Brand Strategy Manager
Coursera · United States · $121,550–$143,000 (stated in the posting)
About Coursera + Udemy
Coursera and Udemy are now one company, bringing together two mission-driven brands to create the world’s most powerful platform for turning learning into progress. Together, we help more than 300 million learners and 12,000+ enterprise customers build the skills they need for a world being reshaped by AI. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog.
Why join us now?
AI is transforming how people learn, work, and grow, and the need for new skills has never been greater. Coursera brings trusted content and credentials from leading university and industry partners, while Udemy brings a dynamic skills marketplace and global network of real-world experts. By combining these strengths, we can connect more people and organizations to the skills they need, when they need them.
Shape what comes next
By joining our team, you’ll have the opportunity to reshape how the world learns and applies skills—and help millions of people participate in the new economy. Bring your ideas, expertise, and perspective to meaningful work that can make a difference at global scale.
How we work
Coursera + Udemy lets you choose the best way to work, whether it’s from home, an office, or a collaboration space. We’re a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones — creating opportunities for teams to come together. If you’re ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below.
About this role:
Coursera and Udemy are becoming one company — and we need you to help define our next chapter. This is a rare chance to shape a brand from the ground up at real scale: millions of learners, thousands of enterprise customers, and two respected names coming together into something new.
As a Brand Strategy Manager, you'll take ownership of core workstreams in the evolution of our brands from day one — not supporting someone else's thinking, but building your own points of view, frameworks, and recommendations from research and cross-functional input, and defending them in the room. You'll report to our Senior Brand Strategy Lead and work at the center of a small, fast-moving team where your fingerprints will be on the final result. As our unified brand strategy locks, your role evolves — you'll take what we've built and bring it to life for a key business segment, turning strategy into how the brand actually shows up in the world.
This is a role for someone who wants real ownership, thrives in an environment that demands speed and rigor, and wants to build something rather than maintain it.
About your skills:
Brand Strategy
Core discipline for leading strategic workstreams and developing clear positioning, architecture, and recommendation frameworks for the rebrand.
Strategic Thinking
Essential for generating unique insights and competitive advantages from ambiguous research and cross-functional input under tight timelines.
Brand Management
Necessary to translate finalized strategy into consistent brand activation and perception management across assigned business segment.
What you'll be doing:
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Lead assigned strategic workstreams for the rebrand (e.g., competitive/category analysis, brand architecture scenarios, positioning territories, proof points), defining the analysis needed and bringing forward a recommendation rather than just a summary.
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Synthesize research and business input from the research lead, cross-functional partners, and market data into clear strategic implications, distinguishing findings from interpretation and recommendation, and flagging where evidence is insufficient.
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Draft strategic deliverables including sections of the brand strategy house, creative brief inputs, decision frameworks, and executive-facing materials, turning complex input into decision-ready language.
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Support and help facilitate workshops and decision sessions by developing exercises and prompts and synthesizing output into usable recommendations.
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Support agency development by prepping strategic inputs, evaluating agency work against approved strategy, drafting feedback, and leading delegated agency discussions.
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Own brand activation for an assigned business segment, translating finalized brand strategy into how it shows up for that audience across campaigns, messaging, and key moments.
Qualifications:
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5+ years of experience in brand strategy, brand marketing, or a closely related strategic role (agency or in-house).
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Demonstrated experience turning research and ambiguous input into clear strategic recommendations rather than synthesis or reporting.
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Ability to work independently with limited oversight in a lean team environment without requiring heavy oversight to structure your own work.
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Experience developing brand architecture, positioning, or messaging frameworks (B2B, B2C, or both).
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Demonstrated ability to write and synthesize at a level suitable for decision-ready materials rather than talking points.
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Experience working with or managing external agencies.
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Ability to operate in fast-moving, deadline-driven environments aligned with a fixed E-Team gate cadence.
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Experience navigating a company merger, rebrand, or brand-architecture consolidation (a plus).
Compensation
This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
US Zone 3: $121,550 - $143,000
US Zone 4: $113,050- $133,000
At Coursera + Udemy, we offer competitive, zone-based pay aligned to your location, experience, and role level across four U.S. pay zones. Our total rewards package goes beyond salary, with comprehensive health and wellness benefits, bonus and RSU equity programs, and global perks designed to help you grow and thrive wherever you are.
US Pay Zones
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US-Z1: Bay Area
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US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro
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US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA
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US-Z4: AK, AZ, DE, FL, HI, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NV, NH, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, UT, VT, WI
Posting Date: October 28th, 2026
Application Window: October 28, 2026 - November 4, 2026.
We anticipate the application window will be open until November 4, 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or close before the anticipated application window.
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