Director, Product Design, UB

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*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*
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About This Role
As a key member of Udemy's design leadership team, reporting to the Sr. Director of Product Design for Growth & Discovery for Marketplace & Udemy Business, you will influence the overall design strategy for the Udemy Business Experience, focusing on re-envisioning tools and capabilities to extend the Udemy Learning experiences across the Enterprise business. Your diverse background will guide the development of new features that support administration, engaging business users, and empowering Enterprise teams to integrate Udemy Learning into their Enterprise culture of up-skilling their workers. In this player-coach role, you will actively visualize and prototype the next generation of Udemy Business product features while mentoring your team to scale our vision across various screens and devices.

You will champion the needs of administrators in business, learners and have the interests of instructors front & center. You are dedicated to discovering, refining, and building ways to empower learners and businesses to improve the professional skills of their workers, devising a design vision that solidifies our position as the premier learning product. Your efforts will help professionals advance their lives and careers through learning through their employer. Leading a design team, you will collaborate closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, marketers, content strategists, and occasionally top instructors to prioritize, create, and deliver simple, elegant, and user-friendly features across all platforms. Your keen design sense and leadership experience will elevate the team's work to high-quality, state-of-the-art design. As Udemy's global UX team continues to thrive, you will play an influential role in recruiting and hiring designers for your team and beyond.

*What You'll Do*

• Provide hands-on design leadership across our Udemy Business design team to maximize impact for administrators, learners, instructors, and business partners.
• Collaborate with design peers to drive a coherent, visually appealing, and high-performing UX across all platforms.
• Simplify complex problems by employing advanced UX strategies to create high-performing and polished design solutions.
• Document and operationalize design solutions to enable efficient scaling.
• Contribute to design processes and internal project planning for Udemy's product design team.
• Partner closely with stakeholders across the company to ensure seamless introduction of new products and features with exceptional user experiences.
• Own and advocate for the design and experience vision of our products.

*What you'll bring*

• 10+ years of experience in UX, product design, and visual design for web and mobile products; experience with other device classes is a plus.
• More than 5 years of experience leading design teams, mentoring, and fostering growth and enterprise UX and visual design in product design teams.
• Exceptional design taste with a sharp eye for detail in user experiences; fluency in video-based products, mobile, and game design is advantageous.
• Proficiency in motion design, user research, design processes, design systems and tools, early usability studies, and an iterative approach to product development and deployment.
• Solid knowledge and experience in scalable systems and enterprise tools at scale
• A proven track record of guiding teams through product releases featuring user-facing designs from inception to completion.
• Experience in developing UX for AI solutions, subscription services, or e-learning platforms is beneficial.
• Superior communication skills with the ability to facilitate diverse groups of stakeholders and inspire cross-departmental collaboration.
• Success in building and mentoring teams by cultivating a positive team culture and strong working relationships, with enthusiasm to continue this at Udemy.
• A portfolio showcasing projects that demonstrate your problem-solving process and leadership in achieving pixel-perfect design solutions.
• A passion for joining a design team dedicated to transforming lives worldwide through learning.

Posting Date:
October 13, 2025

Application window:
October 13, th October, 2025

Why work here?
You'll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You'll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You'll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You'll own your work.
We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don't need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.

You'll Build With Others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You'll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You've got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We'll bring the platform and the support. Let's
LEARN
together.
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Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US Benefits, pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.

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