Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.
We’re a global platform aiming to transform lives through learning by offering transformative courses, certificates, and degrees that empower learners worldwide to advance their careers through skill mastery. We’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners eager to shape the future of education. If you’re ready to build the global programs and tools that fuel the power of online learning, join Team Coursera.
At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration.
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Job Overview:
Coursera’s Enterprise Marketing team connects businesses, universities and governments with our world-class learning products, content and solutions. Enterprise Marketers play an important role in accelerating the growth and market share of the Enterprise Business globally with innovative marketing programs to attract, retain, and expand relationships across all segments.
As the Sr. Director, Global Regional Marketing & Events, you will play an integral role as a member of the marketing leadership team. You will lead and manage a high-performing team across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, driving lead generation, pipeline acceleration, and revenue growth through strategic regional field marketing programs and impactful global events. This role develops and executes a comprehensive regional marketing strategy aligned with overall business objectives, collaborating closely with other marketing teams to execute integrated campaigns that support our sales objectives. With a focus on data-driven decision-making, this leader leverages analytics to measure program effectiveness, optimizes resource allocation, and ensure brand consistency while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the field marketing and events organization.
If you are excited by the fast pace of building a global business that is having an impact on the world, we’d love to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage a global team of regional marketers across Americas, EMEA, and APAC, providing mentorship, coaching, and performance management.
- Develop and execute a comprehensive global & regional marketing strategy aligned with overall business objectives, driving lead generation, pipeline acceleration, and revenue growth.
- Oversee the planning, execution, and measurement of regional marketing programs, including regional digital campaigns, email, nurture programs, webinars, executive roundtables, industry events and more to drive customer and prospect engagement.
- Direct the development and execution of a global events strategy, including trade shows, conferences, and Coursera-hosted events, ensuring alignment with brand messaging and marketing goals.
- Manage the regional marketing budget, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and maximizing ROI on marketing investments across all regions and events.
- Collaborate and communicate closely with sales, product marketing, and global marketing teams to develop integrated marketing programs that support regional business objectives and drive customer acquisition and retention. Providing insights on campaign, program and event performance.
- Global travel will be required for industry events, client meetings, and team offsites (estimated 40% travel)
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years Enterprise SaaS global marketing experience in a fast-growth, highly matrixed environment
- 7+ years experience leading global events
- 8+ years of experience in a Marketing team leadership - ideally across multiple geographic regions
- Must be in Central OR Eastern Time Zone
Preferred Qualifications:
- 15+ years of Enterprise SaaS global marketing experience in a fast-growth, highly matrixed environment
- Proven experience building high performing and highly collaborative teams, ability to travel internationally to support region field marketing teams and key events
- Proven experience across regional marketing and events disciplines along with experience working closely with sales teams
- Proven experience engaging, collaborating and communicating at all levels of the organization including cross functional teams, executive leadership and customers, prospects and partners
- Proven experience working in a highly matrixed environment, including expertise in leading through others and a track record of leading successful cross-functional programs with measurable success
- Proven experience leveraging data driven decision making skills to optimize marketing results to support scalable growth
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
- Storytelling and Influencing: Communicate with Impact
- Leadership through Marketing
- Strategic Innovation: Managing Innovation Initiatives
- Marketing in a Digital World
- Artificial Intelligence in Marketing
[FOR US ROLES ONLY]
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$170,000 - 213,000 USD
US Zone 3
$148,800 - 186,000 USD
The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Salary is just one component of Coursera’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU’s.
A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes: job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set and internal equity.
Current Zone Locations:
- Zone 1- San Francisco Metro, New York City Metro or Seattle Metro
- Zone 2 - CA (outside of SF Bay Area), CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, NY/NJ (other than NYC), OR, RI, TX, VA, WA (other than Seattle)
- Zone 3 - all other US locations
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