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.
We are seeking a motivated and experienced professional to join our team as a STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Contractor Acquisition Lead. In this role, you will be responsible for establishing and nurturing relationships with universities and other academic institutions to source high-quality PhD and MSc contractors specializing in STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines. This role requires not only campus outreach but also the development of multiple channels, such as partnerships with science conferences and events, to bring the best talent onboard.
Key Responsibilities:
● Establish and maintain relationships with key universities and campuses as a primary channel for sourcing STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) contractors (PhDs, MSc students).
● Develop and manage a comprehensive campus recruitment strategy targeting high-science professionals.
● Build partnerships with relevant science conferences, events, and other avenues for talent acquisition.
● Create a world-class experience for PhD and MSc students working with Turing on both full-time and part-time projects.
● Collaborate with internal teams and hiring managers to understand technical contractor requirements and ensure a strong talent pipeline.
● Oversee campus recruitment activities, including events, presentations, and workshops to attract top talent.
● Track and report on recruitment metrics to measure success and drive continuous improvement.
High-Level Objectives:
● Establish relationships with campuses for hiring STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) contractors, focusing on PhDs and MSc students.
● Source high-quality contractors through campus outreach programs.
● Set up additional recruitment channels such as partnerships with science conferences and academic events.
90-Day Goals:
● Establish relationships with 50 campuses specializing in STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines.
● Build a talent pipeline of 2,500 high-quality PhDs and MSc contractors.
● Develop a best-in-class onboarding and work experience for PhD/MSc candidates collaborating with Turing.
Qualifications:
● 5+ years of experience in campus recruiting, talent acquisition, or a related field.
● Proven experience in university recruitment processes and campus event planning
● Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively build relationships with students, university staff, and internal stakeholders.
● Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
● High attention to detail and strong problem-solving skills.
● Familiarity with STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) disciplines and high-science academic environments is a plus
- 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.
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