Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, 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 92 million registered learners as of Sept. 30, 2021. Coursera partners with over 250 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including Guided Projects, courses, Specializations, certificates, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in many high-demand fields, including data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.

Coursera’s enterprise business is growing at a meteoric pace, and the Product Management team works to help companies, governments, and nonprofits transform their talent. This team leads our efforts to build a product experience that enables enterprise customers of all sizes across the globe to offer the world’s best education to their employees.

As a Director of Product Management for the Enterprise Product, you will lead the effort to build out a product experience that enables businesses, and governments to offer the world’s best, lifelong education to their employees and citizens. You will be responsible for building and managing the strategy and the roadmap for our product focused on Businesses and Governments to help them achieve success in upskilling and reskilling their learners through our platform. This includes building an in-depth understanding of our customer’s pain points and synthesizing them to create both an annual roadmap and a 3 year vision. This role requires a high level of awareness of the competitive HR Tech landscape and being able to help Coursera leadership take build, buy, partner decisions to deliver a differentiated product value for our customers. This role will be responsible for setting the product vision and strategy and lead & manage a team of product managers to execute on the vision. 

You will collaborate with engineering, design and cross-functional leadership teams to build, manage and execute on a big-thinking roadmap and build great solutions, making adjustments along the way based on the results of experiments and on feedback from learners, instructors, university and industry partners, and partners organizations, worldwide.

Your work will empower and motivate enterprise customer organizations (and their teams) to take timely and impactful actions in response to learner activity, and to shepherd people along their learning journeys to achieve mastery and career advancement.

Responsibilities:

• Think strategically - Develop a great sense for where the HR teach market is going and how Coursera can be a very strong player in the value chain
• Think Big – Translate customer needs, market signals and competitive landscape into product needs today and for the next 3 years
• Ruthlessly Prioritize – There’s no shortage of great ideas. Identify the highest leverage ideas and work cross-functionally to set our product roadmap
• Understand the Business – Develop a deep understanding of the value of Coursera to employers, students, instructors and universities to inform the development and evaluation of potential business models
• Ship Product – Manage the end-to-end process of conceptualizing products, acting as the glue between technical and non-technical teams
• Develop a Shared Vision – Work across the organization to build understanding and enthusiasm for the products being built.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management experience
• 2+ years of experience managing a team of 2-3 product managers

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years in the HR Tech space e.g. ATS, LMS, LXP or HRIS
• Strong strategic thinking and ability to distill strategy into action and business value
• Strong business leadership skills with ability to understand and grow businesses
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills 
• Structured and analytical thinker
• Technical background a plus

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• Critical Thinking in Global Challenges
• Software Product Management
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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.

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