About The Position
Turnitin is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance Lead for a 9-month engagement to define the future of how data is used to run the business. The role will address the challenges of independently evolved reporting capabilities across various functions, leading to inconsistent metric definitions, fragmented ownership, and varying confidence in enterprise reporting. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape Turnitin's enterprise data strategy by establishing foundations for trusted, scalable, and decision-ready information. The lead will work closely with executive stakeholders to assess the current environment, define a practical target state, and provide a roadmap for future execution.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in enterprise data governance, architecture, analytics governance, or enterprise reporting controls
- Experience operating across Finance, Sales, Revenue Operations, HR, Engineering, Product, and Business Intelligence functions
- Strong understanding of data lineage, data quality controls, source-system reconciliation, data transformation processes, and reporting controls
- Experience supporting Executive, Board & Investor Reporting
- Experience defining governance frameworks, ownership models, and metric standards
- Demonstrated experience facilitating cross-functional agreement on enterprise metric definitions and ownership, particularly in environments where multiple functions have independently built reporting capabilities and no shared standard exists
- Experience designing operating models for enterprise data functions, including roles and responsibilities, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, governance forums, and resourcing requirements to sustain an ongoing data governance capability
- Familiarity with privacy considerations relating to the use of customer and employee data
- Strong stakeholder management and facilitation skills
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong documentation, process design, and executive communication skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience in SaaS, subscription businesses or distributed analytics environments
- Experience in SaaS, subscription, EdTech, or other data-intensive technology businesses
- Familiarity with sales, bookings, ARR, pipeline, retention, customer, usage, and financial reporting data
- Experience working with Salesforce and related GTM data structures
- Exposure to ERP, HRIS, and production data environments
- Experience supporting reporting used for Board materials, executive reviews, financial planning, or investor reporting
- Experience designing governance models in a distributed analytics environment where multiple functions have independently developed reporting capabilities
- Management consulting or specialist data advisory background, with experience leading multiple data governance or data strategy engagements across different client organisations
Responsibilities
- Assess Turnitin's current reporting and analytics landscape
- Identify the root causes of fragmented reporting and conflicting metrics
- Define ownership and governance principles for critical enterprise data
- Develop a high-level target-state architecture for enterprise reporting and analytics
- Establish standards for enterprise metric definitions and trusted reporting
- Recommend an operating model that balances enterprise consistency with functional autonomy
- Produce a practical roadmap for future implementation and investment
- Facilitate alignment across executive and business stakeholders
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
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
