Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 191 million registered learners as of September 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 375 leading universities and industry partners to offer a broad catalogue of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including generative AI-powered features like Coach, Role Play, and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. 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.
Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.
Job Overview:
As a Staff 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities:
- As a Staff Product Manager, you will define and drive product strategy and own the roadmap for a high priority area of the Coursera platform, such as 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 organization.
Basic Qualifications:
- You have experience building, using, or experimenting with AI-driven products, particularly in the areas of workflow automation, conversational AI, decision support, or agentic AI, and transitioning from traditional UI to AI-driven or AI-first product.
- You have a high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on.
- You are the product leader who inspires colleagues to think bigger, look beyond safe bets and tackle challenges with conviction. You are a builder, not an optimizer.
- You are energized about solving hard problems and navigating ambiguity and rapid technology change.
- You have taken products from idea to launch (0-1), with proven results post-launch. Experience working in a start-up or internal innovation environment with high ambiguity, velocity and ownership.
- You are deeply curious about customers and the positive impact your product could have on their lives. You dive deep into data and feedback to ground your understanding of their needs and experience using your products.
- You feel a sense of responsibility and urgency to invent the future of AI as a force for unlocking human potential and expanding opportunity.
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
- Learning How To Learn
- Gen AI for Product Managers
Compensation:
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$155,200 - $194,000 USD
US Zone 3
$146,000 - $182,500 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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