FDE Dispatch: ElevenLabs Forward Deployed Engineer index, October 24, 2026 snapshot Files fde-elevenlabs-2026-10-24.json aggregate figures for ElevenLabs's 12 FDE-family postings: title tracks (Deployment Strategist, Deployment Strategist Lead, Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Engineer), published engineer requirements that hold up against the posting texts vs all 563 engineer-title postings, a caveat on the unreliable customer_facing keyword flag, strategist requirement figures from 7 of 8 retrieved texts (October 28, 2026), years stated, US vs outside-US, remote-listed, workplace field, travel (no percentage stated), no posted pay, and equity mentions Used on https://fdedispatch.com/elevenlabs-forward-deployed-engineer/ Population The 12 ElevenLabs rows with in_page_stats = true among the 725 postings from 121 employers counted on the salary, job titles, locations and travel pages (rows with in_page_stats = true in fde-postings-2026-10-24.csv in this folder). All 12 come from ElevenLabs's public Ashby board, pulled October 24, 2026. 8 are deployment_strategist titles and 4 are engineer-family titles. Strategists outnumber engineers 8 to 4 (2 to 1). ElevenLabs ranks eighth by posting count at 12 (alone; Cognition has 15, LangChain 17). This is a small sample. Method Built by scripts/build-elevenlabs-aggregate.py from fde-postings-2026-10-24.json, fde-locations-2026-10-24.json (rows matched on posting URL) and fde-skills-2026-10-25.csv (the requirements index; posting text re-fetched October 25, 2026; the 4 engineer-title ElevenLabs postings are in it). Strategist requirement figures are hand-verified from posting texts re-fetched October 28, 2026 for 7 of 8 strategist rows (Deployment Strategist - South Korea text was not retrieved). Track: title text. Deployment Strategist (6 country seats); Deployment Strategist Lead (2); Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Engineer (4). Buckets sum to 12 (6 / 2 / 4). US vs outside the US and remote-listed: the published locations-index definitions (US-located = every listed location in the US; remote-listed = board marks remote or a listed location contains Remote). Buckets sum to 12 (2 US / 10 outside). 9 list remote. Workplace is Remote on those 9 and blank on the other 3 (Argentina Deployment Strategist, Chile Deployment Strategist, Argentina Forward Deployed Engineer). Engineer requirements: only python and apis are published as ElevenLabs comparisons (4 of 4). The customer_facing keyword flag undercounts relative to the posting texts, so it is recorded under unreliable_keyword_flags and is not used as a published comparison. ElevenLabs has 4 rows in the index (under the 10+ employer rank cut). A mention is not a hard requirement. Strategist requirements (denominator 7 texts): python 7, apis 7, agents 5, llm_genai 5, customer_facing 5; years minimum 3 on the 5 country Deployment Strategist texts. The automated travel flag overcounts on Deployment Strategist Lead - USA (Social travel stipend only), so travel is not published as 7 of 7; hand-read customer-onsite travel is 6 of 7. Travel: all 12 rows have travel_mentioned = true; none state a percentage. No pay range is listed on any of the 12; equity_mentioned is false on all 12. Caveats Counts are open postings on a public board on one day and do not measure headcount. Matching is by title only. Twelve postings is a small sample; do not over-read employer-level rates. These listings were live on the October 24, 2026 snapshot; this file has no posting-date range. FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with ElevenLabs. Figures come from ElevenLabs public job postings. Related downloads Full postings snapshot: fde-postings-2026-10-24.csv / .json Locations index: fde-locations-2026-10-24.json Requirements index: fde-skills-2026-10-25.csv / .json Travel index: fde-travel-2026-10-24.json Deployment strategist index: fde-deployment-strategist-2026-10-24.json Credit Free to reuse with credit to FDE Dispatch and a link to the page above.