Senior Technical Product Owner

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Turnitin products are used by educational institutions and certification and licensing programs to uphold integrity and increase learning performance, and by students and professionals to do their best, original work.

Experience a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in a way that best suits you, supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education.

Turnitin is a global organization with team members in over 35 countries including the United States, Mexico, United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, India, and the Philippines.

Are you the one who bridges the chasm between "business outcomes" and "database migrations"? Do you dream in user stories and wake up to prioritize technical debt? Do you believe the how is just as important as the what?  Are you interested in how technology will drive the future of education?  Then ditch the daily triage routine and join our high-velocity ed-tech engineering organization as Turnitin’s first Sr. Technical Product Owner (TPO)!

The Engineering Plan team manages the plan and build functions for our products, and we need a seasoned TPO to be the technical conscience and execution powerhouse for a core product which spans multiple engineering teams. This isn't just about managing a queue; it's about driving the technical roadmap that ensures our product meets customer needs and stays resilient for years to come.  This person will work closely with multiple teams in both Product and Engineering from across different time zones and countries to ensure technical execution is on track.  Turnitin supports a strong work life balance by providing a fully remote working environment; we focus on hunger for delivering for our customers versus the hours we work.

Your Quest: Technical Strategy & Execution

You will be the vital link, the glue, and the primary translator across our cross-functional teams.

Technical Expertise & Strategy (The Architect's Mind)

• System Deep Dive: Master the technical aspects of assigned domain, including system architecture, service mesh, and infrastructure components. You'll contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap, ensuring technical choices align with long-term product health.
• Technical Health Champion: Directly partner with Engineering Leaders to balance new feature delivery with the critical work of system maintenance, security, and performance tuning. You are the voice advocating for proactive technical health.
• Process Ninja: Analyze existing engineering workflows, identifying bottlenecks and proposing improvements to optimize the plan and build phases of our delivery pipeline.

Collaboration & Alignment (The Diplomat's Touch)

• Product Translation: Work with multiple Product Manager(s), each managing a business feature roadmap, to translate their collective strategic vision (e.g., "Narrative: We must launch Feature X") into measurable, outcome-based technical epics.
• Inter-Roadmap Conflict Resolution: Proactively identify and resolve conflicts or resource contention arising from competing demands across different Product Managers' feature roadmaps.
• Scope Whisperer: Advise PMs on scope trade-offs and technical feasibility, using data on team capacity, system dependencies, and risk to drive difficult prioritization conversations across product lines.
• Delivery Visibility: Stay deeply informed on development status and execution detail, empowering the Product Manager(s) with line-of-sight on delivery targets for the features relying on your engineering team.
• Dependency Czar: Take the lead on cross-team coordination, proactively managing and resolving technical and functional dependencies across Engineering, DevOps, and QA to free Engineering Leaders and boost team velocity.

 Backlog & Agile Leadership (The Delivery Dynamo)

• Backlog Ownership: Own the team's technical backlog, meticulously synchronizing the work with the team's capacity in partnership with Engineering Leaders.
• Story Mastery: Partner with Technical Lead(s) to break down complex epics into technically feasible, well-designed stories with crystal-clear acceptance criteria.
• Risk & Debt Manager: Rely on your Tech Leads to surface technical risks and debt, and then execute the strategy to prioritize, schedule, and resolve them within the development cycle.
• Priority Management: Support the Technical Lead(s) in ensuring the team stays focused by managing and communicating changes in work priority, often resulting from negotiations with the multiple PMs.
• Agile Conductor: Lead the technical aspects of all Agile events (especially refinement and planning) to ensure the team is focused, technically aligned, and protected from priority shifts.

What You Bring to the Table

• Experience: 5+ years of progressive experience as a Technical Product Owner, Sr. Technical Analyst, or a former Technical Lead/Engineer who transitioned into product management.
• Complex Stakeholder Management: Proven experience managing prioritization and expectations when supporting multiple Product Managers or product lines simultaneously.
• Technical Acumen (Non-Negotiable): You must be able to read, understand, and discuss system architecture diagrams, API specifications (REST/gRPC), database schemas, and the principles of CI/CD.
• Deep Domain Knowledge: Expertise in managing products built on modern software stacks (e.g., microservices, cloud platforms like AWS/Azure/GCP, containerization via Docker/Kubernetes).
• Data Fluency: Comfortable querying data (basic SQL proficiency is a huge plus) to validate assumptions and measure the impact of technical improvements.
• Tooling Mastery: Command of Jira (or similar tools) for complex backlog management, dependency tracking, road mapping, and reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with a specific industry or software domain relevant to the company.
• Certifications such as A-CSPO/CSP-PO, PMI-PBA, PMI-ACP, CBAP, or similar.
• Certifications in Cloud or other modern technology concepts.
• Experience with DevOps practices and tools.
• Experience or certifications with industry standard frameworks such as SAFe, ITIL, COBIT.

If you’re ready to dive deep into the tech, champion engineering excellence, and be the person who understands both the business and the binary, we want to hear from you!

The expected annual base salary range for this position is: $112,000/year to $168,000/year. This position is bonus eligible / commission-based.

Actual compensation will be provided in writing at the time of offer, if extended, and is determined by work location and a range of other relevant factors, including but not limited to: experience, skills, degrees, licensures, certifications, and other job-related factors. Internal equity, market and organizational factors are also considered.

Total Rewards @ Turnitin
At Turnitin, we believe Total Rewards go far beyond pay. While salary, bonus, or commission are important, they’re only part of the value you receive in exchange for your work.

Beyond compensation, you’ll experience the intrinsic rewards of unleashing your potential and making a positive impact on global education. You’ll also thrive in a culture free of politics, surrounded by humble, inclusive, and collaborative teammates.

In addition, our extrinsic rewards include generous time off and health and wellness programs that provide choice, flexibility, and a safety net for life’s challenges. You’ll also enjoy a remote-first culture that empowers you to work with purpose and accountability in the way that suits you best, all supported by a comprehensive package that prioritizes your overall well-being.

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

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric: Our mission is focused on improving learning outcomes; we do this by putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning: We are committed to our own learning and growth internally. And we support education and learning around the globe.
• Integrity: Integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin—it is the core of our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership: We have a bias for action. We act like owners. We are willing to change even when it’s hard.
• One Team: We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each others' successes.
• Global Mindset: We consider different perspectives and celebrate diversity. We are one team. The work we do has an impact on the world.

Global Benefits

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage
• Education Reimbursement*Competitive Paid Time Off 
• Self-Care Days
• National Holidays
• 2 Founder Days + Juneteenth Observed
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Charitable Contribution Match
• Monthly Wellness or Home Office Reimbursement
• Access to Employee Assistance Program (mental health platform)
• Parental Leave
• Retirement Plan with match/contribution

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 unleash your potential alongside us, join our team!

Turnitin, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer- vets/disabled.