About Turing
Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is the world’s first AI-powered tech services company. It has reimagined tech services from the ground up with AI by offering AI-vetted and matched talent, AI-accelerated development, and access to AI transformation experts who have built many of the most iconic Silicon Valley companies.
Founded in 2018, the company has experienced tremendous growth with three million global developers on its Talent Cloud and 900+ clients. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes’s 2022 “One of America’s Best Startup Employers,” being ranked #1 in The Information’s 2021 Annual List of most promising B2B Companies and Fast Company’s “Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.”
The company’s leadership team comprises both AI technologists from leading organizations including Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Stanford, Caltech, MIT as well as tech consulting veterans from Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, McKinsey, Bain, and more.
About the job:
As a key member of our leadership team, you will play a crucial role in navigating ambiguity and supporting senior leadership to optimize overall business goals. Your proficiency in Statistics, Data Science, Business Analytics, and Machine Learning will be instrumental in creating substantial business value.
You’ll utilize your seasoned expertise to lead high-performing teams, with a successful track record of managing 15+ members, preferably more. Prior experience in a data science consulting firm is advantageous, contributing to the development of a function offering consultative guidance to client leadership.
In addition to external client interactions, you will spearhead internal R&D initiatives. This involves creating various products and POCs that showcase our expertise in ML/Data Science to clients. You need to have strong enthusiasm for these client-facing activities even if you haven’t done them before, since those will be some of the key responsibilities of the role.
Furthermore, you'll be actively engaged in internal R&D projects related to our core technology, focusing on developer recommendations, data science for growth efforts, and the advancement of our generative AI applications.
If you excel in a dynamic environment, blending technical prowess with leadership acumen, apply to be an integral part of our forward-thinking team. Join us in shaping the future
Minimum qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or other relevant engineering discipline from a reputed university, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years of Data Science experience and at least 3 years of experience in a leadership role demonstrating a high level of ownership and responsibility.
- Should have managed data science teams of minimum 15+ in size, more the better.
- Experience with technical innovation within cross-functional engineering environments.
- Experience growing and scaling teams, and motivating others by creating a shared sense of purpose.
Must Have:
- Strong expertise with data analytics and business analytics.
- Experience solving problems for various business divisions.
- Experience managing companies along an ML/data roadmap from ground zero even when they have no clear data strategy or data logging in place.
- Planning and successfully executing a strategy involving appropriate building of data products, logging the right data, acquiring the data or running a data labeling process.
- Expertise with ML/MLOps in both predictive modeling as well as modern techniques.
Nice to have:
- Drive technical pre-sales activities by leading client discovery, proposals, and proof-of-concepts.
- Assess client needs for scoping, cultivate relationships, and create reusable assets to expedite pre-sales and delivery.
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
- Full-time remote opportunity
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.
For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.
