Staff Product Manager, Search

Coursera•Mountain View, CA

5d•$156,000 - $235,500

About The Position

The Staff Product Manager will set the strategic vision for Coursera’s search experience across its product suite, working with cross-functional teams to create a seamless, personalized, AI- and machine-learning-driven learner experience for a global, multilingual audience. The role focuses on making it effortless for learners to find relevant courses, credentials, and skill paths. The position collaborates with engineering, design, research, data science, machine learning, and university partnership teams to shape the product roadmap. It also works closely with marketing, partnership managers, and growth product teams to support product growth. The successful candidate brings experience building consumer products at scale, ideally high-intent search or marketplace experiences, and a strong focus on learner needs, product quality, collaboration, and delivery.

Requirements

At least 5 years of product management experience with direct responsibility for the success of a consumer-facing product and revenue generation.
At least 2 years of product management experience working on search, personalization, or recommendation features.
A track record of delivering complex, impactful product initiatives from ideation through launch.
Experience using quantitative methods, including A/B testing and multivariate experimentation, as well as qualitative research to prioritize and validate ideas.
Ability to influence and inspire cross-functional teams through communication and collaboration.
Direct experience scaling platform-level capabilities that serve multiple use cases.

Nice To Haves

At least 4 years in a product team at a large ecommerce company.
Experience taking products from idea to launch and demonstrating results after launch.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical or relevant field.

Responsibilities

Set the vision for next-generation capabilities that help users discover learning content through compelling, highly relevant, personalized search.
Own conversational search across Coursera and collaborate with other product teams to deliver an integrated AI experience throughout the learner journey.
Improve search-result accuracy using advances in information retrieval, machine learning, embeddings, and large language models, including improvements to query understanding, semantic and multilingual search, and personalized ranking.
Use rapid experimentation to understand market trends, user behavior, and potential opportunities.
Use market trends and competitor analysis to identify revenue-growth opportunities and ways to personalize the learner experience.
Define and track key performance indicators for conversion and merchandising, and make data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement.
Work with Marketing and other Product teams to align conversion strategies with business objectives and revenue targets.
Collaborate with engineering, design, research, data science, machine learning, university partnership, marketing, partnership management, and growth product teams on the roadmap and product growth.