Turnitin: Senior Technical Product Owner
Headquarters: Dallas, TX, USA
About Turnitin
Turnitin is a recognized innovator in the global education space, partnering with educational institutions for over 25 years to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness. Their products are used to uphold integrity and increase learning performance. They offer a remote-first culture with a focus on well-being and a diverse community. Turnitin has team members in over 35 countries.
Job Description
Are you a Senior Technical Product Owner who can bridge the gap between business outcomes and database migrations? Do you dream in user stories and prioritize technical debt? Then join Turnitin as their first Sr. Technical Product Owner!
This role involves driving the technical roadmap, ensuring the product meets customer needs, and working with multiple teams across different time zones. Turnitin supports a strong work-life balance with a fully remote working environment.
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. Contribute to the technical strategy and roadmap.
- Technical Health Champion: Partner with Engineering Leaders to balance new feature delivery with system maintenance, security, and performance tuning.
- Process Ninja: Analyze existing engineering workflows and propose improvements.
Collaboration & Alignment (The Diplomat's Touch)
- Product Translation: Translate strategic vision into measurable, outcome-based technical epics.
- Inter-Roadmap Conflict Resolution: Proactively identify and resolve conflicts.
- Scope Whisperer: Advise PMs on scope trade-offs and technical feasibility.
- Delivery Visibility: Provide Product Managers with line-of-sight on delivery targets.
- Dependency Czar: Lead cross-team coordination, managing and resolving dependencies.
Backlog & Agile Leadership (The Delivery Dynamo)
- Backlog Ownership: Own the team's technical backlog.
- Story Mastery: Partner with Technical Lead(s) to break down epics into technically feasible stories.
- Risk & Debt Manager: Execute the strategy to prioritize, schedule, and resolve technical risks and debt.
- Priority Management: Support the Technical Lead(s) in managing and communicating changes in work priority.
- Agile Conductor: Lead the technical aspects of all Agile events.
Qualifications
What You Bring to the Table
- Experience: 5+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner, Sr. Technical Analyst, or former Technical Lead/Engineer.
- Complex Stakeholder Management: Proven experience managing prioritization and expectations when supporting multiple Product Managers or product lines simultaneously.
- Technical Acumen (Non-Negotiable): Ability 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).
- Data Fluency: Comfortable querying data (basic SQL proficiency is a huge plus).
- Tooling Mastery: Command of Jira (or similar tools).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with a specific industry or software domain.
- 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.
Additional Information
The expected annual base salary range for this position is: $112,000/year to $168,000/year. This position is bonus eligible / commission-based.
Total Rewards @ Turnitin
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.
Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes.
Our Values
- Customer Centric: Focus on improving learning outcomes.
- Passion for Learning: Committed to learning and growth.
- Integrity: The core of our products and how we treat each other.
- Action & Ownership: Bias for action and willingness to change.
- One Team: Collaborate effectively and celebrate successes.
- Global Mindset: Consider different perspectives and celebrate diversity.
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
Turnitin encourages you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements.
Turnitin, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer- vets/disabled.
To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/turnitin-senior-technical-product-owner