Compliance Engineer - APAC

About ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is an AI research and product company focused on reshaping how people interact with technology. Founded in January 2023, the company released the first AI voice model that sounds human-like. It now supports millions of users and thousands of businesses, including major enterprises such as Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Backed by leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth, and Sequoia, the company has raised $781M and reached an $11B valuation.

Platforms

• ElevenAgents helps companies create smooth, intelligent customer experiences through the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability needed to run voice and chat agents at scale.
• ElevenCreative gives creators and marketers tools to generate and edit speech, music, images, and video in more than 70 languages.
• ElevenAPI provides developers access to the company’s leading AI audio foundation models.

How We Work

• Fast-moving teams: The company values rapid testing, small autonomous groups, and very little bureaucracy.
• Impact over hierarchy: Titles are not the focus; contribution matters more, and no task is considered too small or too large.
• AI-first mindset: AI is used across the business to work faster and produce better-quality outcomes.
• High standards: The expectation is that every part of the work meets the same quality bar as the AI models themselves.
• Worldwide team: Hiring and collaboration are based on talent rather than geography.

What You Can Expect

• Innovative environment: Join a team working on a rare opportunity to influence the future of AI.
• Room to grow: The role offers broad chances to contribute beyond the immediate job scope.
• Learning support: An annual discretionary allowance is available for professional development.
• Team travel: There is also an annual discretionary stipend for in-person meetups with colleagues.
• Annual offsite: The full company gathers in a different location each year, with previous offsites held in Croatia and Italy.
• Co-working support: A monthly co-working stipend is available for those not based near a main hub.

Role Summary

As a Compliance Engineer for APAC, you will work across teams to support certifications, security frameworks, and regional privacy obligations. The role is centered on helping the business expand its enterprise offering into regulated industries, improving customer trust, and building practical systems that make compliance easier to maintain.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with teams across the company to keep compliance certifications and frameworks current for the APAC region, including standards such as ISO 27001 and regional privacy laws like Australia’s APP and Singapore’s PDPA.
• Contribute to the positioning of the enterprise product for regulated sectors in APAC, especially Finance, Telecommunications, and Government, with particular attention to Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
• Create and maintain technical documentation that clearly demonstrates compliance throughout the product and infrastructure stack.
• Support sales by answering customer security reviews and handling compliance-related questions from clients.
• Perform risk assessments using CIS or ISO 27000 series frameworks, record the results, and help teams move toward compliance efficiently.
• Improve compliance-as-code tooling so monitoring and reporting can be automated and the burden on internal teams is reduced.

Requirements

• Prior experience completing vendor security assessments and customer security questionnaires in regulated APAC industries such as Government, Defense, or Finance, with emphasis on Australia, New Zealand, or Singapore.
• Strong technical background in compliance operations, including hands-on use of compliance management platforms such as Vanta.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain and obtain certifications while keeping audit readiness and supporting documentation in order.
• Experience working with cross-functional partners in sales, engineering, and legal to communicate compliance requirements effectively and keep processes running smoothly.
• Practical knowledge of public cloud compliance across AWS, GCP, or Azure, including automation of compliance workflows in cloud environments.
• Experience integrating compliance tools into CI/CD pipelines to automate monitoring and reporting.

Location

This is a remote-first position and can be done from anywhere in APAC. Availability to work in GMT+8 to GMT+12 is preferred. If desired, you may also work from the Tokyo office.