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Senior Technical Program Manager

Udemy
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Oct 2025
💰 $179,000/yr($143,000/yr$179,000/yr)

About the role

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. 

Learn more about us on our company page.

Where we work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills 

  • You excel at managing complex, cross-functional initiatives with a balance of strategic insight and executional detail.
  • You bring strong technical fluency and systems thinking, enabling you to align diverse stakeholders and clarify interdependencies.
  • You thrive in ambiguity, bringing structure, clarity, and proactive problem-solving to fast-paced environments.
  • You communicate with impact—adapting your style to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

About this role

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you’ll lead high-impact initiatives that shape how we plan, execute, and scale product delivery. You’ll connect the dots across Product, Engineering, and Design - driving alignment, enabling scalable execution, and ensuring our teams can deliver with focus and efficiency. This highly visible role gives you the opportunity to influence strategy, evolve practices, and deliver meaningful outcomes across our product and technology portfolio.

What you’ll be doing

  • Own and lead complex, cross-functional programs from inception through delivery - managing scope, schedules, risks, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Partner closely with other TPMs, and senior leaders across Product, Engineering, and Design to translate strategy into executable roadmaps, ensuring prioritization and capacity alignment.
  • Facilitate technical discovery and scoping processes, helping teams clarify goals, assess feasibility, and make informed trade-offs early.
  • Identify and manage interdependencies across multiple workstreams, proactively removing blockers and enabling seamless execution.
  • Help evolve program delivery frameworks, tools, and rituals to improve team effectiveness and consistency at scale.
  • Champion operational excellence by refining workflows, automating reporting, and supporting metrics-driven decision-making.
  • Communicate clearly and effectively at all levels of the organization—adapting communication style for both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Collaborate with other TPMs to align on shared practices, scale cross-functional processes, and lead portfolio-level initiatives.

What you’ll have 

  • 6+ years of experience (or equivalent) as a Technical Program Manager or similar role in a fast-paced, product-driven environment.
  • A proven track record of managing and delivering complex, multi-team initiatives with high strategic value.
  • Deep experience working with engineering and product teams, and comfort interfacing with creative or design organizations.
  • Strong fluency with technical concepts and systems thinking - you can understand technical architecture and ask the right questions to align on approach.
  • Expertise with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence), with the ability to configure workflows and dashboards for clarity and insight.
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills - you bring structure and clarity in ambiguous situations and build trust across teams.
  • A bias for action and a proactive mindset - you’re energized by solving problems and creating leverage for others.
  • Ability to operate at multiple altitudes - from strategic planning to executional details.
  • Comfort working across a broad portfolio of initiatives, even outside your domain expertise.

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to

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