Staff Product Designer

About Coursera + Udemy

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.

Why join us now?

AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them.

Shape what comes next

By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale.

The Design & Research teams play a crucial role in Coursera's success by gathering learner and educator insights and translating them into recommendations that help Coursera achieve a seamless experience across its platform. As a Staff Product Designer, you will lead the design strategy and execution for a major product area. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, and Data Science across multiple teams to shape scalable experiences that drive meaningful outcomes for millions of learners and customers.

This role requires creating clarity from ambiguity, influencing product direction, and transforming complex challenges into simple, elegant, and inclusive solutions. As Coursera and Udemy come together to redefine how the world learns, this work sits at the center of our platform strategy. We're also looking for designers who embrace AI as part of their design practice—using it to accelerate exploration, synthesize insights, prototype ideas, and improve the quality and speed of design decisions.

• 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.

• Define and navigate ambiguous, complex problem spaces while leveraging insight across customer, business, and operational areas to frame initiatives and drive a strategic point of view.

• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to design and ship experiences that scale across the catalog.

• Design new functionality within existing systems, and drive the definition of new patterns and formats as the space evolves.

• Partner with research and data leads to synthesize quantitative and qualitative insights into cohesive, actionable design recommendations that shape product direction.

• Apply AI fluently as part of the 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 a shortcut.

• Communicate design rationale effectively to influence cross-functional and senior stakeholders, and mentor designers across pods to raise the bar for craft and storytelling.

• 10+ years of experience as a UX or Product Designer, with a portfolio