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.
Role Overview:
Turing is looking for a Senior Counsel, Product, AI & Privacy to architect the legal frameworks powering an AI-driven future built by Turing. This lawyer will be a business critical strategist sitting at the intersection of product and AI innovation and privacy compliance, supporting Turing’s mission to Unleash the World's Untapped Human Potential through AI. Working alongside our engineering and product leaders who hail from some of Silicon Valley's most innovative tech companies, your substantive legal experience, understanding of tech innovation, and your ability to break down complex legal principles for Turing’s business leaders to understand, will directly support Turing's role as a partner to world's leading AI companies, while ensuring Turing adheres to industry-leading privacy, trade secret and data protection standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the strategic development and scaling of Turing's Privacy Program, ensuring industry-leading standards across our global operations and client engagements
- Establish and maintain business critical links between Engineering/Product, InfoSec, Product Delivery and Sales teams to embed privacy principles into our platform, products, and across client project delivery
- Drive legal strategy for product development, focusing on AI/ML applications, LLM training protocols, data protection, and emerging regulatory compliance requirements
- Support Engineering and InfoSec in developing and maintaining privacy frameworks that meet both client expectations and global regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA, and emerging AI regulations)
- Develop pragmatic legal solutions that balance innovation with compliance across various domains (HIPAA, payments, responsible AI)
- Partner with Sales and Business Development to structure commercial agreements that protect Turing's interests while addressing evolving privacy, data protection, and AI-related risks
- Serve as primary subject matter expert on global privacy laws and emerging AI regulations, providing practical guidance to internal stakeholders
- Guide product and engineering teams on implementing privacy requirements across multiple jurisdictions
- Design scalable legal frameworks that support rapid product innovation while maintaining regulatory compliance
Requirements:
- J.D. with 8+ years of legal experience, with significant focus on privacy, data protection, and product counsel in technology companies
- Deep expertise in US, EU, and UK privacy frameworks, with demonstrated experience implementing compliance programs and scaling corporate privacy programs
- Strong background in product counseling for technology companies
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex emerging technology issues while providing practical, business-oriented solutions to colleagues at all levels of an organization
- Experience implementing privacy-by-design principles in product development
- Strategic mindset with ability to balance innovation and compliance with a sense of pragmatism and business context
- Active membership in US State Bar
- Self-starter with experience supporting busy distributed teams in remote-first operations
Preferred Qualifications:
- Expertise in privacy laws of key markets beyond US/EU (e.g., Brazil, Canada, India)
- Understanding of AI/ML technologies, particularly LLMs, and demonstrated interest in the evolving regulatory landscape governing the use of those technologies
- Experience providing product counseling to leaders in AI/ML context
- Experience in identifying IP and Trade Secrets
- Track record of effectively managing outside counsel relationships and budgets
- Understanding of AI ethics, governance, and emerging regulatory frameworks
- Experience supporting remote-first companies and distributed workforces
- Experience with privacy considerations in enterprise sales and procurement processes
- 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.
What We Do
We now live in a remote-first world and every company is in a race to find the best remote engineers. There are so many amazing engineers all over the world. Turing’s mission is to help unleash the world’s untapped human potential.
More than 300 companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Bloomberg, Andreessen, Founders Fund, and Kleiner are already using Turing to spin up their engineering dream teams.
Turing’s hiring platform combines the planetary reach and AI to deliver your ideal engineers in order to help you spin up your engineering dream team. Our deep matching intelligence finds the best Turing developers across 100+ skills like React, Node, Python, Golang, Angular, Swift, Java, and many more. As part of our rigorous vetting process, we also review software engineers’ technical abilities, English skills, and remote working capabilities. Turing ensures time zone overlap, transparency, and reliable communication in order to make remote development easy for you after the match.
The Turing team has deep expertise in AI and building engineering dream teams in the U.S. at top companies. Turing company is backed by well-known investors like Facebook’s initial CTO (Adam D’Angelo), executives from Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Founders Fund (investors in Facebook, Tesla, Asana, etc). Turing.com is led by serial A.I. entrepreneurs Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay Krishnan, their last A.I. firm leveraged remote talent and had a successful acquisition.
