Senior Product Manager, Instructional Learning

Launched in 2012 by two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Coursera is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 168 million registered learners. Our mission is to provide universal access to world-class learning. We partner with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations and Professional Certificates degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.

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.

As a mission-driven company, we’re passionate about making a positive impact in learners’ lives by unlocking opportunity through learning. We’re looking for self-motivated, curious, and bold problem solvers — people who are driven by purpose, energized by complex challenges, and deeply committed to putting learners at the center of everything they do. If you’re excited to reimagine how education can better serve everyone, everywhere and want to build products that drive real-world impact, you’ll thrive here.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Coursera’s content ecosystem and learning experience that powers our platform. Your work will enable us to deliver engaging and deeply personalized experiences, supercharged by AI, that keep learners coming back and progressing with confidence.

Your mission? Build the future of how core instructional content is authored, delivered, and experienced on Coursera. Instructional content consists of core educational materials designed to convey knowledge and concepts and are structured to guide learners through foundational understanding. From text materials and video lectures to emerging content formats, you will define and scale the infrastructure that powers every core instructional modality. Your scope spans authoring workflows, video pipelines, subtitle generation, and seamless playback across platforms. You will championinnovation in instructional formats, localization, and accessibility—ensuring every course item is high-quality, engaging, and available to learners everywhere in their preferred language.

Your north star? Drive measurable gains in learner retention through instructional content excellence and innovation.

If you thrive on solving complex problems, navigating uncertainty, collaborating in a tight-knit team, and are excited to shape Coursera’s next wave of product offerings, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the vision and roadmap for instructional content types, from scalable infrastructure and tooling that powers content authoring, delivery, and iteration, to a delightful and engaging learner experience.
• Discover, validate, and launch innovative new instructional content formats that improve engagement, mastery, and retention.
• Build and maintain robust translation and dubbing infrastructure and E2E learner experience to deliver global access to Coursera-hosted courses.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data Science Research, Product Marketing and Support & Services teams to deliver performant, accessible, and high-quality learning experiences.
• Explore and leverage AI to augment, enhance or automate parts of the execution and/or the user experience to push the boundary of what is possible while solving real learner problems.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in product management on tech products, including developing and prioritizing product backlogs.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive product strategies and requirements for key features to improve and/or innovate on the user experience.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and marketing teams to drive seamless product execution.
• Conduct user research and analyze feedback to advocate for user-centric design and inform decision-making.
• Create and oversee go-to-market plans for new features to ensure successful rollouts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong problem-solving skills, using sound judgment to navigate complex challenges, assess risks, and present clear, data-driven solutions in a structured format.
• 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.0-to-1.
• You have taken products from idea to launch, with proven results post-launch.An “owner” mindset.
• You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master simplifier, and someone who pushes towards clarity and delivery.
• User-first. You understand and speak in terms of user value propositions, and to creatively inspire users to try the product. You take on complex product challenges and find elegant, simplifying solutions to avoid making them our users and partners’ problems.
• A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on.

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

• Learning How To Learn
• Gen AI for Product Managers
• Data Analysis with Python

Compensation:

Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. This role's targeted hiring base salary range is between $113,000 and $142,000 The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.