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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