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Senior Tech Innovation Strategist

Senior Tech Innovation Strategist to lead AI solutions at Coursera.
Coursera
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India
Undisclosed salary
Job Description
Coursera is seeking a Senior Tech Innovation Strategist to spearhead the vision, strategy, and execution of AI-driven solutions aimed at fostering growth and efficiency. This role is situated within a high-impact team, functioning akin to a skunkworks unit, focused on swiftly addressing critical challenges and developing solutions that transform organizational operations.

The Senior Tech Innovation Strategist will not only contribute to projects that incrementally improve efficiency through AI but will also be expected to:
  • Identify, conceptualize, and drive transformative ideas within existing processes and whitespaces to reshape Coursera's operational methods.
  • Operate with high velocity, demonstrating a strong bias for action, clarity amidst ambiguity, and an intrinsic motivation to create a substantial impact.

Responsibilities:
  • Define Strategy & Roadmap: Own the vision, execution strategy and success  for complex ambiguous problem statements driving efficiencies across different workstreams in Coursera
  • Build AI-Powered Systems: Envision and integrate emerging technologies—LLMs, agents, RAG, LangChain, vector DBs—to automate and augment Coursera’s workflows.
  • Transformational Thinking: Deeply understand Coursera’s business units and workflows, challenge the status quo and reinvent with transformational AI-first ideas
  • Cross-functional alignment: Work with multiple cross functional teams in Coursera to identify efficiency and growth use-case and ensure alignment across all phases of the project.
  • End-to-End Execution: Write crisp product requirements, prioritize ruthlessly, and work with engineers, designers, and cross-functional teams to deliver.
  • Launch & Drive Adoption: Roll out tools, track usage and performance, and ensure solutions drive meaningful business impact.
  • Continuously Innovate: Constantly identify opportunities to eliminate toil, automate repetitive tasks, and turn operational pain points into leverage.
  • Collaboration with Technical Teams: Work closely with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, data analysts to conceptualize and execute deeply impactful solutions

Requirements:
  • 7+ years of product management or technical consulting experience—ideally in cross-functional business enablement teams
  • Excitement about AI and experience or strong interest in building products using AI agents, RAG, vector databases, multi-agent systems, etc.
  • Ability to thrive in high-velocity environments and execute with speed and focus.
  • A builder’s and innovator’s mindset, with the ability to think out-of-the-box and challenge the status quo.
  • Strategic thinking and tactical execution skills, capable of reshaping team workflows and writing effective PRDs while tracking key metrics.
  • Love for understanding complex internal workflows and simplifying them through elegant process/automation solutions.
  • Clear communication skills to build trust across teams and drive alignment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Experience working across multiple functions, cross-functional teams, and building tools for a diverse set of users.
  • Deep motivation by Coursera’s mission of transforming lives through learning—starting with transforming how we work internally.

Coursera offers:
  • Flexibility and workspace choices for employees.
  • Interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual.
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