Senior Director of Talent Management & Employee Experience, Coursera
$180.8-259.8k
Salary dependent on candidates location
Online learning platform
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Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180.8-259.8k
Salary dependent on candidates location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Talent Expertise: 10+ years of leadership in Talent Management, OD, or Employee Experience, with a proven track record of owning enterprise-wide performance and succession initiatives
- Change Leadership: Deep experience navigating the complexities of mergers, acquisitions, or large-scale organizational transformations
- Tech & AI Savvy: A modern perspective on how AI, automation, and workforce analytics can be used to augment human potential and simplify complex People processes
- Executive Influence: The ability to translate dense talent data into strategic narratives that influence C-suite decisions
- People Management: 10+ years of experience leading teams, specifically including the management of other people managers
- Strategic Execution: A rare blend of high-level organizational design thinking and the "roll-up-your-sleeves" grit required for operational execution
What the job involves
- As the Senior Director of Talent Management & Employee Experience, you will shape the next chapter of our organizational story.
- Reporting to the Chief Learning Officer/VP of Performance and Growth, you will lead the charge in unifying two legacy cultures into one cohesive, high-performing entity.
- This is a high-visibility leadership role responsible for the entire employee lifecycle—from performance and internal mobility to engagement and organizational health.
- You will lead a distributed team of managers and individual contributors, leveraging AI-enabled tools to modernize the employee experience
- Talent Strategy & AI Integration: Lead enterprise talent strategies aligned with post-merger priorities, evolving performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning through modern, AI-supported frameworks
- Culture Unification & Engagement: Operationalize cultural behaviors that drive accountability and innovation. Own the employee listening strategy (surveys, action planning, and analytics) to ensure a healthy, connected organizational pulse
- Internal Mobility & Career Pathways: Build transparent growth frameworks and "skills-first" career pathways, partnering with Learning & Development to ensure employees are fluent in emerging capabilities and AI-enabled ways of working
- Workplace Experience Partnership: Collaborate with Workplace Real Estate leadership to align in-office and virtual "hubs," ensuring our physical presence strengthens collaboration and culture
- Organizational Transformation: Act as a lead architect for change management, simplifying People Team workflows through automation while ensuring responsible AI governance
- Leadership & Team Development: Coach and scale a high-performing team of second-line leaders and specialists, fostering a culture of operational excellence and cross-functional partnership
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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