SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Coursera, now merged with Udemy to form one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms, is seeking a Staff Product Designer to lead design strategy and execution for a major product area. In this role, you will partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science teams to shape scalable experiences that drive meaningful outcomes for millions of learners and customers globally.
You will lead the design vision, strategy, and execution for a major product area, shaping its strategic direction while ensuring design quality and craft excellence across every stage of the product lifecycle. This requires creating clarity from ambiguity, influencing product direction, and transforming complex challenges into simple, elegant, and inclusive solutions. You'll define and navigate ambiguous, complex problem spaces while leveraging insights across customer, business, and operational areas to frame initiatives and drive a strategic point of view.
Key responsibilities include partnering closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to design and ship experiences that scale across the catalog. You'll design new functionality within existing systems and drive the definition of new patterns and formats as the space evolves. You'll partner with research and data leads to synthesize quantitative and qualitative insights into cohesive, actionable design recommendations that shape product direction.
The role emphasizes fluent application of AI as part of the design craft itself—using AI tools to accelerate discovery, ideation, prototyping, and iteration while exercising sound judgment about where AI assistance helps versus where it shortcuts thinking that shouldn't be shortcut. You'll communicate design rationale effectively to influence cross-functional and senior stakeholders, and mentor designers across pods to raise the bar for craft and storytelling.
Coursera is a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones. The company values customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on metrics that matter.
