Product Manager, Coursera
Consumer Home
$116-146k
Online learning platform
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Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$116-146k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience with product management, including developing and prioritizing product backlogs
- Demonstrated history of collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., engineering, design, marketing)
- Background in conducting user research and making data-driven product decisions
- Proficiency in developing and communicating product strategies and requirements
- Experience coordinating go-to-market plans and feature rollouts
Desirable
- Data-driven. You have experience using a combination of quantitative (A/B testing and multivariate experimentation) as well as qualitative research methods to prioritize and validate ideas
- 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
- A never-ending desire to grow, learn, and change
What the job involves
- As an IC3 Product Manager (Consumer) II at Coursera, you will drive product innovation by identifying opportunities to enhance user experience and team efficiency
- You will manage product strategies, prioritize features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align with our broader product vision
- Your focus will be on user-centric design, data-driven decisions, and the smooth coordination of new feature rollouts
- The Home Pod at Coursera owns the strategy, vision and roadmap for Coursera Home – the key surface which enables learners to onboard, discover new content, and continue learning
- The Home Pod’s mission is twofold: 1) to inspire learners by helping them discover new content to learn that is highly relevant and personalized to their needs and 2) to enable learners to quickly pick up on their learning journey and stay motivated to keep learning
- The PM at Home also works collaboratively across other teams and segments (Consumer, Degrees, Enterprise) to understand their needs and think about how to best incorporate those needs into home
- You will play a key role in fostering a collaborative environment, advocating for continuous
- Lead the overall “Home” product at Coursera – how does home evolve to help learners discover & learn content?
- Lead product innovation initiatives to improve user experience and team efficiency
- Own the product backlog, prioritizing features to align with user needs and business objectives
- Develop and deliver comprehensive product strategies and requirements for key features.Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and marketing teams to drive seamless product execution
- Conduct user research and analyze feedback to advocate for user-centric design and inform decision-making
- Create and oversee go-to-market plans for new features to ensure successful rollouts
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 values
- Betterment - We work with persistence to improve ourselves, our teams, and our products
- Boldness - We strive for greatness by facing challenges with courage and determination
- Deep honesty - We are truthful and sincere with learners, partners, and our fellow teammates
- Solidarity - We go the extra mile for each other as we work to transform lives through learning
Company HQ
Mountain View, CA
Articles
Leadership
Andrew Ng
(Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
People progressing
Joined as an Enterprise Implementation Manager. Promoted three times to Senior Manager within four years. Less than 2 years later, they were promoted to Director of Professional Services.
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