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Coursera is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead the vision for its search experience using AI to enhance user engagement and satisfaction within their platform.

Responsibilities: The role involves defining a personalized, AI-driven search experience, driving experimentation and improvements in search relevance, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize product success.

Skills: Candidates should possess strong product management experience with consumer products, familiarity with search algorithms, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams effectively.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in E-Commerce, a focus on user-centric design, and a track record of guiding products from concept to successful launch.

Location: This position is based in the US and supports remote work options.

Compensation: $148200 - $216600 / Annually

About Coursera

Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller to make world-class learning accessible to everyone, everywhere. Today, over 190 million learners and 375+ university and industry partners use our platform to gain skills in fields like AI, data science, technology, and business. As a Delaware public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp, we’re driven by the belief that learning can transform lives through learning.

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 and let you choose the best way you work, whether it's from home, a Coursera hub, or a co-working space near you. Our virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, scale unique products exclusive to Coursera, and expand your career horizons, apply below.

Job Overview:

In this pivotal role, you will set the strategic vision for Coursera's search experience across our diverse product suite by working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to ensure a seamless, personalized, and ML/AI-driven learner experience. The best candidates are extremely hands-on, obsessed with the learner journey, and opinionated about how AI can make finding the right course, credential, or skill path effortless for a global, multilingual audience.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, research, data science, ML, and university partnership teams to contribute to the development of your product roadmap. You will work closely with marketing, partnership managers, and growth product teams to ensure the successful growth of the product.

Responsibilities:

• Set the vision for next-generation discovery and search experiences that help learners find the right content through highly relevant, personalized, and AI-driven experiences.
• Own conversational search across Coursera, partnering with cross-functional product teams to deliver a seamless, end-to-end AI experience throughout the learner journey.
• Improve search relevance and quality by leveraging advances in IR/ML, embeddings, and LLMs to enhance query understanding, semantic and multilingual search, and personalized ranking.
• Drive rapid experimentation to understand evolving learner behaviors, market trends, and growth opportunities, using data to inform strategy and product decisions.
• Leverage market insights and competitive analysis to identify opportunities for revenue growth and differentiated personalization across the platform.
• Define, track, and optimize KPIs related to discovery, conversion, and merchandising, collaborating closely with Marketing and Product partners to align with business and revenue goals.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience building consumer products at scale—ideally high-intent search, discovery, or marketplace experiences—with a strong understanding of intuitive, trustworthy UX and backend search capabilities.
• 5+ years of product management experience owning the success of consumer-facing products, including responsibility for driving engagement and revenue outcomes.
• 2+ years of hands-on PM experience with search, personalization, or recommendation systems, including platform-level capabilities that support multiple use cases.
• Proven ability to deliver complex, high-impact product initiatives from ideation through launch, using both quantitative (A/B and multivariate testing) and qualitative research to inform decisions.
• Demonstrated strength in influencing and inspiring cross-functional partners through clear communication, collaboration, and shared vision.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years in a product team at a large E-Commerce Company.
• 0-to-1. You have taken products from idea to launch, with proven results post-launch.
• An "owner" mindset. You are biased toward action, a great collaborator, a master simplifier, and someone who pushes towards clarity and delivery.
• User-first. You understand and speak in terms of user value propositions and creatively inspire users to try the product. You take on complex product channels and find elegant, simplifying solutions to avoid making them our users' and partners' problems.
• A high bar across the board -- from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on.

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

• Gen AI for Product Managers
• Data Analysis with Python

Compensation:

This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

Zone 2: $173,280 - $216,600

Zone 3: $158,840 - $198,550

Zone 4: $148,200 - $185,250

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

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