Strategic Project Lead

Turing • San Francisco, NY

11d

About The Position

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. The Strategic Project Lead will be the operational engine behind Turing’s most strategic data delivery projects for frontier AI labs. This role involves taking projects from customer kickoff to flawless delivery, managing hundreds to thousands of contributors and building client relationships. The individual will shape the playbook, quality frameworks, escalation paths, and contributor management infrastructure for large-scale delivery.

Requirements

• Background in consulting, finance, startups, or other operationally intense environments.
• Proven track record of managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
• Strong analytical and communication abilities: ability to spot bottlenecks, build measurement plans, and communicate fixes clearly.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery on every project, designing and managing data pipelines from customer specification to final delivery, with full accountability for scope, timeline, and quality.
• Diagnose bottlenecks in real time, re-sequencing workflows, refining instructions, creating incentive systems, and scaling review processes to hit throughput targets.
• Run daily “war room” syncs to stay ahead of issues before they reach the customer.
• Act as the primary point of contact for researchers and program managers at frontier AI labs, delivering clear, consistent reporting and proactively anticipating client needs.
• Build long-term trust with clients to convert one-off projects into multi-year partnerships and identify expansion opportunities.
• Source, vet, onboard, train, and performance-manage domain experts across distributed workspaces.
• Maintain high execution standards across all stages of production, from annotation through review through delivery.
• Design motivation and performance systems, including gamification, to keep large contributor pools engaged and productive.
• Own quality control across the annotation lifecycle, setting standards, measuring against them, and addressing gaps.
• Analyze datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and systematic errors, and fix root causes.
• Implement and continuously improve annotation, evaluation, and curation best practices.
• Stay ahead of emerging practices in AI data operations and apply them.
• Champion workflow changes that reduce task completion times and improve cost efficiency.
• Maintain clear, scalable documentation for process improvements.
• Codify successful processes by documenting onboarding scripts, quality benchmarks, contributor management frameworks, and escalation patterns.
• Mentor future Strategic Project Leads by creating a comprehensive playbook.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Equity
• Flexible working hours
• 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)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed