Coursera is a leading online learning platform for higher education, where 77 million learners from around the world come to learn skills of the future. More than 200 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, Specializations, certificates, and degree programs. Thousands of companies trust the company’s enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their talent. Coursera for Government equips government employees and citizens with in-demand skills to build a competitive workforce. Coursera for Campus empowers any university to offer high-quality, job-relevant online education to students, alumni, faculty, and staff. Coursera is backed by leading investors that include Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, Learn Capital, and SEEK Group.
The International Growth team’s charter is to rapidly expand Coursera’s presence globally, partnering closely with marketing, product, partnerships and business teams across Coursera, to improve access to high quality learning experiences to anyone, anywhere.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Product Manager to drive the product strategy, roadmap and execution of Coursera’s consumer experience in priority regions and countries around the world . You will work closely with international learners, customers and our dedicated regional Marketing and Sales team to deeply understand user needs and translate them into a roadmap. You must be adept at managing complex cross-functional initiatives, leading through influence, and have a bias towards data-driven decision making. You should relish a high degree of ambiguity and dive into new problems head-first.
Your responsibilities:
- Spend time talking to global learners and local go to market teams, understanding their problems, and validating that your teams’ solutions solve a real problem for them
- Partner closely with multiple product and engineering teams to adapt the Coursera product for global learners – site messaging, discovery, payments, pricing, packaging and promotion
- Translate local learner and business requirements into platform capabilities that are extensible to multiple geographies
- Work with business teams to establish business goals for priority countries and ensure that we are meeting or exceeding those goals
- Make prioritization and trade-off decisions, balancing the consumer experience, launch complexity and timeline, development effort across multiple product teams, and business value
- Effectively manage stakeholder relationships functionally and at senior levels (VP+)
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of product management experience owning and driving complex products end-to-end across multiple teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to lead a large decentralized group from complex and ambiguous situations to clarity and focus
- Ability to absorb large amounts of information, distill key themes into action plans, and precisely communicate to a wide cross-functional audience
- A drive to question assumptions and validate hypotheses through experimentation and data
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience presenting to executives and diverse cross-functional stakeholders
- Flexibility to accommodate off-hours calls with other geographies
- Experience in consumer products, e-commerce, growth or international expansion highly valued
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera: Critical Thinking in Global Challenges, Software Product Management, High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation
Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at [email protected].
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Toronto /
Product Management – Product Management /
Full-time Exempt
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