Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, 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 148 million registered learners as of March 31, 2024.
Coursera partners with over 325 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, Guided Projects, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.
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.
We at Coursera 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. As a remote-first company, our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates.
Job Overview:
Coursera is bootstrapping a new development center, with a focus on building a platform team in India. This is a unique opportunity to be part of the founding team that would not only own a mission-critical charter, but also play a significant role in shaping the culture of the location. We are looking for individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset who are excited by the prospect of building impactful 0 to 1 products.
The payment platform team’s mission is to build scalable, robust and flexible platforms enabling learners all across the world to pay using local payment methods. This team is responsible for the end-to-end purchase flow for our enterprise customers looking to buy Coursera services via an online payment method. The payments team manages the entire lifecycle of their payment plan on the platform including but not limited to the enterprise checkout experience, payment processing and integrations, and reporting + reconciliation. You will have the opportunity to contribute directly to Coursera’s top-line growth and help bring high-quality affordable education to millions of learners across the globe
Your responsibilities
- Owning key business objectives and leading your team to deliver the required results
- Technical leadership: balancing effective product feature delivery against managing tech debt and creating a high-leverage product platform to accelerate and improve many different initiatives.
- Hiring: Building a vision of team skill sets, identifying key growth areas, managing the hiring pipeline.
- Mentoring: Acting as a role model, aiding in career development conversations, inspiring engineers, providing feedback.
- Product enablement: Acting as a curator of a vision, discussing needs with stakeholders, prioritizing, driving forward on key initiatives, running sprint planning meetings, and standups.
- Mediating: Investigating interpersonal issues, facilitating crucial conversations.
Basic Qualifications
- Experience (3+ years in a management position & 5+ years in product development as an IC)
- Leadership (integrity, transparency, inspiration)
- Technical Excellence (technical rigor, data driven)
- Emotional intelligence (empathy, humility, patience, communication skills)
- Problem-solving (creativity, intelligence)
- Excellence in ambiguous and complex situations (clarity of vision, boldness, grit)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience balancing effective product feature delivery against managing tech debt and creating a high-leverage product platform
- Experience managing a team owning product platforms or components of a product platform, especially if you had firsthand experience creating and formulating the charter and ownership boundaries for such a team.
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