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Principal Product Designer
Coursera • United States of America 🇺🇸
Coursera is looking for a Principal Designer to lead and drive strategic initiatives across the Learning Content Experience. The goal is to make education accessible to all by creating simplicity from complexity and influencing everything from micro-interactions to programs.
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 to frame initiatives and advocate for a strategic perspective and vision at all levels of the organization
- Lead and collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact initiatives containing numerous product offerings, from concept to launch, ensuring alignment with business objectives and user needs
- Drive design excellence by optimizing and refining design standards, practices, and methodologies, connecting brand and product design thinking to create novel and compelling solutions
- Mentor and coach designers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the design team and across the organization
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align technical strategy with experiential outcomes, proposing novel technical and experiential opportunities to elevate the quality, speed, and scale of products and services
- Engage key stakeholders to secure buy-in and support for strategies through user-centered storytelling, building cross-functional alliances to expand the design function's reach and influence
- Contribute to establishing business success metrics that include UX and brand quality, ensuring that design initiatives align with and drive the organization's market position and business goals
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as a UX (User Experience) / Product Designer
- 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
Key Skills
- UX design skills
- Facilitating design workshops
- Applying solution frameworks
- Creating user flows
- Defining IA
- Creating wireframes and prototypes
Benefits
- Competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level across four U.S. pay zones
- Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
- Bonus and RSU equity programs
- Global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are
About Coursera
Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller to make world-class learning accessible to everyone, everywhere. Today, over 190 million learners and 375+ university and industry partners use our platform to gain skills in fields like AI, data science, technology, and business.
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