Forward Deployed Engineering Recruiter
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What the team is looking for.
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.
Responsibilities:
- 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.
- Technical recruiting
- Full-cycle recruiting
- Search strategy
- Sourcing strategy
- Stakeholder management
- Closing
- Interview design
- Candidate experience
- Data-driven insights
- Global recruiting
- LATAM recruiting
- APAC recruiting
- EMEA recruiting
- High-growth startups
- AI native companies
- Builder’s mindset
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