Chief of Staff / Generalist Hacker at Turing Labs Inc. (W20)
$70K - $140K  •  
AI for R&D of consumer brands like P&G to develop better products
Palo Alto, CA, US / San Francisco, CA, US
Full-time
1+ years
About Turing Labs Inc.

Build a better sustainable world!

“Turing Labs is building the Palantir for the CPG industry” - Forbes

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies all over the world – including names you already have in your fridge, toiletries bag, make-up case, and pantry – rely on Turing’s AI technology to create new products faster, safer, smarter, and leaner. With our industry-leading platform, we leverage data and combine industry-specific AI technology to create new products 10x faster than the existing physical trial-and-error process.

Turing Labs is a Series A funded company backed by Insight Partners, Y-combinator, Moment Ventures, and several industry leaders.

The Turing team has decades worth of experience and passion for creating the next generation of products. Today, we employ some of the world’s best machine learning algorithms – and the people who create them – to help drive product innovation that impacts billions of people’s lives.

You can learn more about our journey and where we are going on TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and Forbes.

Join one of the fastest-growing SaaS on the path of becoming the default platform for product development.

About the role

Chief of Staff – Job Description (March 2025)

Build a better sustainable world!

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies all over the world – including names you already have in your fridge, toiletries bag, make-up case, and pantry – rely on Turing’s AI technology to create new products faster, safer, smarter, and leaner. With our industry-leading platform, we leverage data and combine industry-specific AI technology to create new products 10x faster than existing solutions in the market.

Turing Labs is a Series A funded company backed by Insight Partners, Y-combinator, Moment Ventures, and several industry leaders. The team collectively boasts decades worth of industry experience and has a passion for advancing how products are created. Today, we employ some of the world’s best machine learning algorithms – and the people who create them – to help drive product innovation that impacts billions of people’s lives.
You can learn more about our journey and where we are going on TechCrunch, VentureBeat, The Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, and Forbes.


Key Responsibilities

1. Acts as a thought partner to the CEO and cross-functional teams on strategy, company policies, and operating systems. Help define, run, and eventually scale a co-founder led sales organization into a scalable SaaS sales function.

  1. Design, implement, and maintain go-to-market processes to ensure our CEO’s and company’s priorities are managed, tracked, and achieved. Recommend areas for continuous improvement and devise new initiatives to continue driving company growth.
  2. Serve as the right-hand to the CEO; create and manage regular progress reports to track overall corporate goals and KPIs. Determine and define clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities required to meet specific project milestones.
  3. Develop roadmaps and orchestrate projects created by our CEO, as well as propose and execute on special projects.
  4. Assist in managing key internal and external stakeholders (e.g. team, vendors, candidates, etc) on behalf of Turing and the CEO. Drives timely follow-up on customer and partner interactions and supports follow-up interactions with each stakeholder.
  5. Prepare collateral for internal presentations and meetings including quarterly board meetings.
  6. Attend critical industry (AI, Consumer Product Formulation) conferences and stay up-to-date on key industry news and learnings and integrate into Company priorities.
  7. Coordinate and manage priorities amongst back-office departments including legal, accounting, HR, etc.
  8. Manage and improve company culture among existing and new employees and oversee culture events including periodic team offsites and support onboarding and offboarding tasks.
  9. Summarize key company KPIs and dashboards and manage communication among internal and external stakeholders

Our ideal candidate: Basic Requirements

  • Prior Experience – 2+ years of prior work experience with a demonstrated track record of success at an early-stage technology startup or similarly fast-paced environment
  • Bias towards action and ownership – Capable of driving new initiatives from scratch and working cross functionally to drive the success of key strategic projects
  • Strong Communication - Excellent written English skills with ability to connect with executive-level stakeholders
  • Highly Organized – Strong project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage different stakeholder schedules and priorities.
  • Adaptable -Willingness to challenge, change, coach, and be coached - Someone hungry to learn and willing to make mistakes :)

What You’ll Get: Why You Should Apply

  • A competitive base salary, depending on experience) and additional opportunities for upside (performance-based bonuses and equity).
  • The chance to join as an early team member of a rapidly growing startup. We are Y Combinator-backed and received our Series A funding from Insight Partners.
  • High responsibility and learning opportunities. We are a small, tight-knit, and intense team, and each of us is among the top 1% of what we do. You will learn a ton. You will be trusted with extreme ownership of your responsibilities.

Benefits

  • Premium medical insurance 100% covered by Turing
  • $1,500 home office budget
  • Unlimited PTO Policy + 10 Federal Holidays Annually
  • 4% - 401k employer match
  • Dental & Vision insurance
  • Turing Swag

Turing Labs is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Turing Labs considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Turing Labs is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

Technology

Python, Postgres, Typescript, React or Node.js, and Python.

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