Channel Sales Manager - India (Delhi NCR/Hyderabad/Bengaluru)

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The Role
Build and execute Coursera's India channel program: recruit and enable partners serving universities, government, and PSEs; drive partner-led revenue; create enablement assets, compliance frameworks, co-sell programs, and joint marketing; negotiate agreements; analyze partner performance and lead executive discussions.
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About Coursera

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to worldclass 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 Join Us

At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter. 

We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.

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.

This is a builder role. You will own the creation and execution of Coursera's India channel program with a primary focus on hunting, recruiting, and converting channel partners who serve Indian Universities, Government bodies, and Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs).  

You will be tasked to refine the partner led 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 channel partners in the University, Government, and PSE sectors in India
  2. Hunt, recruit, and activate Tier II partners who have existing relationships and access to university leadership & administration, state/central government education departments, and PSE L&D/HR/CIO functions
  3. Facilitate partnerships to deliver direct sales opportunities
  4. Reduce friction for our direct teams to sell via partnerships

Responsibilities:

  • Proactively identify, target, and recruit new (including Tier II) channel partners across India including education resellers, university IT/ERP vendors, government-empaneled IT integrators, training institutes with institutional reach, and vendors servicing public sector clients
  • Develop a partner identification playbook for each segment (University, Government, PSE)  
  • Build partner enablement infrastructure: sales playbooks, product training, certification tracks, demo environments, co-branded collateral, and deal registration processes
  • Own the partner compliance framework to ensure all partners meet Coursera's contractual, data privacy, branding, and reporting standards
  • Track and analyze partner performance metrics to optimize channel effectiveness and ROI
  • Ensure partner business plans are developed and conduct regular/quarterly partner business reviews to review performance
  • Work cross functionally to resolve partner issues and ensure exceptional partner experience
  • Negotiate partnership agreements and commercial terms that drive mutual value and growth
  • Develop co-sell partnership focused in India - 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
  • Coordinate with Coursera's internal Implementation Management and Solution Consulting teams to support and identify opportunities for partners to deliver additional value added services
  • Work with Coursera Enterprise & Partner Marketing to develop joint marketing programs to advance channel strategies
  • Evaluate new partnership opportunities, providing guidance to enterprise leadership
  • Lead executive level discussions with partners and prospects to mutually define the winning partnerships.

Basic Qualifications:

  • At least 10+ 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
  • Experience selling into or partnering with organizations that serve Indian Government, Universities, or PSEs with understanding of procurement processes (GeM, tenders, empanelment)

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working with partners primarily focused in India
  • Experience supporting marketing efforts or closely working with marketing teams to achieve goals
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments with limited support infrastructure

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

  • Foundations of Business Strategy
  • Successful Negotiation: Essential Strategies and Skill

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Skills Required

  • At least 10+ 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, demonstrated success in establishing and managing partner relationships
  • Experience selling into or partnering with organizations that serve Indian Government, Universities, or PSEs, including procurement processes (GeM, tenders, empanelment)
  • Experience working with partners primarily focused in India
  • Experience supporting marketing efforts or closely working with marketing teams
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments with limited support infrastructure

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 U.S. job postings outline zone-based salary ranges and a pay-for-performance approach with regular market benchmarking, supporting clarity in how pay is set. Total compensation for many technical and managerial roles is positioned competitively versus peers.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility RSU equity is a standard component alongside bonus, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is available to eligible employees. This broadens ownership and can materially enhance total rewards when company performance is strong.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Policies include unlimited vacation in the U.S. and Canada, company-wide days of rest, sick/medical leave, bereavement, civic time off, and pregnancy/new‑parent leave with transitional part‑time support. These programs offer generous flexibility for time away from work.

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The Company
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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