Senior People Analytics Lead, AI-Powered Workforce Insights

Coursera; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Coursera, a unified platform with Udemy, is hiring a senior People Analytics leader to own the analytics roadmap, build trusted data, and turn insights into practical workforce improvements. You’ll partner with HR, Finance, and IT to connect data and govern processes across the employee lifecycle.

This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role with broad influence on the People team. You’ll apply advanced analytics, forecasting, and dashboards to drive decisions, improve efficiency, and

Qualifications

• 8+ years in people analytics applying analytics to People data and processes.
• Strong understanding of HR operations, lifecycle processes, and workforce metrics.
• Experience with Workday or similar HRIS and how configuration affects data quality.
• Experience integrating complex HR datasets with HRIS/IT/data engineering teams.
• Advanced SQL and Python or R.
• Advanced proficiency in Databricks, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Strong grounding in statistical methods with judgement on method choice.
• Demonstrated success translating analysis into measurable improvements in efficiency or employee experience.
• Ability to scope ambiguous requests, prioritize, and deliver independently.

Responsibilities

• Own the analytics roadmap and prioritize workforce and operational questions.
• Build trusted people data with reliable datasets and pipelines.
• Improve People processes by analyzing onboarding, changes, case management and offboarding.
• Measure operational performance with metrics for service demand and cycle times.
• Deliver workforce insights with cross-functional collaboration on headcount and costs.
• Apply advanced methods like forecasting and predictive techniques.
• Tell the story with dashboards used by leaders and quarterly reviews.
• Advance AI and automation responsibly with privacy controls.

Skills

8+ years experience

SQL

Python or R

Databricks/Tableau

statistical methods

communication with senior leaders

privacy and responsible AI

Tools

Workday

HRIS

Job description

Coursera, a unified platform with Udemy, is hiring a senior People Analytics leader to own the analytics roadmap, build trusted data, and turn insights into practical workforce improvements. You’ll partner with HR, Finance, and IT to connect data and govern processes across the employee lifecycle.

This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role with broad influence on the People team. You’ll apply advanced analytics, forecasting, and dashboards to drive decisions, improve efficiency, and