About the position
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.
Requirements
- 5-8 years experience as a UX (User Experience) / Product Designer
Nice-to-haves
- 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.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and equitable compensation practices.
- Variable pay, equity, and benefits.
