Senior Strategic Project Manager

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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
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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.
Location: Coursera + Udemy lets you choose the best way to work, whether it's from home, an office, or a collaboration space. We're a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones - creating opportunities for teams to come together. If you're ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
Job Overview:
We are looking for a Strategic Project Manager to join our team. This role will drive the execution of Coursera's most critical, company-level strategic initiatives that span 1-2 quarters and multiple top-level functions. From day one, the Strategic Project Manager will have an immediate impact on our ability to execute these strategic priorities effectively and efficiently.
This role reports to the VP, Chief of Staff. Success will be measured through the following:

• Strategic initiative completion (on time, high quality)
• Template/tool adoption and scaling
• Stakeholder satisfaction (especially the Executive Team)

Objectives:

• Drive execution excellence for a major new product introduction (NPI)
• Create and manage sophisticated project infrastructure for complex, cross-functional work
• Enable effective stakeholder coordination and communication across all levels
• Ensure systematic tracking, reporting, and risk management
• Build scalable templates and tools that enable organizational execution capability

Responsibilities:
Execute strategic initiatives that meet specific selection criteria:

• CEO and / or Executive Team priorities
• Multi-quarter transformations spanning 3+ functions
• Material to company metrics or business model

Design and maintain project management infrastructure:

• Detailed project plans and timelines
• Status reporting and dashboards
• Risk and dependency tracking
• Meeting management and documentation

Coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups to drive project success:

• Drive alignment on deliverables and timelines
• Ensure clear ownership and accountability
• Surface and resolve bottlenecks
• Maintain momentum toward objectives

Build scalable project management capability:

• Template creation and refinement
• Best practice documentation
• Knowledge transfer mechanisms
• Process improvement recommendations

Required qualifications:

• 8+ years of project/program management experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Track record of successfully managing company-level, complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Experience coordinating across senior stakeholders, including VPs+
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellence in project infrastructure creation and maintenance
• Outstanding written and verbal communication
• Proven ability to influence without authority

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in high-growth technology companies
• PMP certification or equivalent
• Experience with transformation or change initiatives
• Master's degree in a relevant field

Compensation:
This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

• US Zone 1: $148,580 - $185,725
• US Zone 2: $142,120 - $177,650
• US Zone 3: $131,860 - $164,825
• US Zone 4: $122,740 - $153,425

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 Pay Zones:

• 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

Posting Date: 8/3/2026
Application Window: We anticipate the application window will be open until August 7, 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.
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