Why they are on the map
VP Ops managing ~64 people; possible home of data ops (surname not shown). source
Owns the human-data budget and vendor list.
How ElevenLabs buys data
Public 'Voice Data Partnerships' program buys conversations, audiobooks, character performances and news audio for base-model training or fine-tuning. Data Operations job: owns end-to-end data acquisition and labelling, 'manage external data vendors', oversee in-house and third-party labelling teams. Voice Curator role (removed Jan 2026) had staff judge voice naturalness/expressiveness. Research Engineer postings cite post-training, data curation and benchmark design.
Research & Research Engineering under co-founder/CTO Piotr Dąbkowski; a Data Ops team sits beside Research translating needs into labelling specs and vendor work; AI Safety org (~17) under VP Artemis Seaford.
Known vendors: unnamed external labelling vendors (per Data Ops job), voice data partners (program)
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