Coursera - Senior Category Manager

• AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them. • Shape what comes next • By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale. • The Category Management team drives commercial performance across Coursera's Consumer portfolio, identifying and capturing the highest-impact opportunities to grow revenue, conversion, retention, and lifetime value. We combine deep business analysis, learner and market insights, and cross-functional execution to accelerate category growth. • As a Senior Category Manager, you will take end-to-end ownership of high-priority commercial growth opportunities, from diagnosing business challenges and identifying opportunities to setting strategy, prioritizing investments, and driving execution through measurable results. You’ll operate as a business owner, independently determining where to focus and mobilizing teams across Product, Marketing, Content, and other functions, as well as our university and industry partners, to deliver outcomes. • This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, combines analytical rigor with strong commercial and strategic judgment, and takes accountability for results. You'll navigate complex business challenges, build alignment across stakeholders, and turn strategic priorities into measurable business impact. • Commercial ownership: You own the commercial outcome, not just the plan. You know your revenue, conversion, and margin numbers, understand what’s driving them, and hold yourself accountable for moving them, even when you don’t directly control the product surfaces or content. You turn plans into results through tight prioritization and consistent follow-through. • Commercial ownership: • Learner-centered strategy: You start from a deep understanding of what learners need and turn it into a clear point of view on where a category should win, what to offer, and what to prioritize. • Learner-centered strategy: • Data analysis: You turn messy data into clear insight, and use it to find and size opportunities, diagnose performance, and make the case for decisions. • Data analysis: • This role is available in the following US Pay Zones: • US Zone 3: $147,475 - $173,500 • US Zone 4: $137,275 - $161,500 • 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 Pay Zones • Zone 1 – San Francisco Bay Area only • Zone 2 – New York City Metro and Seattle Metro • Zone 3 – CA (outside of SF Bay Area), CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, NY/NJ (outside of NYC Metro), OR, RI, TX, VA, WA (outside of Seattle Metro) • Zone 4 – All other US locations not listed in Zones 1–3 • Application Window: October 19 - October 30, 2026 • Application Window • We anticipate the application window will be open until October 30, 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window. • #LI-JC2 • For more information about how Coursera collects and uses your personal information, please see our Coursera + Udemy Global Applicant Privacy Notice. • To protect against recruitment fraud, Coursera + Udemy recruiters only communicate via official coursera.org/udemy.com email addresses and never through personal accounts. We do not accept resumes via email or social media; please submit all applications directly through our careers page.