program design and execution
  • Team leadership and development
  • Data strategy and dashboarding
  • Stakeholder management
  • Process design and automation
  • Strategic thinking
  • Vendor management
  • Build vs. buy decisions

Nice to have

  • Experience with n8n or similar automation tools
  • Experience with AI tooling in operations

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic force that makes that growth possible at scale
  • own the infrastructure, tooling, strategy, and team
  • translate hiring ambitions into operational reality
  • standing up a specific hiring programme across new markets
  • designing the frameworks that make our interviewers more calibrated
  • architecting the integration between our HRIS and ATS
  • eliminate manual work at scale
  • problems are large
  • autonomy is real
  • impact is immediate
  • drive the team forward
  • technical aptitude and attitude to dive into topics and help the team build solutions
  • talent technology stack
  • build vs. buy decisions
  • org-wide hiring programmes and frameworks
  • interview evaluation systems
  • headcount planning solution
  • multi-market hiring playbooks
  • Lead and develop a team
  • talent data strategy
  • talent and cross-functional partners
  • managing complex stakeholder relationships
  • unblocking hiring at every level
  • Identify and eliminate operational drag
  • building durable SOPs
  • designing scalable processes
  • deploying automation (n8n, AI tooling, custom integrations)
  • meaningfully reduces friction
  • Own core functional processes such as headcount planning
  • thrives in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment
  • making talent operations run like a well-oiled machine
  • Proven experience leading talent operations or other operational function at a high-growth technology company
  • period of significant scale
  • Strong strategic thinking
  • zoom out to design a programme across ten markets
  • zoom back in to make a tactical call on an ATS configuration
  • Deep experience owning or significantly influencing a recruiting tech stack
  • drive decisions across all of them
  • Track record building and leading teams
  • set direction clearly
  • develop people
  • hold a high bar without micromanaging
  • Exceptional stakeholder management
  • worked closely with senior cross-functional leaders
  • move fast without leaving people behind
  • A builder's instinct
  • default to systemic solutions over one-off fixes