Senior Director, Product Design

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About You

You are a visionary design leader passionate about building world-class UX and design solutions that inspire, delight, and compete at the highest level.
At Udemy, teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin—your mission is to empower learners to grow and creators to thrive, designing experiences that elevate both audiences together.

You are equally at home inspiring teams, engaging with executives, and influencing outcomes at the highest levels of an organization. You see design not just as a function but as a force that uplifts culture, drives innovation, and fuels business transformation. You cultivate talent across borders and time zones, building collaborative, resilient teams that deliver results with creativity and precision.

Curious and forward-looking, you embrace the emerging AI era and are fluent in the tools and methods that will define the next generation of digital experiences. You are eager to shape the future of the creator economy, subscription services, and the intersection of learning, teaching, and technology.

About the Role

As Sr. Director of Product Design for Teach & Learn UX, you will lead one of Udemy’s most strategically important design domains—defining the experience for millions of learners and instructors worldwide. Reporting to the VP of Design & Research, you will shape the end-to-end experience of learning and teaching across web and mobile platforms, ensuring Udemy continues to set the standard for intuitive, elegant, and effective educational experiences. You will work cross functionally with your peers in Product and Engineering to build high performing, coherent and beautiful product experiences.

In this role you will:

• Set the vision for teaching and learning UX at Udemy, ensuring our platform is not only functional but inspiring, competitive, and visually iconic.
• Elevate design across multiple global teams (US and Europe), acting as a player-coach who guides by example while mentoring senior talent.
• Influence at the highest levels, presenting confidently to C-level stakeholders and driving alignment between design, product, and business strategy.
• Lead innovation in AI-powered UX, prototyping the future of personalized learning, content creation, and global classroom experiences.
• Build culture, creating an environment where designers do the best work of their careers—grounded in collaboration, inclusion, and shared purpose.
  Scale impact, operationalizing design processes and systems that enable consistent, high-quality outcomes across products, regions, and modalities.
  
  

Your leadership will directly shape the way learners around the world gain skills to transform their lives and careers, while empowering instructors to thrive in the global creator economy.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of product design leadership, including 5+ years leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary design teams at scale.
• A portfolio that demonstrates not only excellent design execution but also your ability to drive vision, influence outcomes, and scale impact across complex ecosystems.
• Deep experience designing for web and mobile platforms; fluency in video-based, subscription, or creator-driven products is a strong plus.
• Comfort and confidence engaging with executive stakeholders; proven ability to align design strategy with business goals and outcomes.
• Expertise in design systems, UX strategy, and operational excellence to drive efficiency and consistency.
• Fluency in emerging AI design tools and experience shaping AI-powered product features.
• A track record of building strong, collaborative team cultures across geographies.
• Vibrant connections across the design industry, with the ability to represent Udemy externally and ensure our design org is connected, visible, and influential in the broader community.
• Exceptional communication skills that inspi