Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Forward Deployed Engineering Recruiter role sits at a distinctive seam of the SaaS ecosystem: building teams that operate directly at the customer interface, where product capability meets real-world implementation. ElevenLabs is positioned as an AI product company with multiple platforms and a large user base, so hiring for forward-deployed talent signals a focus on turning advanced technology into deployable, supportable outcomes across varied customer contexts.
For a recruiting professional building a long-term SaaS career, the work develops durable strengths in translating technical depth into hiring signals, shaping search strategy, and partnering closely with engineering and revenue leadership. The emphasis on end-to-end ownership and on improving process through tooling and data mirrors how modern SaaS orgs professionalise talent acquisition as a core operating function, not a service desk.
The role is best suited to someone who enjoys high-judgment searches where candidate evaluation blends engineering credibility with customer-facing aptitude. It will fit a recruiter who prefers structured autonomy, can manage multiple concurrent pipelines, and is comfortable collaborating across time zones in a remote environment while maintaining a consistent candidate experience.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.
We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always.
We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.
How we work
High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.
What we offer
Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
Growth paths: Joining ElevenLabs means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
Learning & development: ElevenLabs proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
Social travel: We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
Co-working: If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.
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.
Location
This role is remote and can be executed globally. However we have a strong preference for LATAM, APAC, and EMEA regions.
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