Staff Product Manager, Partnerships

Coursera•Mountain View, CA

17h•$212,000 - $265,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Coursera and Udemy have merged, creating a powerful platform for learning and skill development. This combined entity aims to empower over 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers by providing the skills needed in an AI-driven world. The integration of Coursera's trusted content and credentials with Udemy's dynamic skills marketplace and expert network creates a unique opportunity to connect individuals and organizations with essential skills. Joining this team offers the chance to influence how the world learns and applies skills, enabling millions to participate in the new economy. The Product Management team at Coursera is dedicated to universal access to world-class learning. Senior and Staff PMs are instrumental in leading significant product initiatives, blending strategic foresight with practical problem-solving to enhance experiences for learners, partners, and enterprises. They collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Data, and Business teams to innovate within the evolving educational landscape, particularly in response to AI advancements.

Requirements

Experience building, using, or experimenting with AI-driven products, particularly in the areas of workflow automation, conversational AI, decision support, or agentic AI, and transitioning from traditional UI to AI-driven or AI-first product.
Experience taking a product from zero to launch in an environment where the path wasn't clear, defining the problem, making the bet, building the team's confidence, and shipping it.
A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on.

Nice To Haves

Creator-Centric UX Thinking: Strong point of view on authoring and creation tools, with the ability to test instincts with creators and collaborate effectively with design partners.
Revenue Awareness: Understanding of how products connect to business impact, including creator retention, content quality, and monetization.
Customer-Centric Curiosity: Deep curiosity to understand customers and their experiences, offering comprehensive solutions.
Thriving in Ambiguity: Ability to operate effectively in uncertain, fast-changing environments.
Balanced Skills vs. Domain Experience: Strong intellectual capacity, curiosity, proactiveness, and foundational product skills for quick adaptation.
Strategic & Tactical Agility: Seamlessly switching between defining long-term vision and deep-diving into execution details.
IC Excellence: Comfortably navigating between strategy and execution as an individual contributor.
Integrated Experience Design: Track record of designing end-to-end integrated experiences.
Tool Familiarity: Familiarity with PM tools like Jira, Figma, or generative AI tools.
Speed of Innovation: Ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate solutions, balancing speed with rigor.
Inspiring colleagues to think bigger and tackle challenges with conviction.
Strong aesthetic sensibility and deep respect for craft in UX, with experience as a genuine creative partner to designers.
Understanding of creator psychology and experience shipping products creators want to use.
Commercial literacy: Ability to connect product choices to revenue outcomes and know when to push for quality calls.
Energized about solving hard problems and navigating ambiguity and rapid technology change.
Deep curiosity about customers and the positive impact of products.
Sense of responsibility and urgency to invent the future of AI as a force for unlocking human potential.

Responsibilities

Define and drive product strategy and own the roadmap for a high priority area of the Coursera platform, such as mobile, AI-powered assessment or agentic enterprise integration.
Own the end-to-end content creation experience for Udemy & Coursera from how instructors and creators author content, to how AI assists and adapts that content for learners — defining what "great" looks like at every step of that journey.
Make independent product calls in a fast-moving environment, bringing cross-functional partners along through clear reasoning and well-structured communication rather than consensus-by-committee.
Translate customer insights and market trends into integrated solutions that can scale to serve millions of learners and customers around the world.
Lead execution from ideation and analysis through development and launch, delivering measurable outcomes.
Partner with Engineering, Design, and Data teams to deliver AI-powered product features and experiences.
Leverage data and customer feedback to inform decisions and continuously improve.
Mentor peers and contribute to building a high-performing product organisation.