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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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From $139K/yr

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GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role The Enablement & GTM AI function is part of the CRO organization. Enablement is instrumental in helping GitLab grow at a more accelerated pace and achieve our ambitious revenue targets. The enablement organization comprises enablement leads serving the CRO business functions, a centralized content group, AI tech resources, and an operations team. This role reports to the Vice President, Enablement & AI Strategy. What You’ll Do Support two VP organizations (New Business and Sales Development/SMB) with all their enablement needs from content build to training delivery to analytics. Deve

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -92.5%

From $170K/yr

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We're transforming the grocery industry At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers. Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table. Instacart is a Flex First team There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work. Why this role is on the menu Eversight, part of Instacart, is building next-generation data insights and analytics platforms that help leading CPGs & Retailers make smarter, faster decisions across pricing, promotions, retail media, and omni-commerce. We're hiring a Senior Revenue Operations Manager to build and run end-to-end revenue operations across our Commercial organization (Sales and Customer Success), spanning both CPG and Retail. This is a build-and-own role, not a request-response one: you'll identify what the business needs before it's escalated to you, bring a recommendation, and drive it to completion. You'll report directly to the Director of Sales Capabilities & Strategy, with broad latitude to design process, own reporting, and act as a trusted partner to commercial leadership across Eversight Sales, Customer Success, and Product, along with

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📍 United States· Full-time· Remote
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Airbnb was born in 2007 when two hosts welcomed three guests to their San Francisco home, and has since grown to over 5 million hosts who have welcomed over 2 billion guest arrivals in almost every country across the globe. Every day, hosts offer unique stays and experiences that make it possible for guests to connect with communities in a more authentic way. The Community You Will Join: BizTech fosters culture and connection at Airbnb by providing reliable corporate tools, innovative products, and technical support for all teams. We drive technical breakthroughs and strategies that redefine what it means to belong anywhere, delivering greater value for the business and our people. The Global Operations team at BizTech manages production services across Airbnb’s corporate environment, delivering reliable operations through Observability, Incident Management, Core Operations, and AI-enabled automation. We partner across BizTech to scale service quality, efficiency, and resilience. The Difference You Will Make: As a Senior Staff Engineer in Operations, you will lead and mentor a high-performing team to scale our AI-enabled operations model and deliver AIOps solutions that streamline operational workstreams and help BizTech teams focus on their core work with confidence. Ops owns triage and resolution, proactive monitoring across networks, systems, applications, and cloud services via a homegrown observability platform, and drives process excellence through automation and shift-left programs. You will set the technical bar, model operational excellence, and ensure high-quality, reliable service. Your scope includes leading projects ac

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📍 United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -95.2%

Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career. About the team Stripe's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet — and we do that responsibly. The User Risk Strategy (URS) function is at the heart of that responsibility: it is the team that defines who Stripe can do business with , on what terms, and how those standards are maintained and enforced at scale. The function sits within the First Line of Defense in Stripe's Risk organization and is the authoritative owner of Stripe's supportability framework. We are looking for a seasoned leader to own and evolve the URS / Supportability function as a Manager of Managers (M2). In this role, you will lead a team of risk strategists and analysts across Ecosystem Strategy, New Product Enablement, User Insights & Enablement, Platform Risk Strategy, and Enforcement & Monitoring Strategy (EMS). You will be a senior leader in the Risk Strategy organization, shaping the direction of Stripe's supportability ecosystem and driving cross-functional decisions that directly influence Stripe's ability to grow safely. In this role, you will report into the Head of Risk Strategy and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Financial Crimes, Financial Partnerships, Operations, and GTM leadership. What you’ll do Responsibilities Strategy & Vision Own the long-term vision and strategy for Stripe's User Risk / Supportability function, ensuring legitimate users can use Stripe while protecting Stripe's financial platform, brand, and regulatory s

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Relocation support. Relocation assistance is stated. This does not establish visa sponsorship.
📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ Quality checkedCompany trend -83.9%

About the Team The Corporate Development team sits at the intersection of OpenAI’s strategy and the global AI ecosystem. Partnering closely with engineering, product, and business leaders, we analyze markets, technologies, and companies to identify opportunities that accelerate OpenAI’s mission and long-term strategy. Bringing together expertise in strategy, M&A, and integration, the team leads the end-to-end process of sourcing, evaluating, negotiating, and integrating acquisitions and other strategic transactions. About the Role The Corporate Development Deal Lead will own high-priority M&A and strategic transaction work from early evaluation through diligence, structuring, negotiation, approval, and close. This person will translate strategic priorities and market insight into actionable deal opportunities, build the business case for transactions, and drive cross-functional alignment with senior stakeholders. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who can combine strategic judgment, financial rigor, founder relationship-building, and crisp execution. The ideal candidate can lead complex transactions, partner well with executive stakeholders, and help build the AI-native systems, tools, and operating practices that allow Corp Dev to scale. This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Lead end-to-end execution of corporate development transactions (e.g., acquisitions and strategic investments), including sourcing, diligence, valuation, structuring, negotiation, and closing. Track and interpret key trends across AI, technology, and adjacent industries, translating the competitive and startup landscape into clear, high-impact insights for OpenAI’s leadership. Proactively source acquisition and other opportunities by building deep relationships across the venture, startup, and incubator ecosystem. Partner closely wi

