Senior Product Designer, Coursera
$112-140k
Online learning platform
Job no longer available
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$112-140k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8 years experience as a UX (User Experience) / Product Designer
Desirable
- 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
- Experience as a course instructor or teaching assistant
- Experience designing with emerging technologies, e.g. GenAI
- Depending on the topic area you are interested in: experience designing for consumer SaaS product(s), enterprise products or consumer mobile
What the job involves
- 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
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
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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