Pod Lead - Legal, Risk & Compliance - Legal

Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world’s leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises deploying advanced AI systems.

We are seeking senior legal professionals to serve as Pod Leads for teams of approximately 16-20 trainers.

Pod Leads will be responsible for both hands-on production of high-difficulty, expert-level legal tasks and gold-standard solutions and the day-to-day leadership, coaching, quality assurance, and calibration of their pod.

• Lead and manage a pod of approximately 16-20 team members, ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of expert-level legal work.
• Actively produce high-difficulty legal tasks and gold-standard solutions alongside pod members as a hands-on legal expert.
• Develop, evaluate, and refine complex legal tasks involving contract drafting, legal analysis, regulatory interpretation, and related areas of legal practice.
• Review and quality-assure pod outputs for legal accuracy, depth of reasoning, practical applicability, consistency, and alignment with professional legal standards.
• Establish and maintain gold-standard solutions, evaluation criteria, and rubrics to ensure consistency and quality across the pod.
• Coach and mentor team members, providing clear and constructive feedback to strengthen legal reasoning, task quality, and overall performance.
• Manage pod workflows, priorities, and delegation while maintaining accountability for both individual contributions and overall team output.
• Identify recurring quality issues, edge cases, and rubric ambiguities, and elevate complex or unresolved matters to the Functional SME (Expert) Lead.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance team environment through clear communication, active listening, empathy, and effective conflict resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement in task creation, review, calibration, and quality-assurance processes while maintaining strong legal judgment and professional integrity.

• 10+ years of legal practice, preferably at Senior Associate, Counsel, or equivalent level.
• JD or equivalent legal qualification with active US bar admission.
• Strong expertise in contract drafting, legal analysis, and regulatory interpretation.
• Experience in reviewing, mentoring, managing, or quality-assuring legal work.
• Excellent communication, leadership, judgment, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skills.

• Contract
  
  Start Date:
  
  As soon as possible
• Engagement: 6 weeks, with potential for extension
• Timezone: PST
• Engagement Type: Contract