Managing Director, APAC - Enterprise

2 Weeks ago • 15-8 Years • Business Development

Job Summary

Job Description

The Managing Director, APAC, will be a senior executive leading Coursera's Enterprise team in the Asia-Pacific region. This role is responsible for driving rapid growth by securing and expanding enterprise clients across various sectors and geographies. Key responsibilities include developing a deep understanding of the market, devising a growth strategy, managing sales, hiring top talent, and providing leadership. The MD will oversee customer-facing functions, contribute to Coursera's Enterprise leadership team, and drive revenue growth across Coursera for Campus, Government, and Business. They will also foster cross-functional collaboration, build a scalable sales infrastructure, and cultivate a high-performance culture. The ideal candidate will have 15+ years of experience in sales, business development, and leadership in enterprise sales, preferably in software, HR/LMS/Talent, or education sectors.
Must have:
  • 15+ years of enterprise sales success
  • Proven revenue generation in enterprise software
  • Leadership experience in customer functions (sales, marketing, customer success)
  • Strategic business leadership and growth strategy execution
  • Experience selling HR/LMS/Talent or Education solutions

Job Details

Launched in 2012 by two Stanford professors, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, Coursera is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with 168 million registered learners. Our mission is to provide universal access to world-class learning. We partner with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations and Professional Certificates degrees. Institutions around the world use Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

Join us in our mission to create a world where anyone, anywhere can transform their life through access to education. We're seeking talented individuals who share our passion and drive to revolutionize the way the world learns.

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:

The Coursera Enterprise team serves global institutions around the world, allowing businesses, academic institutions, and governments to enable their employees, students, and citizens to gain critical skills aligned to the job market of today and tomorrow. Institutions play a major role in tackling the global reskilling challenge by providing awareness, incentives, and financial support for lifelong learning. The Enterprise team is made up of several functional roles including Global Sales, Customer Success, Channel, Implementation Management, Skills Transformation, and Revenue Strategy & Operations. 

The Managing Director, APAC  will be one of Coursera’s senior executives in the region and will act as a sales lead for the Enterprise team in APAC. They will be responsible for delivering rapid growth from a relatively early stage with enterprise clients across a range of sectors and geographies.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze the current business, developing a deep understanding of Coursera’s enterprise products, its global customers, their use of those technologies, and the manner in which they are currently sold and supported. 
  • Develop a clear analysis of the local competitive landscape and work in conjunction with the VP, Enterprise to develop a plan for rapid growth in APAC leveraging any existing relationships and aggressively taking market share.
  • Set clear priorities, communicate them transparently, and translate them into actionable, pragmatic deliverables.
  • Take hands-on responsibility for driving sales growth in the APAC region and ensuring renewals and expansion of existing clients
  • Provide clear visibility over pipeline, coverage, and forecast. 
  • Hire and retain top talent in the region. 
  • Provide clear and inspirational leadership and lead through example by building passion, energy, and shared excitement for the business. 
  • Take accountability for all customer-facing functions (direct and dotted line reporting), with a ‘hands-on’ approach.  
  • Participate and contribute as a key team member in Coursera’s Enterprise business leadership team.
  • Drive sustainable revenue growth in India and Asia across Coursera for Campus (C4C), Coursera for Government (C4G), and Coursera for Business (C4B) by deploying a robust regional go-to-market strategy that aligns with distinct market opportunities and customer value propositions, with an aim to scale the enterprise segments
  • Demonstrate visionary leadership, both within Coursera and in the broader industry, on strategizing how Coursera’s partnerships can transform and future-proof global workforces through advanced learning, upskilling, and reskilling initiatives powered by GenAI, ultimately driving impactful educational transformation at scale.
  • Orchestrate cross-functional collaboration in the region that cultivates robust feedback loops between product, customer success, degrees, and marketing teams, ensuring continuous alignment with market demands and refinement of product-market fit.
  • Design and implement a scalable sales infrastructure that leverages data analytics to inform strategies, optimize the sales cycle, and is grounded in a comprehensive framework of sales performance metrics for consistent evaluation and enhancement of sales team productivity.
  • Develop and enhance the 'land-and-expand' playbook with a focus on strategic customer engagement processes designed to strengthen relationships and drive growth by delivering tailored, value-driven solutions that encourage broader adoption and deeper integration of Coursera’s offerings.
  • Foster a high-performance culture with strong alignment across global revenue functions, leveraging credibility and influence within a matrixed organization to unite stakeholders around shared regional growth initiatives. 
  • Attract and nurture exceptional sales talent, applying a keen ability to identify and develop high-potential individuals into a world-class sales force primed to meet Coursera's growth potential. 

Basic Qualifications:

  • 15+ years of demonstrated success across sales, business development, and business leadership roles where enterprise selling is the core of revenue generation.
  • Demonstrated history of driving revenue in an enterprise software environment, with ideally a strong understanding of HR/ LMS/ Talent or Education-based solutions.
  • Experience as a leader of customer functions, with a bias to sales, but a strong understanding of and ability to influence/ lead marketing and customer success/ implementation.
  • Demonstrated history as a strategic business leader capable of evaluating, building, and executing on a strategy to drive accelerated growth in the region & engage as a spokesperson as well as with top C-level customers on their strategic talent transformation initiatives

 

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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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