Product Manager (UK Remote)

Turnitin; Newcastle upon Tyne; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Product Manager and be a vital part of the product development lifecycle for Integrity products. This role offers the chance to collaborate with engineering, marketing, and operations teams to ensure smooth rollouts and align product visions. With a focus on Agile methodologies, you will lead business analysis activities and communicate effectively with stakeholders. Experience a remote-centric culture that prioritizes your well-being and offers generous time off and health programs. If you're passionate about making a difference in education, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

Remote First Culture

Health Care Coverage

Education Reimbursement

Competitive Paid Time Off

Self-Care Days

Paid Volunteer Time

Charitable Contribution Match

Mental Health Platform Access

Parental Leave

Retirement Plan with Match

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar role with strong analytical and communication skills.
• Proven success in Agile product management and backlog management.

Responsibilities

• Define technical and functional product requirements with engineering.
• Manage backlogs, epics, and user stories while mitigating risks.

Skills

Business Analysis

Agile Product Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

JIRA

SQL

Job description

Turnitin Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Company Description
When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For over 25 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 21,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Feedback Studio, Originality, Gradescope, ExamSoft, Similarity, and iThenticate.

Experience a remote-centric 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.

Job Description
As a Product Manager on the Platform Product Team, you will be an integral part of the product development lifecycle for our Integrity products.

You will balance cost and impact when scoping new features, bugs, and technical debt with engineering and product partners. You will partner with engineering to define technical requirements and priorities, and coordinate with operations and marketing teams to ensure smooth, frictionless rollouts.

At Turnitin, our products are built on a shared services model, requiring product managers to collaborate across multiple teams to ensure end-to-end interoperability and alignment across our products. As part of “One Team” you will be required to manage cross-team dependencies and stakeholders to be successful.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with Engineering and other Product leads to define technical and functional product requirements; lead implementation and rollout, including stakeholder communication.
• Business Analysis activities including the creation and management of backlogs, epics, and user stories.
• Proactively identify, mitigate, and resolve risks and obstacles. Adapt to change by offering clear options and their potential outcomes.
• Create alignment across work tracks and product/engineering teams, with a shared product vision and roadmap.
• Translate high-level strategy and concepts into actionable deliverables.

Qualifications
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.

Additional Information
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 unleashing your potential to positively impact global education, 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. Experience a remote-centric 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 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

• Remote First Culture
• Health Care Coverage*
• Education 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 or Home Office Reimbursement/*
• 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 race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Product Management
• Industries
• Software Development