VP, Consumer Category Management

VP, Consumer Category Management

Coursera was launched in 2012 by 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 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 leading university and industry partners to offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera's platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp.

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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.

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Job Overview

Coursera is seeking an experienced Vice President of Consumer Category Management to establish and lead our global consumer category strategy. The VP will be accountable for building the category management function from the ground up, with full P&L ownership for top categories in the Consumer segment, including owning key partner relationships. This leader will drive revenue growth and profitability by pulling the right levers across content, product, and marketing. This executive will balance strategic vision and operational excellence, setting the framework for how categories are managed at Coursera while delivering measurable results. By creating and executing a strategy that draws on Coursera's unique strengths, an innovative learning experience, a powerful brand, and a deep partner ecosystem, this executive will build a small but critical team, deliver significant incremental revenue impact, and establish category management as a durable organizational capability.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute Coursera's category management strategy :

• Establish the vision, structure, and operating model for the category management function.
• Define and implement category-level strategies that maximize revenue, contribution margin, content breadth, and long-term growth potential.
• Identify high-value opportunities within domains (e.g., Data Science, Health) and prioritize levers across product, content, and marketing.

Own and optimize category revenue performance :

Create and scale the category management team :

Drive cross-functional collaboration :

Champion insights and innovation :

Basic Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Compensation

Mid-range Salary : $320K

The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

Salary is just one component of Coursera's total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU's.

A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes : job level, location, training / education, business need, skill set and internal equity.