Getting rid of job titles was one of ElevenLabs' most polarizing decisions. The unexpected benefit? People who apply for roles without titles self-filter as those who want impact rather than power.

and so are very explicit on our company values and the way that we operate even on the careers page. And those that apply for a role without a title almost self filter, as that type of person that wants to come in for the specific role for the impact rather than overseeing a team and having, power, so to speak. And that spares us a lot of the candidates that wouldn't fit in perfectly very much at the top of funnel. And then we need to do a lot of work throughout the funnel to to fill that out. And sometimes it's heartbreaking to say, like, this person would be perfect, but culturally, they shift something,