Principal Product Manager

About Coursera

• Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era.
• This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change.
• Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog .
• Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to worldclass learning.
• Coursera partners with leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees.
• Coursera's platform innovations — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning.
• Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers.
• Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.
• Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms.

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.
• People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.
• We're a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together.
• Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere.
• If you're ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
• 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 Principal Product Manager , you will play a pivotal role in shaping Coursera's content ecosystem, with a focus on the authoring and content production tools that power the creation of learning experiences.
• Your work will enable Coursera and our partners to bring high-quality, career-aligned content to market faster, scale interactive and adaptive formats, and unlock new possibilities for developing learning at scale.

Your mission?

• Build the future of how content is authored, optimized, and ingested onto Coursera .
• You'll help expand the breadth, freshness, and relevance of our catalog.
• You'll lead initiatives that empower educators, subject matter experts, and enterprise customers to create engaging content, while also advancing how Coursera harnesses AI to deliver high-quality, trusted content for learners worldwide.
• Your north star? Empowering authors to deliver high-quality, career-aligned content at scale .
• 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

• Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Coursera's Authoring team.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive product

requirements

to improve and/or innovate on the user experience based on a deep understanding of the customer.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Research, Content, Product Marketing and Support & Services teams to deliver performant and high-quality content production and ingestion experiences.
• Monitor and improve content production and ingestion metrics. Effectively communicate progress, learnings, and tradeoffs cross-functionally and to senior leaders to foster alignment.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience working in product management of tech products, including developing and prioritizing product roadmaps.
• Proficient in customer discovery, data analytics, and hypothesis testing.
• Customer-centric. Develops a deep understanding of the needs of internal and external customers including partners and enterprise users and uses this to identify opportunities and deliver impact.
• Strong problem-solving skills, using sound judgment to navigate complex challenges, assess risks, and present clear, data-driven solutions in a fast-paced environment.
• An "owner" mindset. You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master simplifier, and someone who pushes towards clarity and delivery.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building products in EdTech, learning technologies or content authoring tools
• Experience with B2B2C business model
• Experience building, using, or experimenting with AI-driven products, particularly in the areas of content generation and editing, adaptive learning and personalization, automated quality assurance, and multimodal authoring support such as AI for video, audio, and translation.

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If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

• Learning How To Learn
• Gen AI for Product Managers

• The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
• Salary is just one component of Coursera's total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU's.
• A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes: job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set and internal equity.

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