Channel Sales and Alliances Manager, Northern Europe

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Consumer Web • Edtech • Enterprise Web • Social Impact
Transform lives through learning.
The Role

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. 

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:

The Coursera Enterprise team serves global organizations, including leading Corporations, Universities, and Governments, who seek to upskill or reskill their workforce with the world’s best education. The Enterprise team is made up of several functional roles including: Sales, Sales Development, Customer Success, Channel, Implementation Management, Solution Consulting and Revenue Strategy & Operations. The teams operate globally.

You will be responsible for making our go-to-market partnerships successful and accelerating Enterprise revenue. 

You will be tasked with interfacing with the enterprise sales and channel organizations of our industry partners to refine the overall enterprise go-to-market, build out sales and lead processes, identify needed marketing interventions, and then work directly with our partner sales reps and internal sales reps to drive leads and close deals. In addition, you will be responsible for analyzing other new business opportunities that might accelerate the enterprise business, providing recommendations on these opportunities, and closing new partnerships where appropriate.

Enterprise Channel goals:

  1. Drive indirect Coursera revenue from Industry partners in the corporate, higher education and government sectors
  2. Facilitate partnerships to deliver direct sales opportunities
  3. Reduce friction for our direct teams to sell via partnerships

Responsibilities:

  • Develop strategy and help lead early stage Enterprise channel team to become key enabler of Coursera Enterprise revenue.  Work closely with our Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) direct sales teams and leadership
  • Develop co-sell partnerships focused in Europe  - Co-Sell partnerships align go to market strategies for Coursera’s direct sales force and our partners where we can provide joint value to customers
  • Support the development of reseller channels within Europe
  • Identify, recruit and lead contract negotiations with possible partners.
  • Work with partners in our three primary Enterprise verticals: Corporate, University & Government
  • Contribute to Partner enablement for their success partnering with Coursera
  • Work with Coursera Enterprise Marketing to develop joint marketing programs to advance channel strategies
  • Streamline sales operations and execution process and any escalating critical issues to scale joint sales partnerships
  • Evaluate new partnership opportunities, providing guidance to enterprise leadership
  • Lead executive level discussions with partners and prospects to mutually define the winning partnerships. 
  • Negotiate new channel partnership structures

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 5+ years of related experience in technology partner management/sales, business development, or consulting
  • Experience setting up and managing successful joint sales and go to market engagements
  • Experience working with enterprise sales organizations and familiar with enterprise technology sales engagement models
  • Strong enterprise selling and client relationship skills, and demonstrated success in establishing and managing partner relationships
  • Business Fluency in English and one other European language

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working with partners primarily focused in Northern Europe
  • Experience supporting marketing efforts or closely working with marketing teams to achieve goals
  • Experience engaging with University and Government focused partners
  • Additional business fluency in Spanish

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

  • Foundations of Business Strategy
  • Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skills
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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].
 
For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here.
For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.
 

Coursera Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Coursera and has not been reviewed or approved by Coursera.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is considered competitive across many roles, supported by structured market benchmarking and clearly defined U.S. pay zones. Ongoing investment in compensation programs and market‑aligned ranges for in‑demand functions reinforce this positioning.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time away programs include unlimited vacation (U.S./Canada), company days of rest, paid sick time, and paid parental leave with transitional part‑time support. This breadth of leave options contributes meaningful non‑cash value to the package.
  • Flexible Benefits A remote‑first approach is enabled through coworking access, connectivity stipends, and home‑office reimbursements. This flexibility stands out as a core strength of the total rewards offering.

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HQ: Mountain View, California
1,300 Employees
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with 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 — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like 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. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.

Why Work With Us

People who thrive at here are customer-first builders who deeply understand our learners and partners, translate their needs into simple, high-impact solutions, and refuse to stop at “good enough.” They own outcomes end to end, move fast, simplify ruthlessly and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter to invent the future of learning.

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