Last year, 225,988 people applied for a job at ElevenLabs. The AI voice unicorn hired 322 of them, an acceptance rate of just 0.14%.
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January 28, 2026
How to get a job at ElevenLabs: ‘We had 31k inbound applications in a month’
The AI voice unicorn had just three full-time recruiters for most of 2025
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Maya Dharampal-Hornby is a reporter, covering UK tech for Sifted, based in London. She's also the producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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