Senior Product Marketing Manager, Coursera for Government

About Coursera

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.

Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. Coursera partners with 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 — including AI-powered personalized guide and features, like Role Play and Course Builder, and role-based solutions like Skills Tracks — enable instructors, partners, and companies to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, students, and citizens in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business, while learners globally turn to Coursera to master the skills they need to advance their careers. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. Coursera recently combined with Udemy to create one of the world’s most comprehensive skills development platforms.

Why Join Us

At Coursera, we’re looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners ready to shape the future of education. You’ll help build global programs and tools that power online learning for millions turning bold ideas into real impact. People who thrive here are customer-first builders who move fast, simplify ruthlessly, and iterate relentlessly on the metrics that matter.

We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to do their best work together. Our virtual hiring and onboarding experience makes it easy to join us and start making an impact from anywhere. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.

Job Overview:

Coursera’s Product Marketing team connects learners, educators, institutions, and government organizations with our world-class learning products, content, and solutions. Product Marketers play a key role in shaping product-market fit, bringing solutions to market, and driving adoption. In this role, you’ll lead Product Marketing for Coursera for Government (C4G), and also support Coursera for Business (C4B) as needed, based on business priorities. You’ll partner closely with product management, content strategy, marketing, partnerships, and customer success teams to build solutions that help government agencies and workforce development programs accelerate economic mobility and close skills gaps. You’ll play a critical role in positioning Coursera as the premier skills development platform for federal, state, and local government agencies—enabling job seekers, civil servants, and workforce boards to upskill and reskill at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Develop deep expertise in government, workforce development, and public-sector audiences (agency leaders, program administrators, workforce boards, job seekers, and civil servants) to influence product and GTM strategy.
• Create and own product messaging, positioning, pricing, and GTM assets tailored to government buyers, ensuring alignment with procurement processes and program outcomes.
• Serve as a competitive expert on skills-training solutions in the public sector, identifying priority regions, agency types, and workforce initiatives.
• Drive go-to-market strategy and execution for new features and solutions designed for government and workforce development programs.
• Develop sales and marketing materials—including pitch decks, program one-pagers, procurement-ready documentation, and messaging guides—serving as a subject matter expert.
• Partner cross-functionally across marketing, PR, partnerships, and customer success to craft compelling narratives highlighting economic mobility, job placement, and workforce impact.Develop public sector, buyer, admin and learner audience expertise and insights to influence the product and marketing roadmap

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years in B2B product marketing (or related marketing roles), 10+ years professional experience
• Experience implementing sales enablement strategies for field teams selling into government, enterprise, or other highly regulated industries
• Experience developing go-to-market plans, messaging, positioning, pricing/packaging, and tracking GTM initiatives across cross-functional teams
• Experience creating messaging documents and positioning plans for complex, multi-stakeholder audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working within global, highly regulated public-sector or government-focused organizations
• Experience selling or marketing to government buyers, workforce development agencies, labor departments, or public-sector executives
• Experience enabling sales and CS teams that support state, federal, or nonprofit workforce programs
• Comfort operating in fast-paced environments with complex compliance, procurement, and stakeholder needs
• Demonstrated storytelling skills highlighting workforce outcomes, public impact, or mobility programs

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

• Customer Insights: New Product Development Orientation
• Positioning: What You Need for a Successful Marketing Strategy
• Public Sector Efficiency: Optimizing Business Processes

Compensation

This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:

At Coursera, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level across four U.S. pay zones. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary, with comprehensive health and wellness benefits, bonus and RSU equity programs, and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.

US Pay Zones:

• US-Z1: Bay Area
• US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro
• US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA
• US-Z4: AK, AZ, DE, FL, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NV, NH, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, UT, VT, WI

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