Coursera + Udemy

HQ
San Francisco
Total Offices: 3
1,500 Total Employees
Year Founded: 2010

Coursera + Udemy Leadership & Management

Coursera + Udemy Employee Perspectives

I try to create an environment where people can bring their true selves to work every day, where they can grow and develop and really make an impact for our customers.

Gordon Egan
Gordon Egan, Senior Director of Enterprise Sales

Coursera + Udemy Employee Reviews

Our leaders play a key role in transforming to a skills-based organization. We want to ensure they know how to identify, assess and develop their teams’ skills.
 

Karen Fascenda
Karen Fascenda, Chief People Officer
Karen Fascenda, Chief People Officer

What People Are Saying About Coursera + Udemy

  • Strategic Vision & Planning: Leadership consistently articulates an AI-enabled, enterprise-first north star for the combined Coursera–Udemy platform. Clear milestones and modeling updates around the April 9, 2026 approvals and May 11, 2026 close reinforce this direction.
  • Adaptability & Agility: The company shifted toward subscription-based, recurring revenue prior to the merger and continues to prioritize AI-assisted product and content rollouts through 2026. This demonstrates responsiveness to evolving market dynamics in workforce upskilling.
  • Collaborative & Aligned Leadership: The merger thesis aligns with Udemy’s pre-existing pivot toward enterprise and subscriptions, creating coherence across 2025–2026 communications. Consistent messaging from completion announcements and investor materials underscores coordinated leadership intent.

Coursera + Udemy 's Benefits

Engineering team utilizes pair programming

Hosts in-person all-hands meetings

We hold quarterly all-hands meetings, accessible to both on-site and remote participants.

Hosts in-person revenue kickoff meetings

Implements team-based strategic planning

Open office floor plan to encourage communication and collaboration

Uses an OKR operational model to clearly define goals and priorities

Utilizes an open door policy that encourages accessibility