Senior Product Designer, Coursera

• 5-8 years experience as a UX (User Experience) / Product Designer
• Able to utilize effective communication and collaboration strategies with cross-functional partners—including product managers, engineers, data scientists, researchers, other designers, and executives—in evolving design proposals. Experience with design and collaboration tools (e.g. Figma, Figjam and others)
• Able to consider and rationalize the technical difficulty of different designs, finding ways to test concepts as simply as possible
• Experience building new products and conducting user research to inform MVP definition and development
• Mastery of UX design skills required to facilitate design workshops, apply solution frameworks, create user flows, define IA, create wireframes, and create prototypes
• Strong visual design / UI skills with experience leveraging and building upon a design system
• Demonstrated expertise designing with a mobile-first lens

Desirable

• The Design & Research teams play a vital role in Coursera’s success
• These teams are responsible for gathering learner & educator insights and translating them into recommendations that help Coursera achieve a seamless experience across its platform
• These teams are divided into three main areas: Product Experience, Learning Content Experience, and Core Foundations
• The experience of learning and transformation is inherently challenging. Your work as a designer will be to create simplicity from complexity and influence everything from the most micro-interaction to full-enterprise learning programs with thousands of employee learners
• Our goal is to make education accessible to all and we need extraordinary designers to realize this
• Work through design problems from beginning to end, translating qualitative and quantitative data and high-level concepts into workflows, visual designs, and detailed interactions that create delightful user experiences
• Navigate the initial ambiguous phases of design to define product vision and strategy, aligning business and customer needs
• Partner with cross-functional teams—including product managers, engineers, data scientists, and researchers—to deliver products from concept to launch
• Create globally scalable, locally relevant, and inclusive experiences that drive business growth
• Balance prioritization and delivery across multiple projects while driving strategic outcomes as a Design Lead
• Mentor designers on best practices, raising the bar for design quality and outcomes