Job Overview

The Teaching and Learning (T&L) team at Coursera is a group of learning designers and pedagogy experts. Our team works closely with instructors and learning design teams from top universities and industry partners around the globe, providing best practices, training, consulting, and support in content development to help our partners create transformational learning experiences. We aim to understand the factors that make online courses successful for learners and optimize for a range of metrics -- including learner satisfaction, progression, retention, completion, and learning outcomes -- and ultimately distill these into actionable insights to guide partners in their course design and production. We continuously drive and improve online pedagogy through research, feedback, and on-platform experimentation.

The Principal Learning Design Consultantis a full-time, US-based remote position responsible for designing pedagogical frameworks for Coursera's Short-Form Content (learning experiences ranging from 30 minutes to 3 hours) and Long-Form Content (learning experiences ranging from 3 hours to 150 hours). You will work closely with Coursera's Industry Partner subject matter experts, content production design teams, and internal stakeholders who inform Coursera's catalog of content. You will enable Coursera's content engine by creating learning architecture and curriculum design frameworks that stack Short-Form Content into Long-Form Content (and vice versa), drive continuous improvement in content creation, develop maintenance and content refresh strategies for evergreen products, incorporate Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into design and production strategies, and evangelize best practices. You will also need to rapidly learn about new technologies and job roles within GenAI and Large Language Model-adjacent fields in order to meet the growing needs of our partners, learners, and product requirements. You will advocate for our learners and instructional quality while balancing production time, budget, and scalability in course design.

Responsibilities

• Create learning architectural frameworks and pedagogical best practices for Short-Form Content and Professional Certificates that drive high-impact content design, production, and maintenance systems at scale;
• Consult Coursera's content strategists, production leads and subject matter experts to design production systems that evangelize quality and learner success while driving business results;
• Identify scope of sequence, prerequisite and requisite skills, and technical requirements for multiple short-form and long-form content experiences by incorporating Bloom's taxonomy, Backward Design, Mastery Learning, and other competency-based models and pedagogical best practices;
• Establish learning design guidelines, documentation and training, and feedback systems to ensure iterative, high-quality iterative systems that inform pedagogical and production processes of short-form and long-form content;
• Leverage GenAI tools and resources in content design and project execution to drive efficiencies in content production and inform Coursera's GenAI content initiatives.

Basic Qualifications

• 7 years professional experience in teaching online and/or creating online learning experiences with partners, clients, and/or subject matter experts
• Experience creating and implementing design frameworks that inform business objectives and learning outcomes for diverse stakeholders
• Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills to effectively share feedback to internal and externals stakeholders, influence effectively, and cooperative alignment with a diverse group of peers, experts, and content partners to achieve business objectives and learner outcomes
• Strong project management skills, capable of initiating, coordinating, and managing numerous projects simultaneously, independently and as a member of larger teams, within a fast-paced, dynamic, and cross-functional environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a leadership role, either mentoring or directing teams within instructional design, online education, or a similar field
• Proven experience in designing and developing online educational content for industry education/workforce skills development
• Demonstrated ability to use GenAI to drive content production goals and data-driven insights that improve learning outcomes
• Innovative mindset, open to trying new methodologies and technologies in an ever-evolving field of online learning

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Compensation

Coursera offers competitive pay and equitable compensation practices. Our job titles may span more than one career level. The targeted hiring base salary range for this role is between $140,000 and $170,000. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to: prior work experiences, training/education, transferable skills, business needs, and geographical location. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for variable pay, equity, and benefits.