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Salary: USD 240,000 - 0 / annual
Turing is hiring a Director of Information Security to lead governance, data protection, privacy, and risk functions. This is a senior leadership role responsible for programs that demonstrate responsible data handling to customers, regulators, and the board. You will own compliance certifications, data security strategy, privacy program, and enterprise risk management, and will build and lead the team executing these functions.
You will operate as both a strategic leader and program builder: setting direction, hiring and growing a team, and partnering across engineering, legal, product, and the executive team to make security and privacy a durable business advantage.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own and mature the compliance program end-to-end, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and other relevant frameworks; lead audits to successful outcomes
- Set data security strategy: data classification, access governance, encryption standards, DLP, and controls protecting sensitive and customer data across its lifecycle
- Build and run the privacy program, ensuring compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and partner with legal on data processing, DPAs, and privacy-by-design
- Establish and operate an enterprise risk management program: risk identification, assessment, treatment, and reporting to leadership and the board
- Own third-party/vendor risk and customer trust functions, including security questionnaires, customer assurance, and trust center
- Develop, maintain, and enforce security policies, standards, and control frameworks; drive continuous controls monitoring
- Hire, lead, and grow a high-performing team spanning GRC, privacy, and risk
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executives and report regularly on security, privacy, and risk posture
About Turing: Headquartered in San Francisco, Turing's mission is to accelerate superintelligence to drive real economic progress. Turing works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and frontier research benchmarks that improve model capabilities in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and advanced STEM reasoning. Turing also works with Fortune 500 enterprises across financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, automotive, and CPG to build and deploy end-to-end agentic AI systems inside mission-critical workflows.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Extensive experience in information security, GRC, privacy, or risk, including several years leading and building teams (typically 10+ years total, with meaningful management experience)
- Proven track record owning compliance certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or equivalent) and leading audits to completion
- Deep knowledge of data protection and privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) and how to operationalize them
- Strong grounding in risk management frameworks and enterprise risk programs
- Excellent executive communication — able to translate risk into business terms for leadership and the board
- Experience partnering across engineering, legal, product, and sales in a fast-moving environment
Nice to have:
- Relevant certifications (CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CRISC, or similar)
- Experience scaling a compliance/privacy program through significant company growth
- Familiarity with continuous compliance tooling and controls automation
- Background supporting enterprise sales and customer security reviews
