Chief of Staff (CEO's Office)
About the Role
About Turing
Based in San Francisco, California, 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.
Recognized by Forbes, The Information, and Fast Company among the world’s top innovators, Turing’s leadership team includes AI technologists from Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. Learn more at www.turing.com
About the Team
The Office of the CEO operates at the center of Turing's highest-priority strategic initiatives. We partner across executive leadership while representing the company externally with investors, frontier AI labs, enterprise customers, board members, strategic partners, and industry leaders.
This team exists to create leverage for the CEO where the company's most important external decisions are made.
The Role
This is not a traditional Chief of Staff role. Rather than running internal operations, you will become the CEO's external force multiplier. You’ll be in the room, at the table, on the plane, and in the follow-up thread for the most important external conversations the company has—with investors, frontier AI labs, Fortune 500 executives, strategic partners, journalists, and board members—and ensure those high-stakes conversations translate into impactful outcomes.
Often, successful candidates view this opportunity as an intense tour of duty. You will see and influence more consequential decisions in this role than most people experience in a decade.
For the right person, this tour can become a pathway to executive leadership at Turing—or a launchpad toward becoming a founder yourself.
Why This Role Matters
Over the next 12 months, Turing will navigate one of the most consequential periods in its growth. Success in this role will directly influence how effectively the CEO scales relationships with investors, frontier AI labs, strategic partners, and enterprise leaders while advancing the company's long-term growth strategy.
You will be a trusted strategic partner to the CEO on the company's highest-priority external initiatives. You will help execute Turing's next capital formation milestone, build repeatable systems for managing the CEO's most important external relationships, elevate the quality of executive materials and strategic communications, and independently drive company-defining initiatives on behalf of the CEO.
What You Will Own
- Lead Turing's Capital Agenda. Own the defining project of the next 12 months. You run the CEO-side process with the CEO and our advisors: investor target lists, sequencing, materials, data room coordination, diligence management, and relentless follow-through. You have seen a process like this from the investor side. Now you will help run one from the inside.
- Turing’s External Narrative. Deliver the decks and memos for the meetings that matter most: investors, lab leadership, board, press, and strategic partners. You write at the level of the best investment memos you have read, and you build decks a CEO can walk into a room with—unedited.
- Drive Strategic Partnerships. Prepare, sequence, and drive follow-through on our largest commercial relationships with frontier labs—relationships that can reach nine and ten figures. Own pre-reads, stakeholder maps, term summaries, relationship context, and next steps that actually happen.
- Build Executive Relationship Intelligence. Build and operate the systems that ensure the CEO's highest-value relationships remain informed, intentional, and active. These relationships span researchers, human data and operations leaders, executives across frontier AI labs and enterprise customers, and the investor community. You build and run the system that keeps every one of them warm: briefing docs before every meeting, intelligence on what each person cares about, and follow-ups that land within 24 hours.
- Execute High-Impact Special Projects. Lead confidential strategic initiatives requiring judgment, discretion, and exceptional execution. Bring recommendations, not questions, and consistently deliver complete staff work.
What You Will Not Own
This role intentionally focuses on external strategy and execution. You will not:
- Own internal company operating cadence
- Manage executive calendars, travel, or administrative support
- Lead finance strategy or financial modeling
- Own GTM account execution
- Manage internal program management functions
Who You Are
- A venture investor ready to build. You are currently at a top-tier Silicon Valley venture capital or growth equity firm—typically at the Associate or Senior Associate level. Many exceptional candidates will also have begun their careers in top-tier management consulting or investment banking before moving into venture. You are ready to stop observing exceptional companies and start helping build one.
- Networked where it counts. You have built meaningful relationships across the venture and growth ecosystem—with partners, principals, founders, and rising operators—and your network expands ours.
- An elite storyteller. Your writing sample will matter more than your resume. You can distill a complex business into a narrative that investors remember, partners repeat, and executives can confidently take into the room.
- Organized to the point of obsession. Nothing you own gets dropped. Ever. You keep the CEO organized as a byproduct of keeping yourself organized. You bring judgment, recommendations, and completed staff work—not problems waiting to be solved.
- A field operator. Dinners, conferences, board meetings, customer visits, demo days, and international travel energize you. You build relationships naturally and leave every room with stronger connections than when you walked in.
- A person of exceptional judgment. You know when speed matters, when precision matters, and when neither should come at the expense of trust. You earn confidence quickly and exercise discretion instinctively.
- Discreet by default. You will know things almost no one else knows. That information never moves.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from a top-tier university with a strong record of academic excellence.
- 2+ years at a top-tier Silicon Valley venture firm—Associate or Senior Associate.
- Exceptional written communication skills with experience producing investment memos, board materials, executive communications, or strategic presentations.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-priority workstreams with exceptional attention to detail and follow-through.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to build trust across senior stakeholders.
- Ability and willingness to travel extensively, up to 75%, and operate with flexibility around business-critical events and international schedules.
Preferred Qualifications
- Background that combines venture capital with prior experience in management consulting or investment banking.
- 2–5 years at a top-tier Silicon Valley venture firm—Associate or Senior Associate.
- Existing relationships within the Silicon Valley venture, growth equity, or frontier AI ecosystem.
- Experience supporting fundraising, capital formation, M&A, or strategic partner