Staff Product Manager, Partnerships
HybridMountain View Santa Clara County, California, United States
Job Summary
Define and drive product strategy for a high-priority area of the Coursera platform, such as mobile, AI-powered assessment, or agentic enterprise integration. Own the end-to-end content creation experience for Udemy & Coursera, from instructor authoring to AI adaptation for learners. Make independent product calls in a fast-moving environment by translating customer insights and market trends into integrated solutions that scale globally. Lead execution from ideation through launch while partnering with Engineering, Design, and Data teams to deliver AI-powered features. Mentor peers and contribute to building a high-performing product organization within a globally distributed, virtual-first team.
Required Qualifications
- You have experience building, using, or experimenting with AI-driven products, particularly in the areas of workflow automation, conversational AI, decision support, or agentic AI, and transitioning from traditional UI to AI-driven or AI-first product.
- You have taken a product from zero to launch in an environment where the path wasn't clear. You had to define the problem, make the bet, build the team's confidence, and ship it. You can point to what worked, what didn't, and what you'd do differently.
- You have a high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with, to the products you work on.
- You are the product leader who inspires colleagues to think bigger, look beyond safe bets and tackle challenges with conviction.
- You are a builder, not an optimizer.
- You have a strong aesthetic sensibility and deep respect for craft in UX.
- You've worked closely with designers — not just as a stakeholder, but as a genuine creative partner — and your products show it.
- You understand creator psychology.
- Whether it's course authors, instructional designers, or subject-matter experts, you know what makes creation tools feel enabling rather than obstructive, and you've shipped products that creators actually want to use.
- You are commercially literate.
- You can connect product choices to revenue outcomes without reducing every decision to a business case.
- You know when to push for a quality call that doesn't have an immediate ROI, and when that's actually the wrong call.
- You are energized about solving hard problems and navigating ambiguity and rapid technology change.
- You are deeply curious about customers and the positive impact your product could have on their lives.
- You dive deep into data and feedback to ground your understanding of their needs and experience using your products.
- You feel a sense of responsibility and urgency to invent the future of AI as a force for unlocking human potential and expanding opportunity.
- You have eligible working rights.
- You have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration.
Desired Qualifications
- Integrated Experience Design: A track record of designing end-to-end integrated experiences is a strong plus.
- Tool Familiarity: Familiarity with tools in the PM space, such as Jira, Figma or generative AI tools, though tool-specific experience is less crucial.
- You have a strong point of view on what good authoring and creation tools feel like — and the patience to pressure-test that instinct with real creators until the product earns trust.
- You can speak fluently with design partners and push back when something that works technically doesn't work humanly.
- You understand how the products you build connect to the business. Whether it's creator retention, content quality driving learner outcomes, or new monetization surfaces — you can draw a line from product decisions to commercial impact, and you use that line to prioritize.
- Exhibit deep curiosity to understand customers and all elements influencing their experience, offering comprehensive, integrated solutions that address real needs.
- Operate effectively in uncertain, fast-changing environments, as often found in startup-like situations.
- While domain expertise is beneficial, strong intellectual capacity, curiosity, proactiveness, and solid foundational product skills enable quick adaptation even without prior domain exposure.
- Seamlessly switch between defining long-term vision and deep-diving into execution details when required.
- As an individual contributor, comfortably navigate between strategy and execution to deliver impact.
- You are a builder, not an optimizer.
- You have a strong aesthetic sensibility and deep respect for craft in UX.
- You've worked closely with designers — not just as a stakeholder, but as a genuine creative partner — and your products show it.
- You understand creator psychology.
- Whether it's course authors, instructional designers, or subject-matter experts, you know what makes creation tools feel enabling rather than obstructive, and you've shipped products that creators actually want to use.
- You are commercially literate.
- You can connect product choices to revenue outcomes without reducing every decision to a business case.
- You know when to push for a quality call that doesn't have an immediate ROI, and when that's actually the wrong call.
- You are energized about solving hard problems and navigating ambiguity and rapid technology change.
- You are deeply curious about customers and the positive impact your product could have on their lives.
- You dive deep into data and feedback to ground your understanding of their needs and experience using your products.
- You feel a sense of responsibility and urgency to invent the future of AI as a force for unlocking human potential and expanding opportunity.
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