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Senior Product Manager, Course Management & Optimization

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Join Coursera as a Senior Product Manager to drive content management and optimization, enhancing learner engagement while shaping the future of online education.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Responsibilities: Lead the development of product strategies for content management and enhancement, implement performance metrics, and collaborate with various teams to innovate on learning content.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Skills: 5+ years of product management experience, excellent problem-solving skills, user-centric design advocacy, and ability to collaborate across teams.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Qualifications: Experience with AI-driven products and taking initiatives from conception to launch, alongside a focus on user value propositions and clarity in execution.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Location: This role is remote with a preference for candidates in California.

liETtVLaARqgmMEbYzHNNLIzUPcdfPrwhYtVK7Qa.png Compensation: $113000 - $142000 / Annually



Launched in 2012 by two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Coursera is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 168 million registered learners. Our mission is to provide universal access to world-class learning. We partner with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations and Professional Certificates degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.

At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. 

Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.

Job Overview:

As a mission-driven company, we’re passionate about making a positive impact in learners’ lives by unlocking opportunity through learning. We’re looking for self-motivated, curious, and bold problem solvers — people who are driven by purpose, energized by complex challenges, and deeply committed to putting learners at the center of everything they do. If you’re excited to reimagine how education can better serve everyone, everywhere and want to build products that drive real-world impact, you’ll thrive here.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Coursera’s content ecosystem and learning experience that powers our platform. Your work will help us deliver high-quality, high-impact content that not only engages learners but keeps pace with a rapidly changing world of skills and careers.

Your mission? Empower content creators to efficiently produce, optimize and manage course content throughout its lifecycle, leveraging streamlined tooling and workflows, while also innovating on content formats to enhance learner engagement and drive stronger learning outcomes.If you thrive on solving complex problems, navigating uncertainty, collaborating in a tight-knit team, and are excited to shape Coursera’s next wave of product offerings, we’d love to meet you.

  • Responsibilities:
  • Develop product strategies and solutions for managing, optimizing and innovating on learning content with the goal of enhancing learner engagement and satisfaction.
  • Develop and implement metrics and dashboards to assess and enhance content performance.
  • Partner with Teaching & Learning and Data Science teams to identify, prioritize and execute content optimization.
  • Manage and improve key systems and workflows for course management and administration.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to align content priorities with strategic initiatives and learner needs.
  • Integrate Generative AI and automation into content strategies, staying ahead of market trends.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience working in product management on tech products, including developing and prioritizing product backlogs.
  • Develop and deliver comprehensive product strategies and requirements for key features to improve and/or innovate on the user experience.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and marketing teams to drive seamless product execution.
  • Conduct user research and analyze feedback to advocate for user-centric design and inform decision-making.
  • Create and oversee go-to-market plans for new features to ensure successful rollouts.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Strong problem-solving skills, using sound judgment to navigate complex challenges, assess risks, and present clear, data-driven solutions in a structured format.
  • Experience building, using, or experimenting with AI-driven products, particularly in the areas of workflow automation, conversational AI, decision support, or agentic AI, and transitioning from traditional UI to AI-driven or AI-first product.
  • 0-to-1. You have taken products from idea to launch, with proven results post-launch.
  • An “owner” mindset. You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master simplifier, and someone who pushes towards clarity and delivery.
  • User-first. You understand and speak in terms of user value propositions, and to creatively inspire users to try the product. You take on complex product challenges and find elegant, simplifying solutions to avoid making them our users and partners’ problems.
  • A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on.

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Compensation:

Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. This role's targeted hiring base salary range is between $113,000 and $142,000 The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits. 

Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.

For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here.

For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.

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