Staff Product Manager, Coursera
Discovery
$145-194k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus program + Equity in the form of RSU’s
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Online learning platform
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Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$145-194k
Salary dependent on location + Bonus program + Equity in the form of RSU’s
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of product management experience with direct responsibility over the success of a consumer-facing product and driving revenue
- Hands-on experience driving growth through tactics like promotions, on site marketing campaigns, etc
- Proven track record of successfully delivering complex and impactful product initiatives from ideation to launch
- Experience using a combination of quantitative (A/B testing and multivariate experimentation) as well as qualitative research methods to prioritize and validate ideas
- Demonstrated ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams through communication and collaboration
- Direct experience in scaling platform-level capabilities that serve multiple use cases
Desirable
- 4+ years in a product team at a large e-commerce company
- 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 partner's problems
- A high bar across the board -- from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or relevant field
What the job involves
- In this pivotal role, you will set the strategic vision for Coursera's B2C discovery experience across our diverse product suite by working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless, personalized and ML-driven learner experience
- You will also be responsible for maximizing enrollment, activation, and conversion of our paid product offerings
- Your expertise in product management and passion for data-driven, user-first solutions will be essential in evolving our discovery capabilities to meet the dynamic needs of learners worldwide
- You will collaborate with engineering, design, research, data science, program management and university partnership teams to contribute to the development of your product roadmap
- You will be in close collaboration with marketing, partnership managers, and growth product teams to ensure the successful growth of the product
- Set the vision for next-generation capabilities that help users discover the right learning programs for them and create compelling moments for enrollment across Coursera
- Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy to drive B2C revenue growth through scalable on-platform merchandising tactics that leverage ML to optimize their performance
- Employ rapid experimentation techniques to understand evolving market trends , user behaviors, and potential opportunities. Use this data-driven approach to optimize our strategies for growth and steer product success
- Utilize market trends and competitor analysis to identify opportunities for revenue growth and innovative ways to personalize the learner experience
- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of conversion and merchandising efforts to make data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement
- Work closely with Marketing and other Product teams to align conversion strategies with overall business objectives and revenue targets
Our take
Coursera was founded by Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng in 2012 with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world. It partners with universities and other educational institutions to deliver online courses to 40 million students, covering subjects like technology, business, science, and even autonomous cars.
Coursera sees itself as helping people get ready for the next wave of technological advancement. It is preparing individuals, companies, and governments to meet that challenge head-on and turn this disruption into opportunity. To help achieve this, it also has specific product offerings for the corporate market, as well as for governments and nonprofits.
The model of online courses that anyone can attend is very scalable, making Coursera appealing to investors, especially when the online education market is expected to be worth $20bn+ by 2023. Further, it received B Corp certification in February 2021, propelling its efforts to reduce barriers to high quality education.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
30% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2020
$130m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$103m
SERIES E
Total funding: $443.1m
Company benefits
- Coursera covers the cost of tuition so you can earn a free master’s degree and develop new skills. That’s on top of free, lifelong access to courses and certificates on the platform
- We offer medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents. Plus, free access to counseling and mental health services
- Get up to 16 weeks of fully-paid parental leave when you grow your family and bring a new child into your life
- We host Make-a-thon events twice a year to promote community and innovation. During Make-a-thon, you’ll dedicate time to attend workshops, work on passion projects, and pursue ideas outside of your day-to-day work
- Take paid time off when you need it. We have time off policies that promote flexibility so you can tailor your work schedule when life calls
- Our flexibility extends to where you work. You can choose to work from home, work from one of our offices, or try a combination of the two
- Employees earn company stock, so you can own what we build together and share in our success
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Andrew Ng
(Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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