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Type
FULL TIME
Work Style
On-site
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. As a Delaware public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp, we’re driven by the belief that learning can transform lives through learning.
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.
Skills and Credentials Team Overview:
The Skills and Credentials team builds the foundational engine that connects Coursera's content to real-world career outcomes. Our mission is to create the scalable systems that define, map, and track skills across the entire learning journey. We are the architects of the data and infrastructure that enable skill-based learning, credentialing, and career pathways for millions of learners and thousands of enterprise partners.
The team focuses on several key areas:
Core Skills Taxonomy & Mapping: Building the foundational services that generate and map skills across our content library. This involves creating a structured ontology of skills, occupations, and career levels to make our content discoverable, relevant, and aligned with real-world job requirements.
Skill Progression & Signaling Infrastructure: Capture and process "skill signals" from across the learning experience to provide learners with clear, actionable insights into their skill development and readiness for assessment.
Scalable and Future-Proof Architecture: Ensuring the long-term scalability, reliability, and evolution of the skills platform. This includes collaborating with product and data teams to define the technical roadmap and making critical architectural decisions that will support Coursera's future ambitions in credentialing and personalized learning.
As the Engineering Manager for the Skills and Credentials team, you will lead a full-stack engineering team responsible for creating these critical capabilities. Your role involves technical leadership, architectural guidance, close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders, and driving strategic initiatives to deliver scalable, innovative solutions aligned with Coursera’s broader strategic goals. You will foster a high-performance team culture, encourage innovation, and ensure operational excellence, directly contributing to Coursera's mission of delivering impactful, high-quality learning experiences worldwide.
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Preferred Qualifications:
If you are excited about enabling educators to create content that reaches hundreds of millions of learners around the globe, and you have the technical and leadership skills to drive a high-impact engineering team, we’d love to hear from you!
Compensation:
Coursera offers competitive pay and fair compensation practices across all regions. Job titles may span multiple career levels, and the targeted hiring base salary range for this role in Canada is CAD $158,400- $198,000. Actual compensation will depend on factors such as experience, education, transferable skills, business needs, and location. This range may be adjusted over time and may include eligibility for variable pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
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