Principal Product Manager

Responsibilities

• Define and drive product strategy and own the roadmap for a high priority area of the Coursera platform, such as mobile, AI-powered assessment or agentic enterprise integration.
• Translate customer insights and market trends into integrated solutions that can scale to serve millions of learners and customers around the world.
• Lead execution from ideation and analysis through development and launch, delivering measurable outcomes.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, and Data teams to deliver AI-powered product features and experiences.
• Leverage data and customer feedback to inform decisions and continuously improve.
• Mentor peers and contribute to building a high-performing product organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion in assessment, measurement, or skills validation products.
• You have experience building, using, or experimenting or shipping AI-powered or LLM-integrated products, including familiarity with LLM-as-judge evaluation methods and their failure modes.
• Deep understanding of how skill and competency measurement works — not just completion tracking, but defensible claims of capability.
• Demonstrated ability to define rubrics, evaluation frameworks, or structured measurement systems at scale.
• Strong external communication skills; able to represent product methodology credibly to enterprise security teams, skeptical customers, and regulatory reviewers.
• Proven track record moving quickly in an early-stage or startup-pace environment while maintaining rigor.

Nice to haves

• Background in or exposure to psychometrics, learning science, industrial-organizational psychology, or talent assessment (e.g., from companies like HireVue, Pymetrics, Codility, ETS, or Duolingo).
• Familiarity with the EU AI Act, particularly high-risk classification implications for AI systems used in employment or skills contexts.
• Experience working with SME panels, grader programs, or human-in-the-loop calibration workflows.
• Prior work in skills-based hiring platforms or enterprise skills frameworks (LinkedIn, Workday Skills Cloud, etc.).
• Familiarity with NCME or the broader measurement and assessment professional community.
• Experience bridging academic rigor with commercial shipping deadlines.

Compensation

This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

• US Zone 1: $218,800 – $273,500 USD
• US Zone 2: $209,600 – $262,000 USD
• US Zone 3: $194,400 – $243,000 USD
• US Zone 4: $180,800 – $226,000 USD