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Coursera is hiring a Strategic Transformation Manager to lead the execution of critical company-wide strategic initiatives that span multiple quarters and functions. This role requires driving project management excellence, facilitating stakeholder coordination, and building scalable tools to enhance organizational execution capability.

Highlights

Lead execution of multi-quarter, cross-functional strategic initiatives affecting company metrics and business models.
Develop and maintain detailed project management infrastructure including plans, timelines, status reporting, and risk management.
Coordinate alignment, ownership, and accountability among diverse stakeholder groups, including executive leadership.
Create scalable templates, best practice documentation, and knowledge transfer mechanisms to strengthen project management capabilities.
Require 8+ years of project/program management experience and proven success managing complex, company-level initiatives.
Must demonstrate strong analytical, communication, and influence skills with senior stakeholders including VPs and above.
Preferred qualifications include experience in high-growth tech companies, PMP certification, and a relevant master’s degree.
Compensation ranges from $146,000 to $194,000 USD annually across US pay zones, with eligibility for bonuses and equity awards.
Reporting structure: This role reports to the VP, Chief of Staff within the Chief of Staff department.
Clients and users include internal executive teams and multiple cross-functional departments driving large-scale transformation.

Strategic Transformation Manager Full Description

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 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 enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

We’re a global platform aiming to transform lives through learning by offering transformative courses, certificates, and degrees that empower learners worldwide to advance their careers through skill mastery. We’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners eager to shape the future of education. If you’re ready to build the global programs and tools that fuel the power of online learning, join Team Coursera.

At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration.

Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you.

Job Overview:

We are looking for a Strategic Transformation Manager to join our team. This role will drive the execution of Coursera's most critical, company-level strategic initiatives that span multiple quarters and functions. From day one, the Strategic Transformation Manager will have an immediate impact on our ability to execute these strategic priorities effectively and efficiently.

This role reports to the VP, Chief of Staff. Success will be measured through the following:

Strategic initiative completion (on time, high quality)
Template/tool adoption and scaling
Stakeholder satisfaction (especially the Executive Team)

Objectives:

Drive execution excellence for 1-2 concurrent strategic transformation initiatives
Create and manage sophisticated project infrastructure for complex, cross-functional work
Enable effective stakeholder coordination and communication across all levels
Ensure systematic tracking, reporting, and risk management
Build scalable templates and tools that enable organizational execution capability

Responsibilities:

Execute strategic initiatives that meet specific selection criteria:
- Multi-quarter transformations spanning 3+ functions
- Material to company metrics or business model
Design and maintain project management infrastructure:
- Detailed project plans and timelines
- Status reporting and dashboards
- Risk and dependency tracking
- Meeting management and documentation
Coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups to drive project success:
- Drive alignment on deliverables and timelines
- Ensure clear ownership and accountability
- Surface and resolve bottlenecks
- Maintain momentum toward objectives
Build scalable project management capability:
- Template creation and refinement
- Best practice documentation
- Knowledge transfer mechanisms
- Process improvement recommendations

Basic Qualifications:

8+ years of project/program management experience
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
Track record of successfully managing company-level, complex, cross-functional initiatives
Experience coordinating across senior stakeholders, including VPs+
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellence in project infrastructure creation and maintenance
Outstanding written and verbal communication
Proven ability to influence without authority

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in high-growth technology companies
PMP certification or equivalent
Experience with transformation or change initiatives
Master's degree in a relevant field

Compensation:

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$155,200 - $194,000 USD

US Zone 3

$146,000 - $182,500 USD

The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

Salary is just one component of Coursera’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU’s.

A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes: job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set and internal equity.

Current Zone Locations:

Zone 1- San Francisco Metro, New York City Metro or Seattle Metro
Zone 2 - CA (outside of SF Bay Area), CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, NY/NJ (other than NYC), OR, RI, TX, VA, WA (other than Seattle)
Zone 3 - all other US locations

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Coursera is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org.

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For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.

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