Product Manager (UK Remote)

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, Ouriginal and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

As a Product Manager on the Writing Integrity Platform Team, you will be a hands-on Product Manager working across products and teams as part of “One Team.” 

You will be primarily responsible for managing our Similarity product– managing a product roadmap, analyzing usage and trends, and facilitating projects with engineering and product partners throughout the software development lifecycle. 

You will be expected to consider aspects like interoperability, performance, and business cost/impact when working with your engineering and product partners to scope new features, capabilities, and services. 

In addition to a deep understanding of the end-to-end customer experience, the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and manage cross-team dependencies and stakeholders is crucial for success.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with Engineering and other Product leads to define product requirements and lead implementation and rollout.
• Remove roadblocks, and quickly respond to change/uncertainty through articulating options, implications, and outcomes that inform strategic decision making.
• Business Analysis activities including the creation and management of backlogs, epics, and user stories. 
• Facilitating team planning and refinement. 
• Create alignment across work tracks and product/engineering teams, with a shared product vision and roadmap.
• Ensure your products address both internal and external supportability requirements.

Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience

• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner/Product Manager or a similar role.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs, and evaluate opportunistic innovative ideas with technical and non-technical partners.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up hypotheses and recommendations.
• Proven success in Agile product management, development and product ownership competencies including experience with JIRA (or equivalent) systems for backlog management, project status and work tracking.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Knowledge/Experience

• CSPO or equivalent product management qualifications.
• Experience with SQL.
• Experience in Micro Frontend and Shared Services deliverables.
• Experience in low-fidelity prototyping to aid early brainstorming with stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience in leading complex digital products in a fast moving environment involving multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience with managing a technical roadmap for service level deliverables.
• Understanding of the educational technology landscape including Knowledge of or experience with LMS systems such as Blackboard, Canvas, Desire to Learn, Moodle, Schoology, and others.

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Total Rewards @ Turnitin
Turnitin maintains a Total Rewards package that is competitive within the local job market. People tend to think about their Total Rewards monetarily — solely as regular pay plus bonus or commission. This is what they earn in exchange for what they do. However, Turnitin delivers more than just these components. Beyond the intrinsic rewards of making a difference in the lives of educators, administrators, learners and researchers around the world, and thriving in an organization that is free of politics and full of humble, inclusive and collaborative teammates, the extrinsic rewards at Turnitin include generous time off and health and wellness programs that offer choice and flexibility and provide a safety net for the challenges that life presents from time to time. In our Remote-First approach to collaborating, you are also able to work the way that best fits your style and situation - whether that be remote, in one of our offices/rented spaces, or hybrid.

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Global Benefits

• Flexible/hybrid working 
• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Tuition Reimbursement*
• Competitive Paid Time Off 
• 4 Self-Care Days per year
• National Holidays*
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time*
• Charitable contribution match*
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement/Home Office Equipment*
• Access to Modern Health (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave*
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution*

* varies by country

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!

 Turnitin, LLC is committed to the policy that all persons have equal access to its programs, facilities and employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.