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Coursera, now merged with Udemy to form one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms, is seeking a Principal Product Manager, AI to define and drive the future of AI-powered learning. This is a highly strategic individual contributor role operating within a small, high-impact team responsible for shaping Coursera's AI strategy and accelerating the company's most important AI initiatives.
You will identify opportunities where advances in AI can create meaningful value for learners, educators, institutions, and enterprise customers. Your responsibilities include defining and driving the strategy, roadmap, and investment priorities for AI-powered products and platform capabilities that improve learner outcomes and create long-term business value. You'll lead Coursera's highest-priority AI initiatives from concept through launch and scale, driving alignment across teams and making strategic tradeoff decisions in rapidly evolving areas.
Key responsibilities include identifying opportunities to apply AI advances to improve how learners discover content, build skills, engage with learning experiences, and achieve educational and career goals. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Legal, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver innovative AI-powered solutions responsibly and effectively. You'll define success metrics, experimentation frameworks, and evaluation methodologies to measure AI quality, learner outcomes, customer value, and business impact. Additionally, you'll serve as a thought partner to product and executive leadership on emerging AI technologies, industry trends, and future opportunities.
Required qualifications include 10+ years of product management experience leading technology product development and launch, with specific experience building and launching AI-powered products where large language models, generative AI systems, AI agents, or intelligent automation were central to the customer experience. You should have experience leading 0-to-1 product initiatives from concept validation through commercial launch, owning product strategy and execution in highly ambiguous or rapidly evolving technology areas, and developing experimentation frameworks and quality metrics for AI-powered products. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent practical experience) is required.
