Strategic Projects Lead - STEM

As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) at Turing, you will spearhead large-scale, impactful projects for leading AI companies. Your role is critical in accelerating innovation by managing teams, fostering client relationships, and ensuring the timely, high-quality delivery of solutions in a dynamic environment.

Must Have

• Design and manage end-to-end project workflows to achieve business outcomes
• Identify process bottlenecks and implement enhancements for efficiency and quality
• Collaborate with engineering teams to automate and scale delivery capabilities
• Serve as the primary contact for AI research and operations teams, ensuring clear communication and reporting
• Build long-term client partnerships through reliable and exceptional performance
• Oversee and align a distributed workforce of 500+ contributors with project goals
• Lead onboarding, training, and performance management to maintain project quality
• Utilize data-driven insights to optimize operational efficiency and reduce costs
• PhD degree with at least 2 years of experience working in data related fields OR 5 years of corporate research experience working with PhDs
• Able to read and write python code and understand data very well
• Track record of leading complex projects with multiple stakeholders
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills
• Strong technical (data) documentation skills and knowledge of data quality
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver results in dynamic settings
• Comfort engaging with senior stakeholders in world-class technology organizations
• Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and is passionate about system optimization and continuous improvement
• Prior experience working with PhD talent
• Knowledge on LLM research, SOTA models and benchmarks

Perks & Benefits

• Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
• Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours

About Turing

Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises looking to deploy advanced AI systems. Turing accelerates frontier research with high-quality data, specialized talent, and training pipelines that advance thinking, reasoning, coding, multimodality, and STEM. For enterprises, Turing builds proprietary intelligence systems that integrate AI into mission-critical workflows, unlock transformative outcomes, and drive lasting competitive advantage.

Recognized by Forbes, The Information, and Fast Company among the world’s top innovators, Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. Learn more at www.turing.com

Summary:

As a Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) at Turing, you will spearhead large-scale, impactful projects for leading AI companies. Your role is critical in accelerating innovation by managing teams, fostering client relationships, and ensuring the timely, high-quality delivery of solutions in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and manage end-to-end project workflows to achieve business outcomes.
• Identify process bottlenecks and implement enhancements for efficiency and quality.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to automate and scale delivery capabilities.
• Serve as the primary contact for AI research and operations teams, ensuring clear communication and reporting.
• Build long-term client partnerships through reliable and exceptional performance.
• Oversee and align a distributed workforce of 500+ contributors with project goals.
• Lead onboarding, training, and performance management to maintain project quality.
• Utilize data-driven insights to optimize operational efficiency and reduce costs.

Required Skills:

• PhD degree with at least 2 years of experience working in data related fields OR 5 years of corporate research experience working with PhDs.
• Able to read and write python code and understand data very well.
• Track record of leading complex projects with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• Strong technical (data) documentation skills and knowledge of data quality.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver results in dynamic settings.
• Comfort engaging with senior stakeholders in world-class technology organizations.
• Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and is passionate about system optimization and continuous improvement.
• Prior experience working with PhD talent.
• Knowledge on LLM research, SOTA models and benchmarks.

Values:

• We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
• We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
• We are Al forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.

Advantages of joining Turing:

• Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
• Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours