Senior Director, Global People Business Partners

Coursera
$200,000 - 251,000 USD
United States, California, Mountain View
281 East Evelyn Avenue (Show on map)
Oct 02, 2025
Coursera was launched in 2012 by Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller with a mission to provide universal access to world-class learning. It is now one of the largest online learning platforms in the world, with183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners withover 350 leading university and industry partnersto offer a broad catalog of content and credentials, including courses, Specializations, Professional Certificates, and degrees. Coursera's platform innovations enable instructors to deliver scalable, personalized, and verified learning experiences to their learners. Institutions worldwide rely on Coursera to upskill and reskill their employees, citizens, and students in high-demand fields such as GenAI, data science, technology, and business. Coursera is a Delaware public benefit corporation and a B Corp. We're a global platform aiming to transform lives through learning by offering transformative courses, certificates, and degrees that empower learners worldwide to advance their careers through skill mastery. We're looking for inventors, innovators, and lifelong learners eager to shape the future of education. If you're ready to build the global programs and tools that fuel the power of online learning, join Team Coursera. At Coursera, we are committed to building a globally diverse team and are thrilled to extend employment opportunities to individuals in any country where we have a legal entity. We require candidates to possess eligible working rights and have a compatible timezone overlap with their team to facilitate seamless collaboration. Coursera has a commitment to enabling flexibility and workspace choices for employees. Our interviews and onboarding are entirely virtual, providing a smooth and efficient experience for our candidates. As an employee, we enable you to select your main way of working, whether it's from home, one of our offices or hubs, or a co-working space near you. Job Overview: Coursera seeks an experienced Senior Director of Global People Business Partners to help develop a high-performance global organization. In this role, you will be instrumental in forging strong relationships with executive members and leading a high-caliber team of People Partners. Your strategic insight will be crucial in evolving our people strategy, reinforcing global human resource processes, and fostering an environment of continual transformation and agility. With a focus on cultivating a performance-driven culture, your leadership will ensure Coursera's position as a competitive and sought-after employer, where business-aligned HR initiatives empower employee engagement and drive impactful business outcomes. Responsibilities: Lead and develop the HR Business Partner team focused on innovation, collaboration, and strategic alignment, enabling them to proactively support and drive the company's objectives. Cultivate a high-performance culture that embraces agility and resilience to navigate and thrive in a changing environment. Build and nurture a company culture where employees are deeply invested in Coursera's mission, demonstrating strong engagement and alignment with organizational values. Empower and coach leadership to effectively manage change, and foster team growth, performance, and engagement. Develop engagement strategies targeting various employee demographics to enhance workplace satisfaction, drive innovation, and reduce turnover. Drive the adoption and implementation of HR initiatives at every organizational layer, ensuring these programs resonate with employees and align with their professional growth, values, and high-performance culture Directly support executive business leaders with people strategy and key programs. Build and manage strong cross-functional partnerships within HR (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Talent Management) and across the business (functional leaders, Finance, Legal). Effectively balance tactical execution work and process improvements with strategic transformational initiatives. Lead organizational and talent transformations, including annual planning cycles, ensuring alignment across functions and long-term business priorities. Travel will be required (10%) Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, or a related field 15+ years of progressive HR experience 8+ years of direct management experience overseeing HR functions or business partner teams Proven tech industry experience, in Product and Engineering or GTM Demonstrates a hands-on approach, with experience in developing and scaling total rewards, talent management and manager/leadership programs in a high-growth environment Self-starter with the ability to thrive as a player-coach, balancing near-term execution with long-term transformational strategy. Excellent communicator, ability to simplify complex concepts and influence at all levels Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in HR, Business Administration, or a related field Experience managing people programs in Asia Pacific and especially India Strong advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion, integrating these principles into effective people programs Proven track record of success in project management and operational execution, with a strong focus on data-driven HR solutions Demonstrated skill and commitment to both leading the BP team and acting as a key people strategist and trusted business advisor to senior executives, as well as a builder of processes and structure [FOR US ROLES ONLY] Compensation US Zone 1 $200,000 - 251,000 USD US Zone 2 $170,000 - 213,500 USD US Zone 3 $160,000 - 201,000 USD The range(s) listed above is the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change. Salary is just one component of Coursera's total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for a bonus program and equity in the form of RSU's. A number of factors are taken into account when determining pay, which includes: job level, location, training/education, business need, skill set and internal equity. Current Zone Locations: Zone 1- San Francisco Metro, New York City Metro or Seattle Metro Zone 2 - CA (outside of SF Bay Area), CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, NY/NJ (other than NYC), OR, RI, TX, VA, WA (other than Seattle) Zone 3 - all other US locations #LI-KW1 Coursera is anEqual Employment Opportunity Employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected class. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process, please contact us at accommodations@coursera.org. For California Candidates, please review our CCPA Applicant Notice here. For our Global Candidates, please review our GDPR Recruitment Notice here.