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Senior Product Designer

Coursera

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Posted 4 weeks ago

Join Coursera's mission to revolutionize online learning as a Product Designer for the Core Foundation Team

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Coursera, born from a mission to provide universal access to world-class education, now stands as one of the largest online learning platforms globally, with a whopping 175 million learners registered as of March 31, 2025. Partnering with over 350 leading universities and industry leaders, it offers a broad content catalog and innovative platform serving learners across the globe. Loyal to its vision of transforming lives through education access, Coursera is inviting talented individuals to join the cause as a Product Designer.

Role Summary:

  • Working with the Design, Research, and Brand Creative teams.
  • Translating learner and partner insights into user-centric experience strategies and design solutions.
  • Simplifying complex concepts and shaping interactions and product solutions.
  • Collaborating with other teams to bring products from definition to deployment.
  • Developing experiences that fuel business growth while being globally scalable, inclusive, and equitable.
  • Influencing design decisions with stakeholders from various departments and advocating for the customer.

Role Requirements:

  • 5+ years of UX/Product Designer experience.
  • Proficiency in designing responsive, accessible web-based experiences.
  • Experience in using, optimizing, and contributing to design systems and UI pattern libraries.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Proficiency in design, research, and collaboration tools (Figma, Confluence, User Testing, and Jira).
  • Experience simplifying complex technical concepts and testing design solutions.
  • Facilitation of design workshops, development of solution frameworks, creation of user flows, and building prototypes.
  • Experience building new products and leveraging user research to inform MVP definition and development.

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 175 million registered learners as of March 31, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading universities and industry leaders to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera’s platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand 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. 

Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.

Role Overview:

As a Product Designer on our Core Foundation Team, you will be an integral part of our Design, Research, and Brand Creative teams, translating learner and partner insights into user-centric experience strategies and design solutions.

Learning and transformation can be quite challenging. As a product designer, your role involves simplifying complex concepts and shaping everything from small-scale interactions to large-scale product solutions that serve thousands of learners.

Our goal is to ensure that education is within reach for everyone, and we are looking for exceptional designers to help us achieve this.

Responsibilities:

  • Navigate through the ambiguous phases of the product design process by linking business and customer needs to help define the vision and strategy.
  • Work through design problems from start to finish, turning research insights and high-level concepts into ideas that create excellent user experiences.
  • Use both qualitative and quantitative insights to guide design decisions.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and researchers to bring products from initial definition to deployment and beyond.
  • Develop experiences that fuel business growth while being globally scalable, locally relevant, inclusive, and equitable for all. 
  • Influence design decisions with stakeholders from various departments and advocate for the customer.

Basic Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience as a UX/Product Designer.
  • Experience in designing responsive, accessible web-based experiences.
  • Utilizing, optimizing, and contributing to design systems and UI pattern libraries.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
  • Expertise in design, research, and collaboration tools,  (eg: Figma, confluence, user testing, and Jira).

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Simplifying complex technical concepts and effectively testing design solutions.
  • Fluency in facilitating design workshops, developing solution frameworks, creating user flows, and building prototypes.
  • Crafting and presenting findings and proposals compellingly to stakeholders.
  • Consider and rationalize the technical difficulty of different designs and find simple ways to test concepts.
  • Experience building new products and leveraging user research to inform MVP definition and development.

Nice-To-Have:

  • Experience working across multiple platforms, including responsive web, mobile, and other digital interfaces.
  • Experience maintaining localized and right-to-left experiences.
  • Experience leading design-thinking workshops.
  • Hybrid skill set across the design capabilities from UX to interaction and visual design.

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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 [email removed - click apply for more details].
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For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.
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