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. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 205 million registered learners as of March 31, 2026. Coursera partners with over 375 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 generative AI-powered features like Coach, 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.
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 and let you choose the best way you work, whether it's from home, a Coursera hub, or a co-working space near you. Our virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, scale unique products exclusive to Coursera, and expand your career horizons, 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 1-2 concurrent strategic transformation initiatives, each lasting 1-2 quarters
- 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
US Zone 2: $149,340 - $186,675
US Zone 3: $138,320 - $172,900
US Zone 4: $128,820 - $161,025
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.
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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
- 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
- Experience in high-growth technology companies
- PMP certification or equivalent
- Experience with transformation or change initiatives
- Master's degree in a relevant field
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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