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📍 United States· Full-time
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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

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -83.9%
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About the Team The Strategic Futures team is a small, research- and writing-focused group exploring how advanced AI could reshape public policy, institutions, and society over the long term. We operate like an internal think tank: developing clear views of desirable long-range outcomes, examining the choices that could make those outcomes more likely, and producing ideas that help OpenAI and the broader public navigate profound technological change. The team is intentionally lean and highly collaborative. Our work draws from public policy, law, economics, political science, history, institutional design, technology, and other relevant disciplines. We partner closely with experts across OpenAI to connect long-range thinking with evolving AI capabilities, organizational priorities, and real-world policy questions. About the Role We are looking for a highly organized and strategic operator to serve as Chief of Staff and Program Manager for the Strategic Futures team. Working closely with the team’s leader, you will translate broad priorities into coordinated execution, establish the systems and operating rhythms that keep a small team performing at a high level, and ensure important work moves forward with clarity and consistency. This is a hands-on role combining chief-of-staff partnership, program management, strategic planning, cross-functional coordination, and communications. You will make it easier for the team to focus on high-quality research and writing by ensuring priorities are clear, decisions are documented, dependencies are visible, collaborators are engaged, and follow-through is reliable. You will also serve as a central connector between Strategic Futures and teams across OpenAI, helping the group build trusted relationships, navigate organizational complexity, and contribute effectively to broader company priorities. In this role, you will: Partner closely with the leader of Strategic Futures to translate the team’s strategic direction into clear prio

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We’re looking for an experienced Executive Assistant to support our CRO and Head of Strategic Sales. This is a highly operational role that goes well beyond calendar management. You’ll own the day-to-day operating rhythm of the Sales organization, ensuring leaders are prepared, priorities stay coordinated, and critical meetings, communications, and follow-ups happen seamlessly. You’ll partner closely with senior sales leaders and serve as a trusted point of coordination for employees, customers, candidates, and external partners. Success in this role comes from exceptional organization, judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to keep many moving pieces aligned in a fast-growing environment. EA to CRO and Head of Strategic Sales Own complex calendar management for the CRO and Head of Strategic Sales, balancing shifting priorities while ensuring time is allocated intentionally Ensure leaders are prepared for every day and every meeting by proactively managing agendas, materials, context, logistics, and follow-ups so time is used effectively and decisions move forward Support forward-looking calendar planning, coordinating recurring operating cadences including pipeline reviews, leadership meetings, QBRs, Sales All Hands, and other cross-functional forums Partner with customers and external partners to coordinate executive meetings, visits, and other engagements Support executive inbox management, helping

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time· Remote
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About the role OpenAI is building a world-class global mobility and immigration program—agile, compliant, technology-enabled, and designed to help exceptional people work where they can have the greatest impact. In this role, you will lead high-impact strategic initiatives, including U.S. permanent residence strategy, M&A, organizational change, and global expansion. This is a senior individual-contributor role for a builder who can translate legal and operational complexity into clear, practical solutions. Reporting to the Head of Global Mobility & Immigration, you will partner with the broader team and lead through expertise and influence across Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, business teams, and external counsel to turn emerging business needs into scalable programs, policies, and durable controls. What you'll do Set the roadmap, principles, governance, and operating model for priority global mobility and immigration initiatives. Lead the U.S. permanent residence strategy, including PERM planning, controls, communications, compliance and continuous improvement. Own immigration and mobility workstreams for M&A, divestitures, restructurings, entity changes, and new-market entry—from diligence through integration. Lead global expansion strategy, ensuring work authorization, business travel, and compliance in rapidly growing international jurisdictions. Build reusable playbooks, decision frameworks, risk assessments, and change-management plans. Partner with Legal, Corporate Development, Recruiting, People, Finance, and business leaders to identify implications early and drive sound decisions. Establish dashboards and program-health measures covering compliance, cycle time, quality, cost, vendor performance, and employee experience. Manage external counsel and vendor partners through clear service levels, quality standards, budgets, and outcomes. Use systems, automation, and AI-enabled tools to improve case handling, documentati

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $1.5B Series F , led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE We are seeking a Sales Manager to help lead a team of Strategic Account Executives. This person will be responsible for building and coaching a team of high-performing sales reps, driving revenue growth, and partnering closely with product and engineering to bring our cutting-edge AI infrastructure to customers. RESPONSIBILITIES Lead and mentor a team of Strategic Account Executives to consistently exceed pipeline and revenue goals. Help define and execution on go-to-market strategy for our fastest growing customer segment. Collaborate cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, and Engineering to align customer needs with Baseten’s product roadmap. Be deeply engaged with the product, enabling reps to have highly technical conversations with prospects and customers. Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and collaboration within the sales team. REQUIREMENTS 6+ years of closing sales experience, with 2+ years in management leading high-performing teams. Strong technical acumen, ideally with background in AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, or developer platforms. Comfortable operating in the weeds with technical products and guiding reps through complex deals. Proven track record of success in Strategic/Enterprise sales environments. Based in San Francisco or New York and open to coming in office at least 3 days per week (Tuesday-Thursday). BENEFITS Competitive compensation, including meaningful equ

