Head of Product Education Engineering

About the role

The role closes the gap between what Cursor can do and what developers know how to build with it. You will build and lead Cursor's technical curriculum function, including the roadmap, content architecture, and the team that ensures every major capability ships with the educational infrastructure developers need to adopt it.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical education content roadmap: what gets built, when, and for which customer segments, prioritized against product releases, adoption gaps, and enterprise need.
• Build Cursor's technical learning library hands-on: code walkthroughs, structured learning paths, lab exercises, certification-ready content, and workshops tailored to customer needs.
• Partner with Product and Engineering ahead of every major launch so new capabilities ship with the tutorials and learning paths developers need to adopt them.
• Define performance metrics that go beyond completion rates, measuring activation, adoption, and actual developer fluency gains.
• Hire and develop a team of education engineers, and define Cursor's strategy for the third-party course ecosystem.

Requirements

You have 7+ years in technical education, developer content strategy, or developer relations at a developer tools or platform company, and you've owned a content roadmap end-to-end not just the content, but the systems behind it.

You're hands-on and want to stay that way. Not a full-time engineer, but genuinely fluent in developer workflows, AI tooling, SDLC tooling, CI/CD systems, and enterprise engineering environments.

You can go deep with an engineering audience without faking it. You have strong opinions about what great developer education looks like because you've been on the wrong side of bad documentation.

You use AI coding tools extensively in your own workflow — ideally Cursor — as core infrastructure, not as a novelty.

You're customer-obsessed and cross-functional, comfortable translating technical details into business impact and working across engineering, product, and CS without needing a clean lane.

You can build in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the product changes faster than the documentation.

Qualifications

Background in instructional design or learning science.

Experience building or governing a third-party education or partner certification ecosystem.

Familiarity with LMS platforms: Skilljar, Thought Industries, or similar.

Experience managing video content programs: YouTube channels, tutorial series, course platforms.

Prior experience standing up a certification or credentialing program from scratch.