Senior Product Manager, Coursera
Notifications
$126-198k
Salary is dependent on location; Eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU’s
Online learning platform
Be an early applicant
Online learning platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$126-198k
Salary is dependent on location; Eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU’s
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-transforming learning experiences to learners around the world.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of product management experience, including ownership of a platform or internal tooling product
- Experience working with messaging technologies (e.g., email systems, push notifications, or in-app messaging)
- Strong technical fluency; able to work closely with engineering on system design and integration
- Proven ability to define strategy, manage roadmaps, and execute cross-functional projects
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with data-driven decision-making and A/B testing
Desirable
- Experience with messaging infrastructure tools (e.g., Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Amplitude).Familiarity with legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CAN-SPAM).Track record of defining governance standards across distributed product teams.Experience working on consumer-facing products
What the job involves
- As the Senior Product Manager for Coursera’s Notification Platform, you will lead the strategy and execution of how we communicate with learners across email, push, and in-app channels
- This role is part of the Engagement team at Coursera and is critical to driving engagement and retention for learners throughout their journey
- You’ll work cross-functionally with Engineering, Marketing, Data Science, and Core Product teams to build a unified, scalable, and compliant notification system
- Your work will ensure that learners receive timely, relevant, and high-quality messaging—from transactional confirmations to behavioral nudges and lifecycle campaigns
- This is a highly visible, systems-oriented role that combines product craft, platform thinking, and user empathy to support both our consumer and enterprise businesses
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Coursera’s Notification Platform (email, push, in-app messaging)
- Work with product teams across Coursera to define when and how transactional messages are triggered across core user flows
- Collaborate with marketing and lifecycle teams to support campaign delivery and personalization
- Collaborate with design on standardizing notification templates (e.g. emails)
- Define and maintain notification standards, templates, and governance to ensure consistency, clarity, and brand alignment
- Monitor and improve performance metrics such as deliverability, engagement, latency, and unsubscribe rates
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
(Chairman)CEO of Landing AI (helping companies adopt AI). Also a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford.
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