Will Ducey builds talent operations at ElevenLabs. He previously led recruiting operations at Ashby and held talent operations and recruiting leadership roles at Kraken, Automattic, and Toptal.

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Will Ducey builds talent operations at ElevenLabs. He previously led recruiting operations at Ashby and held talent operations and recruiting leadership roles at Kraken, Automattic, and Toptal.

Career

Talent Operations at ElevenLabs from 2026-09 to Present
Head of Recruiting Operations at Ashby from 2025-05 to 2026-06
Senior Recruiting Operations Manager at Kraken from 2022-02 to 2025-04
Head of Operations, Talent Acquisition at Automattic from 2021-05 to 2022-02
Head of Technical Recruiting at Toptal from 2017-08 to 2021-04
North American Sourcing Lead at ThoughtWorks from 2015-09 to 2016-06
Recruiter at TEKsystems from 2010-04 to 2012-06
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Beyond Hires per Recruiter: A smarter way to measure recruiting performance

Will’s framework for comparing recruiting performance using hiring difficulty, team size, and cost.

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Why I start every RecOps role by surveying recruiters

Will explains how he uses time-allocation surveys, visible feedback loops and co-designed improvements to find friction that recruiting dashboards miss.

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