Senior Research Analyst Relations Manager

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.

Hybrid work

This hybrid position requires two days per week in our Denver, CO office. 

About you

You love positioning, storytelling, and driving enterprise strategic vision and thought leadership within the global research analyst community. You are a thoughtful and detail-oriented communicator, providing polished verbal and written communications. You are passionate and committed to developing effective, long-standing relationships while holding yourself and cross-functional stakeholders accountable for providing the highest quality of work possible. You take pride in bringing your authentic self to work every day and are collectively proud of the organization while remaining individually humble.

About this role

Develop and execute a strategic vision for Udemy’s engagement with industry analysts, collaborating cross-functionally to drive measurable business outcomes. As a key business partner, lead the Analyst Relations Strategy in partnership with top research firms like Forrester, Fosway, and Gartner to strengthen Udemy’s market position. Work closely with senior go-to-market (GTM) leaders across Marketing, Product Management, Sales, Customer Success, and other teams to define and establish Udemy’s position in the Enterprise Learning SaaS category. Prioritize and cultivate relationships with key analysts, create strategic briefing materials, and spearhead GTM analyst relations enablement to enhance Udemy’s influence in the industry.

About your Skills

• Strategic Thinking & Market Positioning – The role requires the ability to develop and execute a strategic vision for Udemy’s analyst relations, ensuring strong market positioning and influence within the Enterprise Learning SaaS category.
• Relationship Management & Communication – Success depends on cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with key analysts, as well as effectively advocating Udemy’s vision, value proposition, and competitive differentiation through clear and compelling messaging.
  Cross-Functional Leadership & Collaboration – The ability to work across Marketing, Product, Sales, and Communications teams is essential to align messaging, drive analyst engagement, and create impactful GTM enablement assets.
• Organizational & Execution Skills – Managing an analyst relations program requires balancing long-term strategy with tactical execution, including coordinating analyst briefings, managing budgets, and ensuring seamless operations in a fast-paced environment.

What you'll be doing: 

• Build, lead, and scale our first Global Analyst Relations Program; establish key business objectives, strategy, and industry benchmarks to ensure Udemy remains the perennial leader across markets and industry analyst reports, hype cycles, inbound inquiries, and thought leadership.
• Establish and run an engagement calendar to grow key analyst relationships across global firms to advocate Udemy’s vision, value proposition, product roadmap, and competitive differentiators.
• Create, own, and deliver analyst briefing decks and GTM enablement assets with the most current market research, trends, and commentary from analysts and industry thought leaders. 
• Manage all AR operations, including rationalizing agreements and budgets to support consistent analyst strategy days, quarterly briefings, inbound and outbound inquiries, and research requests.
• Drive digital and live analyst engagements across signature analyst reports (e.g., Gartner Hype Cycles, IDC Marketscape, etc.) and at industry and Udemy events.
• Proactively partner across Udemy’s Marketing and Communication Teams to provide guidance on messaging, positioning, etc. from the perspective of our global analysts to ensure Udemy’s unified and streamlined narrative across all markets.

What you’ll have

• Experience managing Analyst Relations programs for global, publicly traded enterprise SaaS companies, or a leading Research company; Includes influencing company placement and commentary in signature analyst reports and thought leadership (e.g., Magic Quadrants, Market Waves, Marketscapes, etc.) 
•  Highly organized, detail-oriented leader with a natural inclination for both strategy setting and tactical execution with the ability to build strong, c