Brand Strategy Manager

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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.

Core discipline for leading strategic work streams and developing clear positioning, architecture, and recommendation frameworks for the rebrand.

Essential for generating unique insights and competitive advantages from ambiguous research and cross-functional input under tight timelines.

Necessary to translate finalized strategy into consistent brand activation and perception management across assigned business segment.

• Lead assigned strategic work streams 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Support and help facilitate workshops and decision sessions by developing exercises and prompts and synthesizing output into usable recommendations.
• Support agency development by prepping strategic inputs, evaluating agency work against approved strategy, drafting feedback, and leading delegated agency discussions.
• 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.

• 5+ years of experience in brand strategy, brand marketing, or a closely related strategic role (agency or in-house).
• Demonstrated experience turning research and ambiguous input into clear strategic recommendations rather…