Forward Deployed Engineering Recruiter

About the role

We're looking for a Technical Recruiter to join our global Talent team at ElevenLabs. This is not a conventional recruiter role — you'll own complex, high-impact technical hiring end to end, with a focus on Forward Deployed Engineering: engineers who work shoulder-to-shoulder with customers, from pre-sales evaluation through post-sales implementation.

You'll shape search strategy, build pipelines at the intersection of deep technical ability and customer-facing craft, and close candidates who are genuinely rare. You'll partner with engineering and revenue leadership to redefine what great FDE hiring looks like at scale, as part of a small, high-bar team with an uncompromising standard for quality of hire.

If you’re energized by ownership, creative problem-solving, and building hiring systems that scale, this role will stretch and level up your career.

What your day might look like

• Owning full-cycle recruiting for highly technical roles across our forward deployment team including solutions engineers and deployment strategists.
• Partnering closely with hiring managers to deeply understand problems, calibrate on signals, and continuously raise the hiring bar.
• Designing and executing thoughtful search strategies — from market mapping and outreach to interview design and closing.
• Managing multiple complex searches simultaneously without sacrificing candidate experience or quality.
• Acting as a trusted advisor to candidates, guiding them through a rigorous process with clarity, empathy, and conviction.
• Serving as an ambassador for ElevenLabs — every interaction reflects our values and sets the tone for the candidate experience.
• Continuously improving how we hire by iterating on processes, tooling, and data-driven insights.

Requirements

• Proven experience hiring top-tier technical and forward deployed talent in competitive markets (we’d love to see ~3+ years, but impact matters more than years).
• Experience running full-cycle technical recruiting, including sourcing strategy, stakeholder management, and closing.
• Strong ability to manage high-complexity searches with many moving parts — you stay structured, adaptable, and focused.
• Skilled at translating technical and business needs into clear hiring strategies and compelling candidate narratives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication — you build trust with both deeply technical candidates and senior stakeholders.
• 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.

Bonus

• Experience recruiting globally across multiple regions, with a particular preference for LATAM, APAC and EMEA.
• Background in high-growth startups, AI native companies, or similarly fast-moving environments.
• A builder’s mindset: you experiment, learn quickly, spot patterns, and continuously refine recruiting playbooks and processes.

LocationThis role is remote and can be executed globally.…