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— Steve Jobs
Principal Product Designer
Coursera • United States of America 🇺🇸
As a Principal Designer, you will lead and drive strategic initiatives across the Learning Content Experience, collaborating with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact initiatives. You will also mentor and coach designers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the design team.
Responsibilities
- Set the long-term product design vision and connect that vision to the company strategy
- Lead organizational change, scaling practices across distributed teams, and navigating ambiguity at the org level
- Define and navigate highly ambiguous and complex problem spaces, leveraging insights across customer, business, and operational areas
- Lead and collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact initiatives containing numerous product offerings, from concept to launch
- Drive design excellence by optimizing and refining design standards, practices, and methodologies
- Mentor and coach designers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align technical strategy with experiential outcomes
- Engage key stakeholders to secure buy-in and support for strategies through user-centered storytelling
- Contribute to establishing business success metrics that include UX and brand quality
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a UX (User Experience) / Product Designer, with a proven track record of leading strategic org-wide design, systems, and product initiatives across multiple teams
- Expertise in design and collaboration tools (e.g., Figma, FigJam, and others)
- Mastery of UX design skills, including facilitating design workshops, applying solution frameworks, creating user flows, defining IA, and creating wireframes and prototypes
- Strong visual design and UI skills, with experience leveraging, building upon, and evolving design systems
- Experience designing with a mobile-first lens
Key Skills
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
- Experience designing for AI products and emerging technologies
- Experience as a course instructor or teaching assistant
- Experience designing for consumer SaaS products, LMS or enterprise products, or consumer mobile
Benefits
- Salary is just one component of Coursera’s total rewards package
- All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU’s
About Coursera
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 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading university and industry partners 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.
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