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Lead Designer job at Coursera

Coursera can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity, assuming candidates have eligible working rights and a sufficient timezone overlap with their team. Our interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a remote-first company.

Coursera was launched in 2012 by two Stanford Computer Science professors, 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 92 million registered learners as of Sept. 30, 2021. Coursera partners with over 250 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including Guided Projects, courses, Specializations, certificates, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in many high-demand fields, including data science, technology, and business. Coursera became a B Corp in February 2021.

Job Overview:

At Coursera, our Marketing team is responsible for brand development, new learner acquisition and retention, degree marketing, and enterprise marketing. We are looking for a Lead Designer who can help shape the expression of our brand through all marketing communications and act as a conduit to the product design team in order to ensure the brand comes to life through our product experience as well. We look forward to this person performing hands-on design work and developing compelling creative solutions across various marketing touch points including: digital advertising assets, email design, event experiences, social content, interactive experiences, corporate collateral, and more.

Your work will directly touch millions of learners around the globe and you will own the expression of Coursera’s brand through our marketing channels.

Responsibilities:

Create highly effective designs for digital marketing campaigns, event experiences, interactive experiences, and corporate collateral
Create and format all visual elements for campaigns across social, email, interactive, video, print, and out of home, focusing on typography, layout, imagery, iconography, and brand consistency
Evolve and refine Coursera’s visual brand identity and deliver visual systems and impactful design solutions that strengthen Coursera’s brand across Consumer, Enterprise, Corporate, Internal, and Event marketing
Help tell Coursera’s brand story internally (through environmental, conference and culture work)
Support the design development of high impact presentation materials and event experiences
Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure superior quality, cohesion, and impact of creative solutions across all marketing touch-points

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years experience as a visual designer working on various media project types and styles
Experience with Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Sketch
Demonstrated history working in advertising agencies
Portfolio featuring examples of visual interaction design work (please link a personal website or portfolio)

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong portfolio of digitally focused marketing and advertising campaigns
Comfort with managing multiple projects of varying complexities at once, meet deadlines, work independently and well under pressure
Experience shaping and developing global brands through graphic design, communication design and advertising
Graphic design expertise in typography, layout, color, and brand systems
Fluency in current graphic design practices and using web production software and motion design

If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:

Innovation Through Design
UI/UX Design
Design and Make Infographics

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 [email protected].

For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here.

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

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