Senior Product Designer New

Coursera Inc.; Canada; On-site; CAD 124,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Coursera Inc. is hiring a Senior Product Designer to own the design of established features within a product area, working independently and with cross-functional partners.

You will translate research insights and business needs into elegant solutions, making education accessible to all while shaping Coursera’s AI-powered approach. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to bring products from definition through shipping, with a focus on usability,

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of experience as a UX or Product Designer with ownership of design across the full product lifecycle.
• Experience with core UX methods including user research, synthesizing insights, creating user flows, defining information architecture, and producing wireframes and prototypes.
• Experience with interaction and visual design, contributing to design systems and working within them.
• Ability to design responsive, mobile-first experiences informed by research and data insights; proficient with Figma and collaboration tools.
• Ability to communicate design rationale and influence cross-functional stakeholders including PMs, engineers, and researchers.
• Advantage: experience designing AI-driven products and using AI tools to speed up prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clarity on direction, scope, and impact for projects, translating research into workflows, visuals, and interactions.
• Provide strategic perspective informed by business and market insights and own parts of larger initiatives.
• Break down work into executable deliverables and plan for iterative improvement in an agile fashion.
• Create innovative design solutions that enable reuse and scale across the product.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to ship and iterate.
• Use insights and data to frame hypotheses, metrics, and guardrails for design decisions.

Skills

User research

Wireframes

Prototypes

Information architecture

User flows

Figma

FigJam

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

FigJam

Claude Code

Job description

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 worldclass 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.

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 worldclass 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.

Overview of the Role:

Job Overview:

The Design & Research teams play a vital role in Coursera's success by gathering learner and educator insights and translating them into recommendations that help Coursera achieve a seamless experience across its platform. As a Senior Product Designer, you will own the design of established features within a product area, working independently while collaborating closely with cross-functional partners. The experience of learning and transformation is inherently challenging — your work will be to create simplicity from complexity, translating research insights and business needs into elegant, well-crafted design solutions. Our goal is to make education accessible to all, and we need talented designers like you to help realize this vision.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver clarity on direction, scope, and impact for individual projects, translating research insights and high-level concepts into workflows, visual design, and detailed interactions.
• Convey a strategic perspective with conviction, informed by business and market insights, and take ownership of parts of a larger strategic initiative.
• Break down and sequence work into executable deliverables, planning for iteration and continuous improvement in an agile fashion.
• Create innovative, systematic design solutions that meet high standards of usability and aesthetics, enabling efficiency, reuse, and scale across the product.
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and data scientists to bring products from initial definition through shipping and beyond.
• Combine insights from multiple sources into cohesive design recommendations, and use data to frame hypotheses, success metrics, and guardrails that inform design decisions.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of experience as a UX or Product Designer, with a portfolio demonstrating ownership of design work across the full product lifecycle.
• Experience with core UX methods — including user research, synthesizing insights, creating user flows, defining information architecture, and producing wireframes and prototypes.
• Experience with interaction and visual design, including working within and contributing to existing design systems.
• Demonstrated ability to design responsive, mobile-first experiences informed by user research and data insights. Proficiency in design and collaboration tools such as Figma and FigJam.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate design rationale and influence cross-functional stakeholders, including PMs, engineers, and researchers.
• Incorporates AI into the design process, using tools like Claude Code alongside Figma to speed up prototyping, explore more concepts faster, and iterate on ideas in new ways.
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing AI-driven products, including prompt-based interactions and best practices for human-AI collaboration.
• Experience coaching or mentoring less-experienced designers on design thinking and craft best practices.
• Passion for education, learning transformation, and Coursera's mission to make world-class learning accessible to everyone.

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At Coursera, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level. 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.

This role is only available for hire in Canada.

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 $124,000 - $155,000. 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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