Staff Product Manager, Partnerships

Coursera • Mountain View, CA

22h • $212,000 - $265,000 • Remote

About The Position

Coursera and Udemy have merged, creating a leading skills development platform for the AI era. This union enhances our capacity for AI-driven innovation and skill development. Coursera, founded in 2012, aims to provide universal access to world-class education through partnerships with universities and industry leaders. We offer a wide array of learning content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Our platform features AI-powered personalization, Role Play, Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks, facilitating scalable and verified learning. Institutions globally utilize Coursera for upskilling in high-demand fields like GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Learners worldwide use Coursera to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. The recent combination with Udemy creates a comprehensive skills development platform.

At Coursera, we seek inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners to shape the future of education. You will contribute to global programs and tools that support online learning for millions, transforming ideas into impact. Our team values customer focus, speed, simplification, and data-driven iteration. We are a globally distributed team that collaborates intentionally for problem-solving and key milestones, enabling teams to perform at their best. Our virtual hiring and onboarding process allows for seamless integration from anywhere. If you are ready to make a global impact, scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and advance your career, we encourage you to apply.

The Product Management team at Coursera is dedicated to our mission of providing universal access to world-class learning and skills development. Senior and Staff PMs spearhead high-impact product initiatives, blending strategic foresight with practical problem-solving to craft integrated experiences for learners, partners, and enterprises. They collaborate closely with Engineering, Design, Data, and Business stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions in the dynamic, AI-driven education sector.

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. You had to define the problem, make the bet, build the team's confidence, and ship it. You can point to what worked, what didn't, and what you'd do differently.
• 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: You think in experiences, not just features. You have a strong point of view on what good authoring and creation tools feel like — and the patience to pressure-test that instinct with real creators until the product earns trust. You can speak fluently with design partners and push back when something that works technically doesn't work humanly.
• Revenue Awareness: You understand how the products you build connect to the business. Whether it's creator retention, content quality driving learner outcomes, or new monetization surfaces — you can draw a line from product decisions to commercial impact, and you use that line to prioritize.
• Customer-Centric Curiosity: Exhibit deep curiosity to understand customers and all elements influencing their experience, offering comprehensive, integrated solutions that address real needs.
• Thriving in Ambiguity: Operate effectively in uncertain, fast-changing environments, as often found in startup-like situations.
• Balanced Skills vs. Domain Experience: While domain expertise is beneficial, strong intellectual capacity, curiosity, proactiveness, and solid foundational product skills enable quick adaptation even without prior domain exposure.
• Strategic & Tactical Agility: Seamlessly switch between defining long-term vision and deep-diving into execution details when required.
• IC Excellence: As an individual contributor, comfortably navigate between strategy and execution to deliver impact.
• Integrated Experience Design: A track record of designing end-to-end integrated experiences is a strong plus.
• Tool Familiarity: Familiarity with tools in the PM space, such as Jira, Figma or generative AI tools, though tool-specific experience is less crucial. A capable PM with strong core skills will learn quickly.
• Speed of Innovation: Demonstrates the ability to rapidly prototype, test, and iterate solutions to keep pace with evolving customer needs and emerging technologies. Balances speed with rigor to deliver impactful outcomes quickly.
• You are the product leader who inspires colleagues to think bigger, look beyond safe bets and tackle challenges with conviction. You are a builder, not an optimizer.
• You have a strong aesthetic sensibility and deep respect for craft in UX. You've worked closely with designers — not just as a stakeholder, but as a genuine creative partner — and your products show it.
• You understand creator psychology. Whether it's course authors, instructional designers, or subject-matter experts, you know what makes creation tools feel enabling rather than obstructive, and you've shipped products that creators actually want to use.
• You are commercially literate. You can connect product choices to revenue outcomes without reducing every decision to a business case. You know when to push for a quality call that doesn't have an immediate ROI, and when that's actually the wrong call.
• You are energized about solving hard problems and navigating ambiguity and rapid technology change.
• You are deeply curious about customers and the positive impact your product could have on their lives. You dive deep into data and feedback to ground your understanding of their needs and experience using your products.
• You feel a sense of responsibility and urgency to invent the future of AI as a force for unlocking human potential and expanding opportunity.

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.

Benefits

• bonus program
• equity in the form of RSU’s
• flexibility and workspace choices
• virtual interviews and onboarding
• select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed