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, with 183 million registered learners as of June 30, 2025. Coursera partners with over 350 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 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:
The Sales Development Team is a critical component of our growth plan. All inbound and outbound engagement with prospective customers starts with the SDR team. As an Outbound Sales Development Representative (SDR), you will be responsible for generating interest in Coursera by contacting prospects, presenting our solutions, and qualifying leads for our sales team. You will work closely with the sales and marketing teams to ensure we operate as a seamless organization, building our business pipeline.
The ideal individual will have experience with enterprise sales/partnerships and be interested in working for a social enterprise. Your knowledge of education technology and enterprise learning, combined with superior communication skills and analytical abilities, will shape Coursera’s campus business to help us provide more access to education globally.
Responsibilities:
- Build a pipeline of leads for the sales team by qualifying inbound inquiries and reaching out to high-potential prospects.
- Conduct effective discovery and qualification conversations with prospects through your deep understanding of our product value proposition and use cases.
- Develop creative strategies for engaging and nurturing prospects using content, email, phone, social media, and any other strategies that work!
- Partner closely with members of the sales and marketing teams to coordinate engagement strategies and improve processes
- Use your frontline knowledge of customer needs to educate the broader team on learnings and opportunities.
Basic Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience as a Sales Development Representative (SDR) or Business Development Representative (BDR)
- Demonstrated outbound prospecting experience including outreach to net-new businesses
- Proficiency with sales and/or marketing tools such as Salesforce, Outreach, ZoomInfo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator similar software
- Must be based in Greater Boston OR Greater Los Angeles OR Washington DC
Preferred Qualifications:
- Comfort working in ambiguous, quickly changing environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication and listening skills
- Experience with high volume requests and excellent time management skills
- Previous experience in an outbound sales environment
If this opportunity interests you, you might like these courses on Coursera:
- Sales Training: Building Your Sales Career
- Salesforce Fundamentals
Boston/Los Angeles/Washington DC - US Zone 2
- $68,000-85,000
Current Zone Locations:
- US-Z1: Bay Area
- US-Z2: NYC and Seattle Metro
- US-Z3: CA, WA, NY, NJ, CO, CT, DC, GA, IL, MA, MD, OR, RI, TX, VA
- US-Z4: All other U.S. states
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