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 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 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:
As the Senior Director of Talent Management & Employee Experience, you will shape the next chapter of our organizational story. Reporting to the Chief Learning Officer/VP of Performance and Growth, you will lead the charge in unifying two legacy cultures into one cohesive, high-performing entity. This is a high-visibility leadership role responsible for the entire employee lifecycle—from performance and internal mobility to engagement and organizational health. You will lead a distributed team of managers and individual contributors, leveraging AI-enabled tools to modernize the employee experience.
Responsibilities:
- Talent Strategy & AI Integration: Lead enterprise talent strategies aligned with post-merger priorities, evolving performance management, talent reviews, and succession planning through modern, AI-supported frameworks.
- Culture Unification & Engagement: Operationalize cultural behaviors that drive accountability and innovation. Own the employee listening strategy (surveys, action planning, and analytics) to ensure a healthy, connected organizational pulse.
- Internal Mobility & Career Pathways: Build transparent growth frameworks and "skills-first" career pathways, partnering with Learning & Development to ensure employees are fluent in emerging capabilities and AI-enabled ways of working.
- Workplace Experience Partnership: Collaborate with Workplace Real Estate leadership to align in-office and virtual "hubs," ensuring our physical presence strengthens collaboration and culture.
- Organizational Transformation: Act as a lead architect for change management, simplifying People Team workflows through automation while ensuring responsible AI governance.
- Leadership & Team Development: Coach and scale a high-performing team of second-line leaders and specialists, fostering a culture of operational excellence and cross-functional partnership.
Basic Qualifications:
- Talent Expertise: 10+ years of leadership in Talent Management, OD, or Employee Experience, with a proven track record of owning enterprise-wide performance and succession initiatives.
- Change Leadership: Deep experience navigating the complexities of mergers, acquisitions, or large-scale organizational transformations.
- Tech & AI Savvy: A modern perspective on how AI, automation, and workforce analytics can be used to augment human potential and simplify complex People processes.
- Executive Influence: The ability to translate dense talent data into strategic narratives that influence C-suite decisions.
- People Management: 10+ years of experience leading teams, specifically including the management of other people managers.
- Strategic Execution: A rare blend of high-level organizational design thinking and the "roll-up-your-sleeves" grit required for operational execution.
Compensation:
US Zone 1: $218,800 - $259,825
US Zone 2: $209,600 - $248,900
US Zone 3: $194,400 - $230,850
US Zone 4: $180,800 - $214,700
At Coursera, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level across four U.S. pay zones. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary, with comprehensive health and wellness benefits, bonus and RSU equity programs, and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.
- US-Z1: Bay Area
- US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro
- US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA
- US-Z4: AK, AZ, DE, FL, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NV, NH, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, UT, VT, WI
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To protect against recruitment fraud, Coursera + Udemy recruiters only communicate via official coursera.org/udemy.com email addresses and never through personal accounts. We do not accept resumes via email or social media; please submit all applications directly through our careers page.
If you encounter suspicious recruitment activity, please report it via our Fraudulent Activity Submission Form.
Coursera is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a welcoming and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request at [email protected].
Skills Required
- 10+ years of leadership in Talent Management, OD, or Employee Experience
- Experience navigating mergers, acquisitions, or large-scale organizational transformations
- Deep experience in utilizing AI and automation in HR processes
- 10+ years of people management experience
- Demonstrated ability to influence C-suite decisions with talent data
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Coursera Insights
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. 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.
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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