Key skills
AIGenAIAnalyticsLeadershipStakeholder ManagementChange ManagementCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
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 is seeking a strategic Senior Human Resources Business Partner to support the successful execution of key business priorities during a critical period of organizational integration and transformation.
In this role, you will partner closely with business leaders to drive organizational effectiveness, operating model implementation, and cross-functional alignment across the organization. You will serve as a trusted advisor to leadership, ensuring people, processes, and organizational structures are aligned to support growth, efficiency, and realization of strategic objectives.
The ideal candidate brings strong business acumen, change management expertise, and experience leading organizations through periods of transformation, integration, and organizational change.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with senior leaders to drive organizational integration, transformation initiatives, and operating model implementation.
- Lead people-related aspects of organizational change, including organizational design, workforce planning, change management, and team effectiveness.
- Identify organizational risks, execution gaps, and capability needs, and develop solutions that improve business performance and scalability.
- Drive cross-functional alignment and collaboration to ensure successful execution of strategic priorities and organizational initiatives.
- Coach leaders through periods of change, helping them effectively manage communication, employee engagement, performance, and organizational effectiveness.
- Partner with People Team Centers of Excellence to support talent planning, succession planning, compensation, employee engagement, and leadership development initiatives.
- Use people analytics and organizational insights to inform decision-making, measure progress, and drive continuous improvement.
- Champion Coursera's culture and values while helping leaders navigate ambiguity and organizational complexity.
Basic Qualifications:
- 10+ years of Human Resources experience, including experience as an HR Business Partner supporting senior leaders.
- Experience supporting large-scale organizational transformation, integration, restructuring, or operating model changes.
- Strong change management, organizational design, and workforce planning capabilities.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across complex organizations.
- Experience using data and insights to drive business and people decisions.
- Excellent communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting post-merger integration or organizational consolidation efforts.
- Experience working in high-growth, fast-paced, or rapidly evolving environments.
- Strong organizational development and executive coaching expertise.
- Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and delivery.
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