Staff Product Designer

Join Udemy. Help define the future of learning.

Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact.

Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home. 

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About Udemy

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.

This hybrid position requires three days per week in the office at the nearest hub. 

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, and Melbourne. 

 

About this role 

As our Staff Designer on the Growth & Discovery team, you will contribute to our UX strategy and execution for Udemy's global consumer and B2B learning products.

As Staff Product Designer for Growth & Discovery, you’ll report to the Sr. Director of Product Design. You will contribute to our UX strategy and execution for Udemy's global consumer and B2B learning products. This includes helping new and returning learners discover, evaluate, and engage with Udemy’s content across web and mobile platforms. 

You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, marketers, and content strategists to define and deliver seamless experiences that help learners find the right content at the right time. Your work will shape how millions of people explore and grow their skills through Udemy.

What You’ll Do

• You have a high bar for product design, and raise the bar for those around you through internal/external thought leadership, driving culture, and leading large scale initiatives
• You are a self-starter, able to bring projects from ideation to launch without much guidance
• You’re highly-collaborative and have a low-ego approach.
• You are curious and up to date on new industry trends and tools.
• You actively manage your time and communication strategy when partnering with collaborators across multiple time zones
• You’re an advisor and ambassador for design, who brings diverse stakeholders together to align and work together to solve problems.
• You present your designs and design process clearly to stakeholders and senior leaders, building trust in the process. 
• You have experience in leveraging design systems in your work to reduce the cost of shipping products while maintaining a cohesive user and brand experience.
• You can move high-priority projects toward delivery in a fast-paced agile environment.
• Leverage expertise and collaborate with a cross-functional team spanning consumer research, data science, product management, and engineering to test, iterate and launch features that advance our mission
• Drive the design process and quality by taking solutions through multiple iterations and feedback rounds to ensure the best user experience.
• Seek and translate qualitative and quantitative insights into opportunities, consider cross-functional dependencies and make informed recommendations when solving problems
• Validate solutions through research and user feedback, evaluating and understanding the impact, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
• Balance business needs and user needs, while drawing on your deep product design expertise, evaluating new risks and opportunities as they arise
• Support and advise on solutions across multiple projects - shipping at scale
• Prioritize and complete work with some autonomy, seeking occasional input from leads and stakeholders
• Apply big-picture thinking to break down ambiguous opportunities into an actionable roadmap
• Give and solicit feedback in order to continually raise the bar for quality and craft
• Embrace our culture of experimentation and A/B testing

 

What you’ll bring

• 8+ Years of Product design / UX design experience, with experience in mobile