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About The Team

A strategic engineering leader responsible for the end-to-end success of the Payments domain at Turo, overseeing all critical flows from guest pay-ins to host payouts. Proven track record of delivering high-impact, company-wide initiatives through effective cross-functional collaboration with Product, Accounting, Finance, Legal, and Tax teams. Drives operational excellence, ensures compliance, and enables scalable, resilient payment infrastructure to support Turo's global growth.

About The Team

A strategic engineering leader responsible for the end-to-end success of the Payments domain at Turo, overseeing all critical flows from guest pay-ins to host payouts. Proven track record of delivering high-impact, company-wide initiatives through effective cross-functional collaboration with Product, Accounting, Finance, Legal, and Tax teams. Drives operational excellence, ensures compliance, and enables scalable, resilient payment infrastructure to support Turo's global growth.

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What You Will Do

• Effectively prioritizes work across teams to maximize impact on Turo's success.
• May own budgeting for their teams.
• Influences teams across Turo to achieve domain goals and broader company goals within their organization.
• Works with engineering leads to set policies and processes that span Engineering.
• Recognizes, influences, and resolves critical issues that may affect the company's direction.
• Designs their organization to maximize impact and respond to the changing needs of the business.
• Builds autonomous teams that can function without high levels of oversight.
• Works across the organization to resolve technical blockers, help in minimizing friction and maximizing productivity.
• Works with senior leadership and the internal executive team to align the engineering team's vision, mission, and strategy with the company.
• Leads the organization to success with little guidance or direction from senior leadership and the executive team.
• Actively contributes to broad business strategies, decisions, and processes.
• Collaborates with other directors and team managers to influence meeting broader company goals. Serves as coach and mentor to individual contributors and people managers across all of engineering.
  
  

Your Profile

• Experience with architectural patterns and anti-patterns of large, high-scale consumer applications.
• Demonstrated experience taking bias toward taking action, using the best available data to justify your actions and opinions, and making decisions that move the business forward.
• Can effectively hire, mentor, and develop career plans for engineers of all levels.
• Leads by example, holding to the same standards set for the team.
• Strong communicator: shares knowledge upward, downward, and across the organization.
• Has a proven understanding of business metrics and is able to suggest and scope product feature work to maximize the business impact.
• Ability to solve complex problems and help others meet their goals.
• Can effectively explain complex technical concepts to Product, Accounting, Legal, Tax, and engineers.
• Can lead and function effectively in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Demonstrates Turo's values through work product and within day to day team interactions.
  
  

Education And Experience

• 5+ years of management experience
• 15+ years of engineering experience
  
  

The SF base salary target range for this full-time position is $240,000-$300,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position in San Francisco, CA. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your work location during the hiring process.

Turo highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule — Turists will be expected to work in the office 3 days per week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Turo considers working in the office at least 3 days per week to be an essential function of this hybrid role. Your recruiter can share more information about the various in-office perks Turo offers.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)
• Retirement employer match
• Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development
• Turo host matching program
• Turo travel credit
• Cell phone and internet stipend
• Paid time off to relax and recharge
• Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave
• For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities
  
  

We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.

Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world's largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us! Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.

About Turo

Turo is the world's largest car sharing marketplace where you can book the perfect car for wherever you're going from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and France. Whether you're flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, Turo puts you in the driver's seat of an extraordinary selection of cars shared by local hosts.

Discover Turo at the App Store, and Google Play, and check out our blog, Field Notes.

Read more about the Turo culture according to Turo CEO, Andre Haddad.

Turo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program. Women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.

Turo will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, as applicable.

We welcome candidates with physical, mental, and/or neurological disabilities. If you require assistance applying for an open position, or need accommodation during the recruiting process due to a disability, please submit a request to People Operations by emailing ...@turo.com.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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