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Relocation support. Relocation assistance is stated. This does not establish visa sponsorship.
📍 US; Remote, United States· Full-time· Remote
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -86.4%

From $145.7K/yr

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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . As the Lead Product Analyst- Lifecycle Marketing, you will serve as the strategic analytics partner for lifecycle and CRM initiatives, helping shape retention strategy through cohort-based insights, experimentation, and cross-functional partnership. You will partner deeply with PMM, Product, and Data Science to measure impact, improve lifecycle programs, and identify the highest-leverage opportunities to drive retention. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong analytical rigor, operational execution, and excellent communication skills. You should be comfortable moving from hands-on analysis to clear recommendations, and from detailed experiment readouts to polished presentations for cross-functional and leadership audiences. What you’ll do Be the analytical thought partner for lifecycle, CRM, and retention strategy. Partn

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Relocation support. Relocation assistance is stated. This does not establish visa sponsorship.
📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing the world’s most exceptional talent under one roof to push the boundaries of what’s possible. Our Research Recruiting team plays a critical role in this effort. We are an embedded part of the research organization—working side by side with our research staff to deeply understand evolving priorities, build trust, and strategically shape the future of OpenAI’s talent. About the Role We are looking for a highly strategic recruiter to work closely with the Head of Research Recruiting on a small set of unusually important, high-touch searches and candidate relationships. This role will focus on exceptional talent who does not move through a standard recruiting process: highly visible researchers, technical leaders, operators, and other special-interest candidates where timing, discretion, market intelligence, and tailored engagement matter as much as process execution. This is not a conventional req-based recruiting role. You will help identify where the market is moving, develop intelligence on top talent and competitor activity, translate that intelligence into action, and orchestrate bespoke recruiting strategies for candidates who require a more nuanced path into OpenAI. You should be able to translate these signals and states into clear, actionable advice for leaders and then make it happen. In this role, you will: Partner directly with the Head of Research Recruiting and research leadership team to define priority talent targets and shape bespoke engagement strategies. Build and maintain deep market intelligence across frontier AI, research, engineering, and adjacent talent ecosystems, including competitor movement, candidate motivations, and relationship context. Proactively identify, map, and cultivate exceptional high-profile talent before there is a formal or standard hiring process attached. Translate weak signa

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
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About the team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits all of humanity. Achieving this requires bringing together world-class scientists, engineers, and business leaders to translate frontier research into real-world impact. Within OpenAI, the Go-to-Market organization helps customers understand, adopt, and scale our products across their businesses. The team includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, Partnerships, and Strategic Pursuits professionals who work together to bring the benefits of AI to organizations globally. About the role We are hiring a Senior Specialist Seller to join the Strategic Pursuits team and lead priority opportunities generated through the joint AWS and OpenAI co-sell motion. You will partner closely with Account Directors, AWS field teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify, shape, advance, and close high-value strategic enterprise engagements. This role is ideal for a senior seller with deep experience in enterprise technology, AI, cloud, or complex transformation sales motions. You should be comfortable operating in executive-facing environments, aligning multiple stakeholders, and turning customer priorities into commercially compelling and technically credible opportunities. This role is based in San Francisco, Seattle, or New York. We operate on a hybrid model of 3 days per week in office and offer relocation support. We are also open to remote candidates based in the United States. In this role, you will: Lead commercial execution of priority AWS/OpenAI co-sell opportunities across strategic enterprise accounts. Identify and qualify high-potential opportunities focused on GenAI adoption, frontier platform use cases, and enterprise-wide transformation. Partner with AWS and OpenAI field teams to align account strategy, messaging, stakeholder mapping, and execution plans. Develop customer-facing value propositions that connect OpenAI capabilities with business priorities and

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📍 San Francisco, California, United States· Full-time
✓ High-confidence listingCompany trend -88.6%

$185K – $220K/yr

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Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About the Role: We are seeking a strategic and technically fluent Lead, IT Audit to join our Finance team reporting to the Head of Internal Audit. This is a broad, high-impact role spanning both IT SOX compliance and operational IT audits. You will help establish and elevate our technology controls program end to end — owning the IT SOX lifecycle, designing the IT general and application controls framework, embedding AI and automation into how we test and monitor controls, and delivering value-added operational IT and cybersecurity audits that strengthen how the company builds and runs its systems. You will partner with leaders across Engineering, Security, IT, Finance, and the business to ensure sound technology controls are built into how the company operates as we scale. This role is ideal for someone who thinks like a builder, not just an auditor — someone who can translate complex control and security requirements into practical, scalable processes in a fast-moving SaaS environment with modern cloud architecture and complex data flows. This role can be based in either San Francisco or New York City. We work from our offices on M

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📍 United States· Full-time
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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

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