Product Designer II

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.

Role Overview:

The Design & Research teams play a vital role in Coursera’s success. These teams are responsible for gathering learner & educator insights and translating them into recommendations that help Coursera achieve a seamless experience across its platform. These teams are divided into three main areas: Product Experience, Learning Content Experience, and Core Foundations.

As a Product Designer on our Core Foundation Team, your role involves simplifying complex concepts and shaping everything from small-scale interactions to large-scale product solutions that serve thousands of learners.

Our goal is to make education accessible to everyone, and we’re looking for exceptional designers to help us achieve this.

Responsibilities:

• Navigate through the ambiguous phases of the product design process by linking business and customer needs to help define the design solutions.
• Work through design problems from start to finish, turning research insights and high-level concepts into ideas that create excellent user experiences.
• Use both qualitative and quantitative insights to guide design decisions.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, data scientists, and researchers to bring products from initial definition to deployment and beyond.
• Develop experiences that fuel business growth while being globally scalable, locally relevant, inclusive, and equitable for all. 

Basic Qualifications:

• 3–5 years years of experience as a UX/Product Designer.
• Experience in designing responsive, accessible web-based experiences.
• Utilizing, optimizing, and contributing to design systems and UI pattern libraries.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
• Expertise in design, research, and collaboration tools,  (eg: Figma, confluence, user testing, and Jira).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Simplifying complex technical concepts and effectively testing design solutions.
• Fluency in developing solution frameworks, creating user flows, and building prototypes.
• Crafting and presenting findings and proposals to cross-functional partners.
• Experience balancing technical feasibility and design quality.
• Experience in leveraging user research and insights to inform design decisions.

Nice-To-Have:

• Experience working across multiple platforms, including responsive web, mobile, and other digital interfaces.
• Experience maintaining localized and right-to-left experiences.
• Hybrid skill set across the design capabilities from UX to interaction and visual design.

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