Director, Product Education Engineering

Responsibilities

• ▹Own the technical education content roadmap: what gets built, when, and for which customer segments, prioritized against product releases, adoption gaps, and enterprise need
• ▹Build Cursor's technical learning library hands-on: code walkthroughs, structured learning paths, lab exercises, certification-ready content, and workshops
• ▹Partner with Product and Engineering ahead of every major launch so new capabilities ship with the tutorials and learning paths developers need
• ▹Help engineering organizations evolve from isolated usage to company-wide adoption: designing rollout strategies, acting as the internal technical advocate, escalating product feedback
• ▹Define performance metrics that go beyond completion rates, measuring activation, adoption, and actual developer fluency gains
• ▹Hire and develop a team of education engineers, and define Cursor's strategy for the third-party course ecosystem

Requirements

• ▹7+ years in technical education, developer content strategy, or developer relations at a developer tools or platform company
• ▹Owned a content roadmap end-to-end, not just the content but the systems behind it
• ▹Hands-on and fluent in developer workflows, AI tooling, SDLC tooling, CI/CD systems, and enterprise engineering environments
• ▹Deeply technical editorial judgment: reads code, follows a tutorial critically, immediately knows when something is wrong
• ▹Uses AI coding tools extensively, ideally Cursor, as core infrastructure
• ▹Customer-obsessed and cross-functional, comfortable translating technical details into business impact across engineering, product, and CS
• ▹Able to build in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the product changes faster than the documentation

Nice to have

• ▹Background in instructional design or learning science
• ▹Experience building or governing a third-party education or partner certification ecosystem
• ▹Familiarity with LMS platforms: Skilljar, Thought Industries, or similar
• ▹Experience managing video content programs: YouTube channels, tutorial series, courses

Soft skills

About the company

Cursor's mission is to automate coding; they build the best tool for professional programmers through a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. The organization is very flat, with a small, talent-dense team that values truth-seeking, passion, and creativity.