Technical Recruiter

ElevenLabs ElevenLabs · AI Frontier · United Kingdom · Operations

Technical Recruiter role at ElevenLabs, an AI research and product company. The role involves owning full-cycle technical recruiting for roles across product engineering, ML/AI, infrastructure, and research. It requires partnering with hiring managers, designing search strategies, managing complex searches, and acting as a trusted advisor to candidates. The company emphasizes a high-velocity, AI-first, and excellence-driven culture.

What you'd actually do

  1. Owning full-cycle recruiting for highly technical roles across product engineering, ML/AI, infrastructure, research, and beyond.
  2. Partnering closely with hiring managers to deeply understand problems, calibrate on signals, and continuously raise the hiring bar.
  3. Designing and executing thoughtful search strategies — from market mapping and outreach to interview design and closing.
  4. Managing multiple complex searches simultaneously without sacrificing candidate experience or quality.
  5. Acting as a trusted advisor to candidates, guiding them through a rigorous process with clarity, empathy, and conviction.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience hiring top-tier engineering and technical talent in competitive markets
  • Experience running full-cycle technical recruiting, including sourcing strategy, stakeholder management, and closing
  • Strong ability to manage high-complexity searches with many moving parts
  • Skilled at translating technical and business needs into clear hiring strategies and compelling candidate narratives
  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, remote-first environments and collaborating across global time zones
  • Curious, creative, and genuinely interested in engineering, AI, and how exceptional teams are built

Nice to have

  • Experience hiring for research, infrastructure, systems, or other deeply technical roles
  • Experience recruiting globally across multiple regions
  • Background in high-growth startups or similarly fast-moving environments
  • A builder’s mindset: you experiment, learn quickly, spot patterns, and continuously refine recruiting playbooks and processes

What the JD emphasized

  • high-impact technical hiring
  • re-imagine what great technical hiring looks like at scale
  • deep technical specialization
  • high velocity
  • uncompromising bar
  • building hiring systems that scale
  • top-tier engineering and technical talent
  • high-complexity searches
  • deeply technical candidates
  • fast-paced, remote-first environments
  • engineering, AI
  • deeply technical roles