Senior Merchandising Manager

Udemy•Denver, CO

14h•$130,000 - $162,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Coursera and Udemy have merged, creating a leading global platform for skills development in the AI era. This combined entity aims to accelerate AI-powered innovation and transform how individuals and companies acquire necessary skills. Udemy, as an AI-powered skills acceleration platform, focuses on delivering personalized learning experiences to help organizations scale workforce development and individuals advance their careers. The company operates globally with hubs in various countries and has recently combined with Coursera to enhance its offerings. The combined entity, Coursera + Udemy, offers flexible work arrangements, encouraging collaboration and problem-solving for its globally distributed team. This role presents an opportunity to make a global impact, scale unique products, and advance one's career within this dynamic environment.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Analytics, or a related field, with 7+ years of experience in digital merchandising, e-commerce, category management, growth, marketplace strategy, or a related discipline.
Demonstrated success developing merchandising strategies that drive measurable improvements in learner engagement, conversion, retention, and revenue.
Strong experimentation mindset with experience designing A/B tests, interpreting results, and translating insights into scalable merchandising improvements.
Exceptional analytical skills with experience using customer insights and performance data to prioritize opportunities and inform strategic decisions.
Experience partnering cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, Analytics, and Data Science to deliver customer-centric solutions.
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance learner experience, marketplace dynamics, and business objectives.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence across functions and levels of the organization.
Experience with digital analytics, experimentation, and merchandising platforms such as Amplitude, Tableau, Optimizely, Adobe Analytics, Contentful, or similar technologies.

Responsibilities

Lead merchandising initiatives across key consumer surfaces, including homepage, navigation, browse, search, course pages (XDP), hubs, recommendation modules, and promotional placements.
Partner with Category Managers to amplify strategic content launches, priority categories, seasonal campaigns, and business initiatives through thoughtful merchandising and content placement.
Collaborate with Product and Engineering to define and enhance merchandising capabilities, including curated collections, candidate pools, business rules, personalization, and scalable merchandising tools.
Design, execute, and analyze merchandising experiments to validate hypotheses, improve customer experiences, and optimize business outcomes.
Analyze learner behavior, customer journeys, merchandising performance, and marketplace trends to identify opportunities for improved discovery, conversion, and expansion.
Develop merchandising frameworks that balance learner needs, commercial priorities, editorial curation, and algorithmic recommendations to deliver the best customer experience.
Partner across Udemy and Coursera teams to identify strategic cross-sell and upsell opportunities that introduce learners to complementary products, subscriptions, certificates, degrees, and learning experiences across the combined ecosystem.
Help establish merchandising best practices, operating models, and measurement frameworks that enable the Category Management organization to scale merchandising capabilities over time.