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, and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, 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.

Remote-First Philosophy

Our mission comes first. We are committed to ensuring academic integrity in global education and meaningfully improving learning outcomes for ALL students, whether our team does it from their kitchen, patio or the office is of little consequence. 

Operating in over 140 countries around the world, it is fitting that one of our Values is ‘Global Mindset’. It means that we respect local cultures, embrace diversity, and we respect personal choice. We know that 2% of our workforce favors being in the office full-time; 13% prefer to be in the office 3-4 days a week; 34% prefer 1-2 days a week and 51% desire to be fully remote. This is why working remotely is our default. At the same time, we balanced the needs and desires of some employees and safely re-opened several of our offices to allow them to work there full or part-time.

At Turnitin, we are prepared for the future of work and that means reimagining how we collaborate, syncing up across time zones and finding the best ways to support our people doing their best work.

Our remote-first culture allows for every single employee to get the same access to learning and career opportunities, and it enables us to think differently about where and how we recruit talent of diverse backgrounds.

Job Summary:

Turnitin is seeking to hire a Vice President, Global People Partnerships to join our Global People Team, reporting to the Chief People Officer. The People Team enables Turnitin to unleash the full potential of ‘One Team’ and culture which, in turn, enables it to deliver its business strategy and purpose. 

The People Team is split into four verticals: 

•  Global People Partners

•  Centers of Excellence (COEs)

•  People Services / HR Shared Services 

•  People Strategy & Operations (PS&O) 

This is an exciting, global opportunity to lead our People Business Partners, Org Development, and People Relations teams. The successful candidate will lead an innovative, effective, best-in-class HR organization and help to extend

Responsibilities:

Turnitin’s inclusive, people centric culture to drive our business strategy. We are seeking a leader who is passionate about education and will drive that passion through our culture. The VP will possess a strong background in culture development, DE&I, designing and implementing organizational structures, strategic talent planning and acquisition, organizational and employee development. The VP will be the steward of the Turnitin Values and will help optimize a remote first culture and global ways of collaboration. 

• Be a catalyst for Human Resources innovation and champion new ways to advance Turnitin’s people experience.

• Collaborate with the Senior Leadership Team to proactively develop and implement progressive programs that drive development, engagement, and culture.

• Provide vision, leadership and oversight to develop strategies and best practices that promote a culture of inclusion, equity and diversity where all individuals can thrive.

• Act as a champion of Turnitin’s culture and core values while promoting corporate social responsibility.

• Help shape and implement progressive and proactive total rewards strategies and programs to motivate, incentivize and reward employees to foster high performance and engagement.

• Help shape and implement  programs to enhance organizational development, talent management and employee growth.

• Help develop and drive talent acquisition plans and efforts to identify and recruit diverse talent within and outside of the company.

• Oversee the implementation of human resources operations, systems and processes that will scale to support the organization as the company continues to grow.

• In conjunction with annual strategic and long-range financial planning efforts, help facilitate an organizational design process that informs Turnitin’s investment strategy.

• Help optimize a remote first work approach, including effective cross-cultural and cross-time zone ways of working. 

• Provide management information and summaries of the employee engagement and relations landscape. Coach leaders to conduct skip-level reviews and course-correct, as is needed. 

• Enable effective delivery against annual OKRs using COE support with the team to ensure continuous improvements are realized in relation to key metrics like Turnover, Retention, Diversity, etc.

• Ensure open flows of communication up, down and sideways, sharing news and information, holding regular team meetings and team events. Ensures that everyone is well informed and up to date with critical items for the People Team. 

• Develop open and enduring stakeholder relationships with Turnitin Leaders to assist the development and delivery of the People Strategy  and link it operationally to business needs, providing personal coaching and guidance/development for Leaders personally and via team.

• Creates a positive team environment, in which team members’ motivation is central to success. Ensures the team is nurtured, coached, given regular meaningful feedback and proactively developed in order to achieve their potential and deliver their best work. Works closely with the team to inspire innovation and continuous improvement.

• 15+ years of hands-on HR leadership including having held senior director and above HR posts. The ideal candidate could be a sitting VP or a divisional HR senior leader with the skills, executive presence, gravitas and drive to take on the top job.

• Track record of building, evolving and leading a world-class people function. Demonstrated success in building engaged and high-performing team cultures, as well as HR functional build-out experience.

• A track record of translating business strategies into HR programs that drive results. Demonstrated ability to design and staff a strong and results-oriented HR organization with replicable and scalable processes.

• Dispersed global operations. Track record of supporting a global, highly distributed workforce. An HR leader who truly understands the P&L and nuances of the diverse markets served and can add value to the enterprise in a tangible and quantitative way. Having opened and built out teams and infrastructure in new international markets is a significant plus.

• M&A and culture change management. Experience with all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence, cultural integration and leading the effective unification of people resources and systems. Demonstrated accomplishment in meshing cultural change initiatives with the strategic direction of the business. Brings an understanding of how to maintain a positive culture in a "remote first" environment.

• Passion for the mission of education. The mission of Turnitin demands a high integrity HR leader. They should be someone who understands the importance of a mission-driven organization that provides exceptional service to its education clients. The ideal person will bring a passion for excellence and energy/enthusiasm to make a significant difference as a visible leader.

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.

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. We strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and the LGBTQ+ community, regardless of age, gender, religion, marital or veterans status.