Principal Product Manager
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 worldclass 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.
As a mission-driven company, we’re passionate about making a positive impact in learners’ lives by unlocking opportunity through learning. We’re looking for self-motivated, curious, and bold problem solvers — people who are driven by purpose, energized by complex challenges, and deeply committed to putting learners at the center of everything they do. If you’re excited to reimagine how education can better serve everyone, everywhere and want to build products that drive real-world impact, you’ll thrive here.
As a Principal Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Coursera’s content ecosystem, with a focus on the authoring and content production tools that power the creation of learning experiences. Your work will enable Coursera and our partners to bring high-quality, career-aligned content to market faster, scale interactive and adaptive formats, and unlock new possibilities for developing learning at scale.
Your mission? Build the future of how content is authored, optimized, and ingested onto Coursera. You’ll help expand the breadth, freshness, and relevance of our catalog. You’ll lead initiatives that empower educators, subject matter experts, and enterprise customers to create engaging content, while also advancing how Coursera harnesses AI to deliver high-quality, trusted content for learners worldwide.
Your north star? Empowering authors to deliver high-quality, career-aligned content at scale.
If you thrive on solving complex problems, navigating uncertainty, collaborating in a tight-knit team, and are excited to shape Coursera’s next wave of product offerings, we’d love to meet you.
Responsibilities:
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for Coursera's Authoring team.
- Develop and deliver comprehensive product requirements to improve and/or innovate on the user experience based on a deep understanding of the customer.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Research, Content, Product Marketing and Support & Services teams to deliver performant and high-quality content production and ingestion experiences.
- Monitor and improve content production and ingestion metrics. Effectively communicate progress, learnings, and tradeoffs cross-functionally and to senior leaders to foster alignment.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience working in product management of tech products, including developing and prioritizing product roadmaps.
- Proficient in customer discovery, data analytics, and hypothesis testing.
- Customer-centric. Develops a deep understanding of the needs of internal and external customers including partners and enterprise users and uses this to identify opportunities and deliver impact.
- Strong problem-solving skills, using sound judgment to navigate complex challenges, assess risks, and present clear, data-driven solutions in a fast-paced environment.
- An “owner” mindset. You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master simplifier, and someone who pushes towards clarity and delivery.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building products in EdTech, learning technologies or content authoring tools
- Experience with B2B2C business model
- Experience building, using, or experimenting with AI-driven products, particularly in the areas of content generation and editing, adaptive learning and personalization, automated quality assurance, and multimodal authoring support such as AI for video, audio, and translation.
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US Zone1: $218,800 - 273,500
The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Salary is just one component of Coursera’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU’s.
A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes: job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set and internal equity.
US Pay Zones:
- US-Z1: Bay Area (within 75 miles)
- US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro (within 75 miles)
- 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
Posting Date: 8/14/26
Application Window: We anticipate the application window will be open until 9/10/26. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.
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