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
The Role
This is a high-impact execution role focused on operational clarity, resource alignment, and disciplined program management across a portfolio of engagements.
You will ensure that projects are launched thoughtfully, staffed appropriately, monitored consistently, and governed through structured operating rhythms. You will serve as a connective layer between strategy and execution, translating business objectives into clear staffing plans, financial alignment, and measurable delivery outcomes.
Success in this role means:
- Programs launch with strong operational foundations
- Resource allocation aligns with project scope and timelines
- Cross-functional stakeholders operate from shared visibility and metrics
- Performance trends are identified early and addressed proactively
- Financial plans are tracked with discipline and transparency
Key Responsibilities
1. Operational Readiness & Execution Excellence
- Lead operational setup and governance across 5–8 concurrent engagements
- Establish and run structured operating cadences (weekly reviews, risk logs, performance trackers)
- Ensure new projects launch with clearly defined staffing models, ramp plans, and accountability structures
- Drive cross-functional coordination across Delivery, StratOps, Finance, HR, Talent Supply, and Tech
- Identify process inefficiencies and implement scalable improvements
- Build standardized playbooks and frameworks to improve repeatability and execution consistency
2. Financial Tracking & Performance Ownership
- Track revenue, cost structures, and margins across assigned programs
- Ensure performance aligns with approved financial plans
- Partner with Finance to improve forecasting accuracy and reporting transparency
- Identify performance variances early and support data-driven corrective actions
- Build dashboards that integrate operational and financial metrics into executive-ready reporting
3. Resource Planning & Talent Lifecycle Oversight
- Maintain visibility into supply and demand across engagements
- Oversee staffing alignment to project requirements and timelines
- Monitor utilization trends and allocation efficiency
- Manage contractor lifecycle processes including onboarding, ramp tracking, performance monitoring, and transitions
- Partner with Talent Supply and HR to ensure timely and well-aligned staffing decisions
4. Data-Driven Program Management
- Use data analytics/SQL to query, validate, and analyze operational datasets
- Build and maintain scalable dashboards and executive reporting tools
- Consolidate complex operational and financial data into insight-driven updates for leadership
- Ensure reporting accuracy and consistency across systems
Who You Are
The Execution Driver - You bring structure to ambiguity and ensure initiatives move from planning to disciplined execution.
The Systems Thinker - You understand how staffing, delivery timelines, operational workflows, and financial plans interconnect.
The Cross-Functional Integrator - You are comfortable partnering across Delivery, Finance, StratOps, HR, and Talent Supply to align objectives and execution.
The Data-Oriented Operator - You rely on metrics, dashboards, and analysis to drive clarity and accountability.
The Builder - You create scalable governance mechanisms - trackers, dashboards, and cadences that strengthen operational visibility.
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in program management, operations, or consulting environments
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with P&L accountability
- Strong financial acumen including budgeting, revenue tracking, and cost management
- Proficiency in SQL for querying, validating, and analyzing operational data
- Experience overseeing staffing, onboarding, contractor management, and performance tracking
- Proficiency in building dashboards, trackers, and executive reporting
- Ability to consolidate operational and financial performance into succinct, insight-driven decks for leadership reviews
- Strong stakeholder management across cross-functional teams
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-ambiguity environments
Preferred Requirements
- Experience managing distributed contractor or talent marketplace models
- Prior exposure to AI, data labeling, or other early-stage services organizations
- Experience mentoring junior Program Managers
- Strong analytical skills with comfort handling performance and utilization data
- Experience presenting in executive governance forums and leadership reviews
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
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
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