Staff Product Manager, Partnerships

About the Company

Coursera and Udemy have combined to create one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This merger strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills. Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning.

Coursera partners with leading universities and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Platform innovations like AI-powered personalized guidance, Role Play, Course Builder, and role-based solutions such as Skills Tracks enable scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields like GenAI, data science, technology, and business.

Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Why Join Us

At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions, turning bold ideas into real impact. We value customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.

Our globally distributed team collaborates intentionally for complex problem-solving and key milestones, creating opportunities to do your best work. Virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join and start making an impact from anywhere.

Team Overview

Coursera’s Product Management team drives our mission of providing universal access to world-class learning and skills development. Senior and Staff Product Managers lead high-impact product initiatives, balancing strategic vision with hands-on problem-solving to create integrated learner, partner, and enterprise-level experiences. They partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, and Business stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions in an evolving, AI-driven education landscape.

About the Role

As a Staff Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Coursera’s product vision, delivering exceptional learner and partner experiences, and driving measurable business impact. You will operate at the intersection of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, navigating ambiguity while influencing cross-functional teams.

• Creator-Centric UX Thinking: You think in experiences, not just features. You have a strong point of view on what good authoring and creation tools feel like and the patience to pressure-test that instinct with real creators until the product earns trust. You collaborate fluently with design partners and push back when something that works technically doesn’t work humanly.
• Revenue Awareness: You understand how the products you build connect to the business, whether it’s creator retention, content quality driving learner outcomes, or new monetization surfaces. You draw a line from product decisions to commercial impact and use that to prioritize.
• Customer-Centric Curiosity: Exhibit deep curiosity to understand customers and all elements influencing their experience, offering comprehensive, integrated solutions that address real needs.
• Thriving in Ambiguity: Operate effectively in uncertain, fast-changing environments, as often found in startup-like situations.
• Balanced Skills vs. Domain Experience: While domain expertise is beneficial, strong intellectual capacity, curiosity, proactiveness, and solid foundational product skills enable quick adaptation even without prior domain exposure.
• Strategic & Tactical Agility: Seamlessly switch between defining long-term vision and deep-diving into execution details when required.
• IC Excellence: As an individual contributor, comfortably navigate between strategy and execution to deliver impact.
• Integrated Experience Design: A track record of designing end-to-end integrated experiences is a strong plus.
• Tool Familiarity: Familiarity with tools like Jira, Figma, or generative AI tools, though tool-specific experience is less crucial. A capable PM with strong core skills will learn quickly.
• Speed of Innovation: Demonstrate the ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate solutions to keep pace with evolving customer needs and emerging technologies. Balance speed with rigor to deliver impactful outcomes quickly.

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.
• Own the end-to-end content creation experience for Udemy & Coursera—from how instructors and creators author content to how AI assists and adapts that content for learners—defining what "great" looks like at every step.
• Make independent product calls in a fast-moving environment, bringing cross-functional partners along through clear reasoning and well-structured communication rather than consensus-by-committee.
• Translate customer insights and market trends into integrated solutions that can scale to serve millions of learners and customers worldwide.
• 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.

Requirements

• Experience building, using, or experimenting with AI-driven products, particularly in workflow automation, conversational AI, decision support, or agentic AI, and transitioning from traditional UI to AI-driven or AI-first product.
• Experience taking a product from zero to launch in an environment where the path wasn’t clear. You defined the problem, made the bet, built the team’s confidence, and shipped it. You can point to what worked, what didn’t, and what you’d do differently.
• A high bar across the board—from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on.

Preferred Qualifications

• You inspire colleagues to think bigger, look beyond safe bets, and tackle challenges with conviction. You are a builder, not an optimizer.
• A strong aesthetic sensibility and deep respect for craft in UX. You’ve worked closely with designers as a genuine creative partner, and your products show it.
• Understanding of creator psychology. Whether it’s course authors, instructional designers, or subject-matter experts, you know what makes creation tools feel enabling rather than obstructive, and you’ve shipped products that creators actually want to use.
• Commercial literacy. You can connect product choices to revenue outcomes without reducing every decision to a business case. You know when to push for a quality call that doesn’t have an immediate ROI and when that’s the wrong call.
• Energized by solving hard problems and navigating ambiguity and rapid technology change.
• Deep curiosity about customers and the positive impact your product could have on their lives. You dive deep into data and feedback to ground your understanding of their needs and experience using your products.
• A sense of responsibility and urgency to invent the future of AI as a force for unlocking human potential and expanding opportunity.

Benefits

All regular employees are eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSUs. A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, including job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set, and internal equity.

Pay

US Zone 2 - 4: $212,000 – $265,000 USD annual base salary.

Current Zone Locations:

• Zone 1: San Francisco Bay Area only
• Zone 2: New York City Metro and Seattle Metro
• Zone 3: CA (outside of SF Bay Area), CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, NY/NJ (outside of NYC Metro), OR, RI, TX, VA, WA (outside of Seattle Metro)
• Zone 4: All other US locations not listed in Zones 1–3