Engineering teams that support internal mobility

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to career growth.

We invest in our talent. Whether you want to level up as an IC, move into management, or take on an entirely new role and expand your skill set, we support multiple paths to advance your career. Even as an early-stage startup, we codified this with a formal program where teammates can request a transfer within the org. Akash, a member of the product team, was previously a forward deployment lead for a customer-facing product. After a couple of years, he was looking for a change, and we helped carve out a different role for him as Director of Product, API Platform.

Another way we support career development is with workshops through LifeLabs for both ICs and managers. Nicole, one of our data scientists, says, “These trainings were extremely helpful to learn how to give better feedback, have more effective one-on-ones, and communicate career goals and other soft skills.”

If you’re interested in moving to another team, product area, or learning a certain skill, we encourage you to keep an open dialogue with your manager and we’ll help you get where you want to go!

This is a big part of why people like working at Course Hero.

We want you to grow your career with us. Engineers are encouraged to grow in their roles both vertically and laterally. With the help of our educational assistance and tuition reimbursement programs, employees have the opportunity to take certification classes and programs to continue learning in their field. Additionally, teams are able to shadow cross-functional departments (like Design and Product) and see the future path of taking their next internal job at Course Hero.

Internal mobility at Course Hero goes beyond upward mobility. We believe that growth and development can take shape in multiple forms, where employees can grow their careers by taking on new roles as leaders or as high-performing individual contributors. For example, a previous VP of Engineering took on a new role as a Mobile Engineer. While most of his career was spent as a Platform Engineer, he wanted to learn new skills, coding for mobile, and he felt that he didn’t get as much hands-on experience in his executive leadership role. This was fully embraced and celebrated, as we are life-long learners at Course Hero.

There are countless opportunities to grow your career here.

Whether it’s the projects you work on or where you’re based (we have offices in San Francisco and New York and are remote across 15+ states and 5 countries), there’s a lot of room for growth at Nova Credit. As a company, we’ve had several folks like Tuvia, who was promoted from Corporate Counsel to General Counsel, move into leadership positions.

On the product and engineering team, we similarly want to see you succeed in developing your career, especially as we continue to grow. Several of our team members, such as Jinting, started as individual contributors and became engineering managers. If you want to move from team to team to work in a new area or learn a new skill, we support that too! For example, James H. moved from a product development focused team to Infrastructure.

We encourage folks to speak with their manager and keep an open dialogue about career opportunities they’re interested in. Helping our fellow team members grow only helps us as a company better serve our customers and build the best product possible.