Principal Product Manager, Coursera
$180.8-273.5k
Salary dependent on location. Plus bonus and RSUs.
Online learning platform
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Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$180.8-273.5k
Salary dependent on location. Plus bonus and RSUs.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product management experience, with a meaningful portion in assessment, measurement, or skills validation products
- You have experience building, using, or experimenting or shipping AI-powered or LLM-integrated products, including familiarity with LLM-as-judge evaluation methods and their failure modes
- Deep understanding of how skill and competency measurement works — not just completion tracking, but defensible claims of capability
- Demonstrated ability to define rubrics, evaluation frameworks, or structured measurement systems at scale
- Strong external communication skills; able to represent product methodology credibly to enterprise security teams, skeptical customers, and regulatory reviewers
- Proven track record moving quickly in an early-stage or startup-pace environment while maintaining rigor
- Customer-Centric Curiosity: Exhibit deep curiosity to understand customers and all elements influencing their experience, offering comprehensive, integrated solutions that address real needs
- Thriving in Ambiguity: Operate effectively in uncertain, fast-changing environments, as often found in startup-like situations
- Balanced Skills vs. Domain Experience: While domain expertise is beneficial, strong intellectual capacity, curiosity, proactiveness, and solid foundational product skills enable quick adaptation even without prior domain exposure
- Strategic & Tactical Agility: Seamlessly switch between defining long-term vision and deep-diving into execution details when required
- IC Excellence: As an individual contributor, comfortably navigate between strategy and execution to deliver impact
- Integrated Experience Design: A track record of designing end-to-end integrated experiences is a strong plus
- Tool Familiarity: Familiarity with tools in the PM space, such as Jira, Figma or generative AI tools, though tool-specific experience is less crucial. A capable PM with strong core skills will learn quickly
- Speed of Innovation: Demonstrates the ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate solutions to keep pace with evolving customer needs and emerging technologies. Balances speed with rigor to deliver impactful outcomes quickly
Desirable
- Background in or exposure to psychometrics, learning science, industrial-organizational psychology, or talent assessment (e.g., from companies like HireVue, Pymetrics, Codility, ETS, or Duolingo)
- Familiarity with the EU AI Act, particularly high-risk classification implications for AI systems used in employment or skills contexts
- Experience working with SME panels, grader programs, or human-in-the-loop calibration workflows
- Prior work in skills-based hiring platforms or enterprise skills frameworks (LinkedIn, Workday Skills Cloud, etc.)
- Familiarity with NCME or the broader measurement and assessment professional community
- Experience bridging academic rigor with commercial shipping deadlines
What the job involves
- As a Principal Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Coursera’s product vision, delivering exceptional learner and partner experiences, and driving measurable business impact
- You will operate at the intersection of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, navigating ambiguity while influencing cross-functional teams
- As a Principal Product Manager, you will define and drive product strategy and own the roadmap for a high priority area of the Coursera platform, such as mobile, AI-powered assessment or agentic enterprise integration
- Translate customer insights and market trends into integrated solutions that can scale to serve millions of learners and customers around the world
- Lead execution from ideation and analysis through development and launch, delivering measurable outcomes
- Partner with Engineering, Design, and Data teams to deliver AI-powered product features and experiences
- Leverage data and customer feedback to inform decisions and continuously improve
- Mentor peers and contribute to building a high-performing product organisation
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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