Chief of Staff, Enterprise
Coursera · United States
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- United States
About the role
About Coursera
Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with 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 — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.
Why Join Us
At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.
We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
Job Overview:
We are looking for a Chief of Staff to join our team as the Enterprise GM's Chief of Staff, operating across functional teams to drive company-wide strategic alignment and transformation. This role acts as a company-level thought partner, leading cross-functional initiatives, synthesizing insights across functions, and ensuring that Coursera’s long-term priorities are executed cohesively across the organization.
At Coursera, we are entering a new phase of scale, one that demands tighter strategic integration and stronger connective systems across the company. The Chief of Staff plays a critical role in shaping those systems, enabling the company to operate with clarity, consistency, and foresight. Working across multiple executives and orgs, this role strengthens Coursera’s leadership alignment and execution muscle, driving transformation through thoughtful design and company-level coherence. The Chief of Staff operates with broad executive trust and crucially balances strategic foresight with the operational clarity needed to execute at scale.
Objectives of this role:
- Support Enterprise GM multi-year strategies that drive financial performance
- Drive integration across multiple functions to ensure alignment of strategy, priorities, and resource allocation
- Enable sustainable operational excellence, including organizational cadence and governance
- Drive strategic decision-making at the executive level
- Shape and steer multi-function initiatives that advance Coursera’s strategy and operating model
- Create and improve cross-functional collaboration that supports delivery of company- and org-level priorities
- Identify and proactively address systemic organizational challenges that impact multiple functions
Responsibilities:
- Partner with principal plus executive enabling functions - Finance, HR, EA - to develop and execute 2-3 year strategic plans that drive measurable business impact across org functions in alignment with company objectives
- Design and implement sophisticated operating models that enable scale while maintaining agility
- Provide strategic counsel to principal on critical business decisions, leveraging deep understanding of market dynamics, company-level goals, and internal capabilities; Provide sophisticated analysis and recommendations that include the inputs of appropriate stakeholders, including executives
- Support multi-exec alignment on strategic priorities and resource allocation across multiple functions
- Architect and execute complex organizational change, from concept to landing, including structural changes, process improvements, and cultural shifts
- Synthesize insights and recommendations across multiple business areas to inform company-level tradeoffs and sequencing
- Build and maintain influential relationships at the senior management level (e.g. VP+) across the organization to enable rapid mobilization for strategic initiatives
Required qualifications:
- 15+ years in business management, strategy, or executive advisory roles
- In-depth experience driving results in a B2B, preferably SaaS, revenue organization, e.g. Revenue Operations, Sales, GTM
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-year transformational initiatives
- Track record of influencing executive-level decisions and driving organizational change
- Deep expertise in organizational design and operational excellence
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and drive results in rapidly evolving environments
- Superior strategic thinking and analytical capabilities
- Outstanding executive presence and communication skills
- Experience managing high-stakes stakeholder relationships, including at the senior management level (i.e. VP+)
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or advanced degree
- Experience managing a large, global organization (30+ FTE)
- Track record of successful P&L management
- Experience serving as interim executive leader
- Experience delivering company-level transformation as a cross-functional leader
US Zone 1: $218,500 - $273,125
US Zone 2: $209,000 - $261,250
US Zone 3: $193,800 - $242,250
US Zone 4: $180,500 - $225,625
At Coursera, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level across four U.S. pay zones. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary, with comprehensive health and wellness benefits, bonus and RSU equity programs, and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.
- US-Z1: Bay Area
- US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro
- US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA
- US-Z4: AK, AZ, DE, FL, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NV, NH, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, UT, VT, WI
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