Payment Specialist

About Turing

Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems. Turing helps customers in two ways: working with the world's leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilingualism, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that expertise to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for Fortune 500 companies and government institutions. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes's "One of America's Best Startup Employers," #1 on The Information's annual list of "Most Promising B2B Companies," and Fast Company's annual list of the "World's Most Innovative Companies." Turing's leadership team includes AI technologists from industry giants Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, McKinsey, Bain, Stanford, Caltech, and MIT. For more information on Turing, visit For information on upcoming Turing AGI Icons events, visit

Summary: Turing is seeking a detail-oriented and process-driven Payment Specialist to join our Finance team. This role involves managing the contractor payout operations across global jurisdictions, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payments. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-paced environments, is passionate about improving financial operations, and possesses strong collaboration skills.

Responsibilities:

• Own the contractor payment lifecycle, ensuring timely execution and accurate documentation
• Manage monthly and off-cycle payout processes
• Validate and reconcile payment inputs across systems and teams
• Respond to payment-related inquiries from internal stakeholders and external contractors
• Ensure global compliance with tax, employment, and regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
• Prepare audit documentation and maintain controls for payout-related processes
• Partner with Finance, People, and Legal teams to improve data flow and automation between platforms
• Proactively identify operational inefficiencies and drive improvement initiatives
• Maintain up-to-date best practices and documentation of payout processes
• Collaborate with Finance and People teams to ensure smooth payment execution
• Partner with the Revenue Accounting team on month-end close activities related to contractor expenses

Qualifications:

• 3–5 years in finance operations, payroll, or payment processing roles
• Familiarity with platforms like Deel, HiBob, Jibble, etc.
• Understanding of global compliance for contractor payouts
• Proficient in Excel & Google Sheets
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders in other departments
• Detail-oriented with high data accuracy
• Proficient use of AI agents to enhance workload efficiency
• Proactive problem-solver
• Strong communicator and organizer
• Manages multiple priorities and deadlines effectively
• Navigates ambiguity and builds new processes confidently

You'll Thrive in This Role If You:

• Take ownership and pride in financial execution
• Love optimizing processes and systems
• Enjoy working at global scale and complexity
• Are highly accountable and action-oriented
• Embrace AI and automation for scale and efficiency

• 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.