Strategic Project Lead — Data Operations ($120k-$200k + Equity) at Turing

About the role

Turing is seeking a Strategic Project Lead to drive high-stakes data delivery for the world’s leading frontier AI labs. This high-impact role reports directly to the President, focusing on scaling critical AI training infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic data projects, from initial customer kickoff to final quality-assured data pipelines, ensuring perfect alignment with researcher specifications and timelines.
• Orchestrate and performance-manage distributed teams of 100 to 1,000+ domain expert contributors, designing incentive systems and daily war room syncs to hit high-throughput production targets.
• Build and maintain long-term trust with frontier AI lab researchers, acting as the primary face of Turing while identifying expansion opportunities for multi-year strategic partnerships.

Requirements

• Proven background in consulting, finance, or high-growth startups with a track record of managing complex, operationally intense projects and multi-stakeholder relationships under significant pressure.
• Exceptional analytical and communication skills, capable of diagnosing production bottlenecks in real-time, building measurement plans, and presenting technical solutions to demanding, high-profile clients in plain language.
• Experience managing large-scale teams or distributed contributor pools, with a genuine passion for gritty process optimization, quality control frameworks, and codifying scalable operational playbooks for others.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in data management, project management, or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of data science principles and methodologies.
• Experience with managing and optimizing large-scale distributed teams.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with external partners.

Skills

• Project Management
• Data Management
• Team Leadership
• Technical Communication
• Strategic Thinking

Benefits

• Massive earning potential and leadership influence, with total OTE exceeding $300k-$500k.
• The opportunity to build the operational playbooks for a global AI leader.
• Unrivaled exposure to the AI ecosystem, working as a primary partner for researchers at the world's most prestigious AI labs.
• Direct impact on the path to AGI by delivering the critical human expert data used to train and evaluate frontier models at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta AI.

Pay

$120k-$200k + Equity

Schedule

Full-time