COURSERA Content Strategy Researcher Salary in the United States

Coursera was founded by two computer science professors at Stanford with a vision of providing life-transforming learning experiences to anyone, anywhere. It is the world’s largest online learning platform for higher education. 190 of the world’s top universities and industry educators partner with Coursera to offer courses, Specializations, and degrees that empower over 40 million learners around the world to achieve their career goals. Over 1,800 companies use the company’s enterprise platform Coursera for Business to transform their talent. Coursera is backed by leading venture capital firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Enterprise Associates, GSV Capital, International Finance Corporation, Laureate Education Inc., and Learn Capital. The Content team is responsible for ensuring that Coursera’s university partnerships, industry partnerships, and course content strategy achieve the highest level of success.  The Content Strategy Researcher will be responsible for conducting strategic research to inform the content strategy team’s approach to identifying content to launch on Coursera. As part of this larger content strategy, this person will partner with team member leads in different areas --  technology, data science, business, health, and more -- to provide relevant landscape on job demand, market size, popular content, content gaps, thought leaders, and more. The research will likely include competitive analyses, overviews of key skills needed to succeed in a content domain, and forward-looking research to identify forthcoming trends. This person will also be responsible for identifying and reaching out to key informants in the field for background on topic areas, and recommendations about what new content Coursera should add. Check out life at Coursera on The Muse!