Director, Investor Relations & Corporate Development

Turings mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Headquartered in San Francisco Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets reinforcement learning environments and frontier research benchmarks that improve model capabilities in software engineering enterprise knowledge work and advanced STEM software engineering Turing is the largest and longest-running data provider in the category. Turing also works with Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services life sciences healthcare retail automotive and CPG to build and deploy end-to-end agentic AI systems inside mission-critical workflows. By operating on both sides Turing closes the loop between frontier research and enterprise deployment turning real-world deployment signals into better data evaluations and more capable models. Learn more at .

The Finance team led by our Chief Financial Officer is building the capabilities Turing needs as it scales toward the public markets: sourcing and closing deals deploying strategic capital and telling our story to investors with rigor.

This role reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer and works closely with the CEO and board.

We are hiring a leader to own inorganic growth and capital markets strategy on the Finance team. You will own M&A end to end build and run our strategic investment (ventures) activity and stand up the investor relations and IPO-readiness function. This is a mandate to own a function not just execute deals with direct exposure to the CFO CEO and board.

Turing is preparing for the public markets. Success in this role will directly shape how Turing grows through acquisitions and strategic investments how it allocates capital and how investors understand the business ahead of an IPO.

You will build these functions from the ground up creating the M&A playbook ventures program and investor narrative that Turing will rely on as a public company.

• Investor Relations & IPO Readiness. Build the IR function and narrative: positioning metrics and messaging for current and prospective investors. Support financing rounds cap-table strategy and board and shareholder communications. Lead IR programs across finance legal and operations and prepare leadership and management for investor scrutiny.
• Mergers & Acquisitions. Own the full M&A lifecycle including strategic investing: thesis and sourcing valuation and modeling diligence negotiation and close.
• M&A Playbook & Pipeline. Build and codify Turings M&A playbook and pipeline as a repeatable engine.
• Build-Buy-Partner Decisions. Partner with product engineering and GTM leaders on build-buy-partner decisions and post-close integration.
• Strategic Finance & Planning. Partner with the CFO and Strategic Finance on companywide planning capital allocation and 0-to-1 strategic initiatives. Translate market and competitive intelligence into recommendations for the executive team.

• A deal leader ready to own a function. You have sourced led and closed multiple transactions and you are ready to step up to owning a full function including standing up IR and ventures from scratch.
• Grounded in banking private equity or growth investing. Your foundation is in investment banking private equity or growth-stage venture applied in-house at high-growth technology companies.
• Rigorous on valuation and structure. You bring strong financial modeling valuation and deal-structuring judgment.
• Board-ready. You communicate with executives and the board clearly and credibly.

• 10 years across fundraising and M&A with investment banking private equity or growth-stage venture foundations.
• A track record of sourcing and closing multiple M&A transactions at high-growth technology companies.
• Direct experience with corporate venture / strategic investing.
• Hands-on exposure to IR and IPO readiness in-house or advising through an IPO process.
• Strong financial modeling valuation and deal-structuring judgment paired with executive and board-level communication.

• M&A experience at a company through pre-IPO hyper-growth.
• Experience in AI/ML developer tools data infrastructure or marketplaces.
• Prior BizOps or strategic-finance seat at a company that scaled through IPO.
• Established network across the AI founder VC and banking ecosystems.

• Full-time hybrid role based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $230000-$310000 addition to base salary this role is eligible for variable compensation equity and additional benefits.

Individual compensation will be determined based on job-related skills experience qualifications and other relevant business considerations.

Please submit:

• Resume
• A brief note on a deal you sourced led or structured and the outcome it drove

Our interview process typically includes:

• Introductory conversation
• Executive interviews
• Working session
• Reference checks
• Offer

• 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 AI forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.

• Work at the frontier of AI helping the worlds leading AI labs improve their most advanced models by building expert datasets RL environments and first-of-a-kind benchmarks.
  
  
• Contribute to leading-edge AI research and showcase your work at top conferences such as ICLR ICML and NeurIPS.
  
  
• Bring frontier AI innovation to the enterprise applying lessons learned from leading AI labs to solve real-world business challenges.
  
  
• Collaborate with and learn from exceptional colleagues with deep AI experience from Google Meta Amazon and other leading technology companies.
  
  
• Move at the pace of AI innovation with the speed ownership and impact of a startup.

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 workplaceand celebrate authenticity so if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt 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.