Enterprise Account Director, Coursera
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Online learning platform
Posted today
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Enterprise Account Director to join our dynamic sales team
- Problem Solving: You are skilled in creative problem-solving techniques to address client needs, overcome obstacles, and drive sales outcomes, ensuring customer satisfaction and business success
- Coachability: You demonstrate a strong willingness to learn, adapt, and incorporate feedback to enhance strategies and achieve performance targets, fostering continuous personal and professional growth
- Curiosity: You exhibit a natural curiosity and hunger for knowledge, constantly seeking to understand market trends, customer preferences, and competitive analysis to inform strategy and drive business success
- Outbound Mindset: You possess a proactive outbound mindset, driven to identify new business opportunities, cultivate relationships with prospects, effectively communicate value and supported by your research and rigor throughout the process
- AI Proficiency: You demonstrate strong AI literacy by adopting and mastering new sales technologies—such as GenAI, conversational intelligence, and AI-powered tooling—to drive efficiency. You utilize prompt engineering to create personalized messaging and to gain insight for customer meetings. You leverage data-driven insights from AI tools to craft high-impact pitches for C-level executives
- While this work is based more on the skills a person has than what they have done, we think a typical profile could include the following:
- We are looking for a highly motivated, over-achieving "hunter and closer" who flourishes in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- A minimum of 7+ years of closing experience in B2B Enterprise sales (SaaS experience preferred) or equivalent
- Enterprise-style go-to-market playbook that includes value-based selling and leveraging Value Engineers/Solution Engineers in pre-sales
- Experience partnering with other Account Executives in an overlay specialist sales model
- Success in opportunity creation and "full funnel" management of many opportunities
- Strong AI literacy with experience adopting and mastering new sales technologies in enterprise environments
- Proficiency in prompt engineering and interpreting AI-driven insights to enhance enterprise sales effectiveness
- Proven history of exceeding targets in selling licenses/products/subscriptions to Enterprise organizations with demonstrated ownership of all aspects of territory management
- German language skills are a plus, but not essential
What the job involves
- By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale
- Coursera + Udemy lets you choose the best way to work, whether it’s from home, an office, or a collaboration space. We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to come together
- If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for identifying and closing new business opportunities with enterprise-level clients, which are companies with 5,000 employees and above
- You will focus on identifying new business opportunities, in addition to land and expand by fostering relationships to maximize opportunities within these organizations
- Identify, prospect, and qualify new enterprise-level business and upsell opportunities within assigned territory
- Coordinate and work with Coursera Business team (Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Marketing, Product, Deal Desk, Legal, key executives) to ensure territory success; customer satisfaction, expansion and retention
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers to understand clients' business objectives and challenges to effectively position our solutions as a strategic fit
- Develop and execute strategic sales plans to meet and exceed sales targets
- Leverage AI-powered sales technologies, GenAI, and conversational intelligence tools to drive efficiency throughout enterprise sales cycles
- Utilize prompt engineering to create personalized messaging for large enterprise prospects and generate insights for executive meetings
- Apply data-driven insights from AI tools to craft high-impact pitches tailored for C-level executives and key stakeholders
- Lead negotiations and close complex sales deals, ensuring contracts are executed accurately and in a timely manner
- Stay updated on industry trends, market dynamics, customer feedback and competitor activities; then relay and share any insights with your team!
Application process
- Posting Date: 10/27/2026
- Application Window: 11/11/2026
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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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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