Tech Innovation Strategist

About Coursera

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Today, it is one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 197 million registered learners as of December 31, 2025.

Coursera partners with over 375 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 generative AI-powered features like Coach, 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.

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 and let you choose the best way you work, whether it's from home, a Coursera hub, or a co-working space near you. Our virtual hiring and onboarding make it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, scale unique products exclusive to Coursera, and expand your career horizons, apply below.

Job Overview

We’re looking for a Tech Innovation Strategist to lead the vision, strategy, and execution of AI solutions driving growth and efficiency at Coursera.

This role is housed within one of the high-performing and high-impact teams at Coursera—a cross-functional group that operates like a skunkworks unit. We move fast, tackle high-stakes problems, and build solutions that change the way the entire organization operates.

As Tech Innovation Strategist, you won’t just work on projects driving incremental efficiencies via AI in the company—you’ll be expected to:

• Conceptualize and drive transformative ideas within existing processes and whitespaces that have the potential to shape how Coursera works.
• Move with high velocity, showing strong bias for action, clarity in ambiguity, and an internal drive to make an outsized impact.

You’ll work with stakeholders across every function—from Enterprise Business, Content and Credentials, Marketing, Legal, Finance, Services, and Customer Support—to build powerful, scalable AI-led solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Define Strategy & Roadmap: Own the vision, execution strategy, and success in solving complex, ambiguous problem statements to drive efficiencies.
• Build AI-Powered Systems: Envision and integrate emerging technologies—LLMs, agents, RAG, LangChain, vector DBs—to automate and augment Coursera’s workflows.
• Transformational Thinking: Deeply understand Coursera’s business units and workflows, challenge the status quo and reinvent with transformational AI-first ideas.
• Cross-functional alignment: Work with multiple cross-functional teams in Coursera to identify efficiency and growth use-case and ensure alignment across all phases of the project.
• End-to-End Execution: Write crisp product requirements, prioritize ruthlessly, and work with engineers, designers, and cross-functional teams to deliver.
• Launch & Drive Adoption: Roll out tools, track usage and performance, and ensure solutions drive meaningful business impact.
• Continuously Innovate: Constantly identify opportunities to eliminate toil, automate repetitive tasks, and turn operational pain points into leverage.
• Collaboration with Technical Teams: Work closely with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, data analysts to conceptualise and execute deeply impactful solutions.

You’ll Be a Great Fit If You...

• Have 4-7 years of product management or technical consulting experience—ideally in cross-functional business enablement teams.
• Are excited about AI and have hands-on experience building products using AI agents, RAG, vector databases, multi-agent systems, etc.
• Thrive in high-velocity environments and know how to execute with speed and focus.
• Bring a builder’s and innovator’s mindset, can think outside the box and enjoy challenging the status quo.
• Are a strategic thinker and tactical executor—you zoom out to reshape how teams work, and zoom in to write great PRDs and track key metrics.
• Love understanding complex internal workflows and simplifying them through elegant process / automation solutions.
• Are a clear communicator who builds trust across teams and drives alignment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Have experience working across multiple functions, cross-functional teams, and building tools for a diverse set of users.
• Are deeply motivated by Coursera’s mission of transforming lives through learning—starting with transforming how we work internally.

Nice to Have

• Previous experience in coding as a software engineer or a good understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Hands-on prototyping experience with AI tools like Cursor and Claude Code.
• Experience working with low-code/no-code automation tools (e.g., Retool, Salesforce, ServiceNow).
• Technical background or familiarity with API design, data modeling, and enterprise architecture.

Key skills/competency

• AI Strategy
• Product Management
• Cross-functional Leadership
• Generative AI (LLMs, RAG, Agents)
• Workflow Automation
• Strategic Thinking
• Execution & Delivery
• Stakeholder Management
• Innovation & Transformation
• Data-driven Decision Making