Principal Product Manager

Role Description

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.
• Help expand the breadth, freshness, and relevance of our catalog.
• Lead initiatives that empower educators, subject matter experts, and enterprise customers to create engaging content.
• Advance 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.

• 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.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• Salary range: US Zone1: $218,800 - 273,500.
• All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSUs.
• 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.