Solutions Engineering Leadership – Education Technology
Role Overview
This leadership role directs the pre-sales and technical solutions function for the organization’s Education Technology (EdTech) products and services, aiming to support revenue growth, customer success, and product innovation across K–12, Higher Education, and Strategic/Professional Education markets. The leader is responsible for building, managing, and mentoring a high-performing Solutions Engineering team while actively supporting strategic sales opportunities and complex customer engagements. This position acts as the primary liaison, bridging Sales, Product, and Customer Success teams to design scalable, secure, and impactful for education customers.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Team Development: Build, lead, mentor, and coach a team of Solutions Engineers, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning. Define the solutions engineering strategy aligned with company revenue goals and establish best practices for technical evaluations, discovery, solution design, and product demonstrations. Manage capacity planning, resource engagement prioritization, and hiring for the team.
Strategic Sales & Customer Engagement: Partner with Sales team to provide technical sales support for strategic and enterprise opportunities. Lead high-complexity customer discussions, conducting detailed needs assessments to translate business requirements into compelling technical solutions. Oversee or personally execute executive-level product demonstrations, technical/strategic presentations, and proof-of-concepts/pilot programs.
Solution Development & Technical Expertise: Develop a deep understanding of customer environments, pain points, and success criteria. Develop value-based solutions aligned to customer use cases. Solutions must address key education requirements and technologies, including LMS platforms, data integrations and APIs, and compliance with data privacy standards. Master both front-end and back-end product knowledge, serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to internal and external stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product teams to communicate customer requirements, market needs, and field feedback to help shape the product roadmap, product content resource generation, and feature prioritization. Collaborate with Customer Success and Onboarding teams to ensure seamless handoffs from pre-sales to implementation and guarantee strategic customer success. Coordinate and design inter-departmental processes to address complex workflow scenarios reducing barriers for execution of charters.
Operational Excellence: Develop, track, and report on key departmental metrics, including technical win rate, sales cycle length, impact on revenue growth, and team performance. Improve solutions engineering processes, tools, and technical documentation. Implement and manage demo environments and solution architectures.
Dallas, TX, USA Remote (Country) USD 150,225 – 250,375 / year
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Job Details
Location Dallas, TX, USA
Work mode Remote (Country)
Salary USD 150,225 – 250,375 / year
Category Engineering Management
Posted 5 months ago
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About company
TurnItin
Job Description: Company DescriptionWhen 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.Job DescriptionTurnitin is seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer interested in distributed systems, data modeling, and scalability to develop and improve our award-winning educational software. As an engineer on this team, you will be working on 2 co-products that help to provide additional exam integrity to the assessment process. We operate at a high scale across global markets and seek individuals that enjoy solving complex problems.Do you have the skills—and drive—to join a tech team that’s working to digitally transform the ed-tech industry? From test-driving the latest technologies to creating high performing applications, Turnitin is constantly innovating and creating industry-leading solutions that provide peace of mind for our customers worldwide. Turnitin has an inspiring mission, cutting-edge technologies, and in-house product development. As a Senior/Principal Software Engineer at Turnitin, you’ll apply your talents in an agile environment that has the creative energy of a start-up, a highly flexible work environment, a culture of innovation, and most importantly other talented engineers, designers, and product managers to interact with and learn from.Responsibilities* Make significant contributions implementing our shared services, as well as help maintain and upgrade existing ones.
* Hands-on position which requires 90-95% of writing the code.
* Provide guidance in technical design and development activities.
* Ensure future success and stability through code reviews and automated testing.
* Work closely with software architects and database/operations engineers on system infrastructure and design.
* Lead on technical design reviews and recommend improvements.
* Mentor engineers in software development, Java best practices, and technical decisions and emerging technologies.
QualificationsQualifications* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
* 5-10+ years experience of designing and developing applications using Java
* Experience in more modern Java technologies
* 5-10+ years of experience with relational databases
* 1+ year of cloud development with AWS preferred
* Experience working in an agile environment
* Extensive experience with software development best practices (e.g. design patterns, test-driven development, code profiling, debugging).
* Effective technical and cross-functional communication (product, design, operations).
* High level knowledge and experience of industry trends and technology advancements relating to distributed systems, cloud, platform as a service, and software as a service.
* Experience in building cloud-ready solutions based on microservices and multi-tenancy architecture.
* Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing
Nice to Have:* Hands-on experience with pure Java core development (no frameworks) & performance tuning
* Experience with Cloud Native solutions preferably AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, S3, etc)
* Extensive experience with different architecture types including event-driven architecture
* Experience in working with geographically distributed teams including the USA & European countries
Additional InformationOur 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 AdAt 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.
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