Turing

Strategic Project Lead

Turing$120K — $150K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in project management or operations, preferably in consulting or startups.
  • Strong analytic skills to identify and resolve workflow bottlenecks.
  • Excellent communication for managing high-profile client relationships.
  • Experience in managing large teams, ideally spanning hundreds of contributors.
  • Passion for process optimization and execution in complex environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead all phases of data delivery projects from kickoff to final delivery.
  • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in real-time to maintain throughput goals.
  • Act as the primary liaison for elite AI lab clients, addressing needs proactively.
  • Coordinate large teams of contributors while maintaining high-quality production standards.
  • Ensure data integrity through rigorous quality control and trend analysis.
  • Drive continuous improvement in operational efficiency and scalability.

Benefits

  • Direct involvement with top-tier AI labs on groundbreaking projects.
  • Opportunity to shape operational processes with visibility to leadership.
  • Impactful work that contributes to advancements in AI and machine learning.
  • Collaborative culture with a focus on agility and responsiveness.
  • Flexible work hours that promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
The Role

You will be the operational engine behind Turing's most strategic data delivery projects for frontier AI labs. Every major lab - OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, Anthropic, and others - depends on high-quality human expert data to train, post-train, and evaluate their models. Your job is to take those projects from customer kickoff to flawless delivery, managing hundreds to thousands of contributors and building the client relationships that turn a single project into a long-term partnership.

This is a high-ownership role. You will shape the playbook, the quality frameworks, the escalation paths, and the contributor management infrastructure that define how Turing delivers at scale.

What You'll Do

1) Operational execution - own end-to-end delivery on every project you run
  • Design and manage data pipelines from customer specification to final delivery, with full accountability for scope, timeline, and quality.
  • Diagnose bottlenecks in real time - re-sequence workflows, refine instructions, create incentive systems, and scale review processes to hit throughput targets.
  • Run daily "war room" syncs to stay ahead of issues before they reach the customer.

2) Customer relationships - be the face of Turing to the world's leading AI labs
  • Act as the primary point of contact for researchers and program managers at frontier AI labs.
  • Deliver clear, consistent reporting and proactively anticipate client needs before they ask.
  • Build the kind of long-term trust that converts a one-off project into a multi-year partnership - and identify expansion opportunities along the way.

3) Large-scale coordination - orchestrate the work of 100-1,000+ contributors
  • Source, vet, onboard, train, and performance-manage domain experts across distributed workspaces.
  • Maintain high execution standards at every stage of production, from annotation through review through delivery.
  • Design motivation and performance systems - including gamification - that keep large contributor pools engaged and output high.

4) Quality ownership - ensure world-class data integrity on every project
  • Own quality control across the annotation lifecycle: set the bar, measure against it, and close the gap when it slips.
  • Analyze datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and systematic errors - then fix the root cause, not just the symptom.
  • Implement and continuously improve annotation, evaluation, and curation best practices.

5) Process innovation - make the operation faster, better, and cheaper each cycle
  • Stay ahead of emerging practices in AI data operations and apply them before customers ask.
  • Champion workflow changes that reduce task completion times and improve cost efficiency.
  • Maintain clear, scalable documentation so that improvements survive beyond any single project.

6) Playbook building - codify what works so future SPLs scale faster than you did
  • Document onboarding scripts, quality benchmarks, contributor management frameworks, and escalation patterns.
  • Own your domain's section of the SPL knowledge base.
  • Actively mentor the next hire - your playbook is your legacy.

Who We're Looking For
  • Background in consulting, finance, startups, or other operationally intense environments, with a proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
  • Strong analytical and communication abilities: you can spot a bottleneck in a noisy production environment, build a measurement plan, and communicate the fix to a demanding client in plain language.
  • Customer-facing experience: comfortable working directly with high-profile clients, managing expectations, and building long-term relationships.
  • Excited by gritty process optimization and large-scale execution - you thrive on making complex operations faster, cleaner, and more reliable.

What Success Looks Like

30 days: First project delivered end-to-end with no quality escapes reaching the customer. Reporting cadence established and trusted by the lab. Contributor onboarding playbook v1 published. You know the names of every researcher on your accounts.

60 days: 300+ active contributors across concurrent workstreams, all executing to standard. At least one customer has proactively expanded scope based on delivery quality. Quality framework codified and in daily use by your team.

180 days: $5M+ in active project revenue under your management. A second SPL is ramping off your playbook. You spend more time multiplying through others than operating as a solo contributor.

Why Turing
  • Work directly with the world's leading AI labs at the cutting edge of post-training, evaluation, and agentic AI research.
  • Real impact on the path to AGI: the data you deliver will directly influence how frontier models are trained and evaluated.
  • High ownership and influence. You will shape how Turing delivers at scale, with direct visibility to senior leadership.
  • Direct-to-research customers. You will spend your time partnering with the people building the future of AI, not coordinating with procurement.

How to Apply

Send a CV and a short note on a project you managed end-to-end - ideally something that required coordinating a large team, managing a demanding client, or solving a hard quality problem under time pressure - to [email protected]. We read every submission.

Compensation

SPL: Base $120K-$150K • OTE exceeds $300K • Equity

Senior SPL: Base $150K-$200K • OTE exceeds $500K • Equity

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

About Turing

Turing is a technology company that provides a platform for companies to hire remote software developers. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence to match companies with developers who have the skills and experience they need. Turing was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has raised $32 million in funding to date.
Learn more about Turing
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2018

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Turing

More Business Services Jobs

Find similar Strategic Project Lead jobs: