About Coursera
Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
Why Join Us
At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.
We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
Location: Coursera + Udemy lets you choose the best way to work, whether it’s from home, an office, or a collaboration space. We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to come together. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
Job Overview:
We’re building the future of mobile learning at Coursera and we’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead it. You’ll shape the company wide mobile strategy for the app that millions of learners use to make progress towards their learning goals.
In this role, you'll set the multi-quarter vision for our mobile apps and lead the work that turns that vision into innovative, engaging experiences, shaping how learners discover content, build habits, and stay engaged on their journey. You'll define where mobile invests, execute the strategy, and raise the bar for product craft across the team. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact mandate for someone who wants to define what mobile means for one of the world's largest learning platforms.
If you've set the direction for a mobile product at scale and have the track record to back it, we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Define Coursera's multi-year mobile strategy, anticipating market and technology shifts and positioning mobile as a growth engine for the company, not just a delivery surface.
- Lead execution through all stages of the product lifecycle from discovery and design to delivery and optimization, partnering with engineering, design, data science, and marketing.
- Influence mobile investment and priorities across the broader product organization, aligning teams around a shared vision and measurable business outcomes.
- Champion learner needs and market opportunities, translating deep user understanding into engaging, effective, and accessible mobile experiences.
- Leverage behavioral insights, experimentation, and data-driven decision-making to prioritize initiatives, measure feature success, and iterate continuously.
- Raise the bar for product craft across the team, and setting the standard for how mobile products get built
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of product management experience with consumer or enterprise products.
- Experience shaping mobile platform or portfolio investment strategy in direct partnership with executive leadership.
- Experience establishing frameworks, planning mechanisms, or quality standards that other teams or functions adopt beyond your own.
- Experience shipping capabilities for native mobile apps (iOS/Android) at scale.
- Experience leading large, complex product initiatives across multiple teams that delivered measurable business outcomes.
- Experience using quantitative data, experimentation, and user research to prioritize and measure product decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in user-centered design and a track record of partnering with designers to create intuitive, delightful experiences.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders across an organization.
- Knowledge of mobile growth and engagement levers, retention, notifications, and onboarding,
- Experience navigating platform specific constraints, including iOS and Android release cycles and guidelines.
- Passion for lifelong learning and Coursera's mission where anyone, anywhere has the power to transform their lives through learning.
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
- AI Product Manager Professional Certificate (IBM)
- Product Strategy and Roadmapping (Microsoft)
Compensation:
This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
Zone 2: $209,000 - $262,000
Zone 3: $194,000 - $243,000
Zone 4: $180,000 - $226,000
At Coursera, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level across four U.S. pay zones. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary, with comprehensive health and wellness benefits, bonus and RSU equity programs, and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.
US Pay Zones:
- US-Z1: Bay Area
- US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro
- US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA
- US-Z4: AK, AZ, DE, FL, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NV, NH, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, UT, VT, WI
For more information about how Coursera collects and uses your personal information, please see our Global Applicant Privacy Notice.
To protect against recruitment fraud, Coursera + Udemy recruiters only communicate via official coursera.org/udemy.com email addresses and never through personal accounts. We do not accept resumes via email or social media; please submit all applications directly through our careers page.
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Coursera is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a welcoming and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request at [email protected].
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