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Director, Investor Relations & Corporate Development

Turing - San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-15

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Salary: USD 230,000 - 310,000 / annual

Turing is hiring a Director of Investor Relations & Corporate Development to lead inorganic growth and capital markets strategy as the company prepares for public markets. You will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer and work closely with the CEO and board. You will own three interconnected mandates: **Investor Relations & IPO Readiness:** Build the IR function from the ground up, including positioning, metrics, and messaging for current and prospective investors. Support financing rounds, cap-table strategy, and board/shareholder communications. Lead cross-functional IR programs and prepare leadership for investor scrutiny. **Mergers & Acquisitions:** Own the full M&A lifecycle end-to-end—from thesis development and sourcing through valuation, modeling, diligence, negotiation, and close. Build and codify Turing's M&A playbook as a repeatable engine. **Strategic Capital Allocation:** Partner with the CFO and Strategic Finance team on companywide planning, capital allocation, and 0-to-1 strategic initiatives. Collaborate with product, engineering, and GTM leaders on build-buy-partner decisions and post-close integration. Translate market and competitive intelligence into executive recommendations. Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and benchmarks that improve model capabilities. The company also deploys end-to-end agentic AI systems for Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG. This role is critical to scaling Turing's growth through M&A and strategic investments while preparing the organization for an IPO. **Requirements:** - 10+ years across fundraising and M&A, with investment banking, private equity, or growth-stage venture foundations - 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 skills **Preferred Qualifications:** - 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

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