Launched in 2012 by two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Coursera is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 168 million registered learners. Our mission is to provide universal access to world-class learning. We partner with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations and Professional Certificates degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.
Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.
At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. As a remote-first company, our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates.
Job Overview:
The Design & Research teams play a vital role in Coursera’s success. These teams are responsible for gathering learner & educator insights and translating them into recommendations that help Coursera achieve a seamless experience across its platform. These teams are divided into three main areas: Product Experience, Learning Content Experience, and Core Foundations.
The experience of learning and transformation is inherently challenging. Your work as a designer will be to create simplicity from complexity and influence everything from the most micro-interaction to full-enterprise learning programs with thousands of employee learners. Our goal is to make education accessible to all and we need extraordinary designers to realize this.
Responsibilities:
- Work through design problems from beginning to end, translating qualitative and quantitative data and high-level concepts into workflows, visual designs, and detailed interactions that create delightful user experiences.
- Navigate the initial ambiguous phases of design to define product vision and strategy, aligning business and customer needs.
- Partner with cross-functional teams—including product managers, engineers, data scientists, and researchers—to deliver products from concept to launch.
- Create globally scalable, locally relevant, and inclusive experiences that drive business growth.
- Balance prioritization and delivery across multiple projects while driving strategic outcomes as a Design Lead.
- Mentor designers on best practices, raising the bar for design quality and outcomes.
Basic Qualifications:
- 5-8 years experience as a UX (User Experience) / Product Designer
Preferred Qualifications:
- Able to utilize effective communication and collaboration strategies with cross-functional partners—including product managers, engineers, data scientists, researchers, other designers, and executives—in evolving design proposals. Experience with design and collaboration tools (e.g. Figma, Figjam and others).
- Able to consider and rationalize the technical difficulty of different designs, finding ways to test concepts as simply as possible.
- Experience building new products and conducting user research to inform MVP definition and development.
- Mastery of UX design skills required to facilitate design workshops, apply solution frameworks, create user flows, define IA, create wireframes, and create prototypes.
- Strong visual design / UI skills with experience leveraging and building upon a design system.
- Demonstrated expertise designing with a mobile-first lens.
Nice-To-Have:
- Experience as a course instructor or teaching assistant.
- Experience designing with emerging technologies, e.g. GenAI.
- Depending on the topic area you are interested in: experience designing for consumer SaaS product(s), enterprise products or consumer mobile.
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
- Generative AI for Everyone
- Google UX Certification
- Design Thinking for the Greater Good
- Design Led Strategy
Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. This role's targeted hiring base salary range is between $126,500 and $168,500. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$135,000 - $160,000 USD
US Zone 3
$120,000 - $155,000 USD
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.
Current Zone Locations:
- Zone 1- San Francisco Metro, New York City Metro or Seattle Metro
- Zone 2 - CA (outside of SF Bay Area), CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, NY/NJ (other than NYC), OR, RI, TX, VA, WA (other than Seattle)
- Zone 3 - all other US locations
Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.
For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here.
For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.
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