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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:
The Design & Research teams play a vital role in Coursera’s success. These teams are responsible for gathering learner & partner insights and translating them into recommendations that help Coursera achieve a seamless experience across its platform. These teams are divided down into three main areas: Growth & Discovery, Learner & Educator Experience, & Enterprise.
The experience of learning and transformation is inherently challenging. Your work as a designer will be to create simplicity from complexity and influence everything from the most micro-interaction to full-enterprise learning programs with thousands of employee learners. Our goal is to make education accessible to all and we need extraordinary designers to realize this.
Responsibilities:
- Leverage your product, interaction, and visual design skills to create delightful experiences that empower our users
- Partner with product managers, engineers, data science, product research and content design to create a product from the initial definition to shipping and beyond
- Iterate on designs to arrive at an optimal solution considering timelines, feasibility, technical and business constraints
- Design for multiple projects at a time, managing time, goals, and cross-functional collaboration
- Work with substantial autonomy across multiple teams and business lines
- Detect opportunities to collaborate with designers across teams and help evolve the culture of knowledge sharing within the team
Basic Qualifications:
- 2-3 years web-based Component Design experience OR 5+ years of web-based Product Design
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a test-driven environment (A/B testing) to help inform design direction.
- Communication and collaboration strategies with cross-functional partners PMs, engineering, other designers, and execs in evolving design proposals.
- Experience building new product offerings, and conducting user research to inform MVP definition and development.
- Comfort using Figma and for remote work / Miro
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
Questions & answers for this position
- What is the type of contract for this position?The contract for this position is a Full-time contract
- Is telecommuting possible for this position?No, telecommuting is not possible for this position
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