Senior Data Scientist

At Coursera, our Data Science team is helping to build the future of education through data-driven decision making and data-powered products. We drive product and business strategy through measurement, experimentation, and causal inference to help Coursera deliver effective content discovery and personalized learning at scale. We believe the next generation of teaching and learning should be personalized, accessible, and efficient. With our scale, data, technology, and talent, Coursera and its Data Science team are positioned to make that vision a reality. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist with deep expertise in product experimentation, causal inference, decision science, and machine learning to join our team. In this role, you will be embedded at the intersection of product development and learning science, partnering directly with product managers, engineers, and learning designers to shape how tens of millions of learners experience Coursera. You will bring statistical rigor and a scientist’s mindset to the hardest measurement and modeling problems we face, and your work will directly determine what gets built and why. A strong differentiator for this role is familiarity with learning analytics and/or psychometric methods. You will help us go beyond simple engagement metrics to measure what learners actually know, how they progress, and whether our interventions genuinely improve outcomes. If you are excited by the scientific challenge of measuring learning itself—not just clicks—this role is for you.