Staff Product Manager, Coursera
Search
$156-235.5k
Salary dependent on location. Plus bonus and RSU equity programs
Online learning platform
Be an early applicant
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$156-235.5k
Salary dependent on location. Plus bonus and RSU equity programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- The best candidates are extremely hands‑on, obsessed with the learner journey, and opinionated about how AI can make finding the right course, credential, or skill path effortless for a global, multilingual audience
- You've built consumer products at scale - ideally high‑intent search or marketplace experiences and deeply understand what makes discovery intuitive, trustworthy, and indispensable
- You've shipped experiences people love and return to
- You bring an "owner" mindset: biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master simplifier, and someone who pushes towards clarity and delivery
- You are user-first, understand and speak in terms of user value propositions, and creatively inspire users to try the product
- You hold a high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on
- 5+ years of product management experience with direct responsibility over the success of a consumer-facing product and driving revenue
- 2+ years of PM experience working on search, personalization, or recommendation features
- 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
- 4+ years in a product team at a large ecommerce company (preferred)
- 0-to-1 experience taking products from idea to launch, with proven results post-launch (preferred)
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or relevant field (preferred)
What the job involves
- In this pivotal role, you will set the strategic vision for Coursera's search experience across our diverse product suite by working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless, personalized and ML/AI driven learner experience
- You will collaborate with engineering, design, research, data science, ML, 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 content by creating a compelling, hyper-relevant and personalized search experience
- Own conversational search across Coursera, working with other product teams to ensure a seamless and integrated AI experience for learners throughout the learner journey
- Improve the accuracy of search results through innovative tactics, leveraging advances in IR/ML, embeddings, and LLMs to improve query understanding, semantic and multilingual search, personalized ranking, and much more
- Employ rapid experimentation techniques to understand evolving market trends, user behaviors, and potential opportunities
- 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
(Co-Founder & Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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