Director, Product Design

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.

About you 

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

About this role 

You will be a key member of the design leadership team here at Udemy, reporting to the VP of Design & Research. You will be influencing the overall design strategy for the next version of the Udemy Consumer Experience, with a strong focus on re-imagining our mobile experience. You will bring your diverse background and experiences to lead products and features used by millions of learners globally. This is a player-coach role, and you will be hands-on in visualizing and prototyping the next generation of Udemy product features while mentoring your team to scale our vision across screens and devices.. 

You will help champion the needs of learners and instructors who are focused on refining and building new professional skills and devise a design vision that helps us cement our position as the #1 learning product, helping our customers to advance their lives and careers through learning. You will build and lead a design team that partners closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, marketers and content strategists to prioritize, create, and ship simple, elegant, and easy to use features across all platforms. You will be leading the team to high quality and state-of-the-art design work with your keen design sense and leadership experience. Udemy and our global UX team are thriving, and you’ll play an influential role in recruiting and hiring designers for your team and beyond. 

Here’s what you will do

• Provide hands-on design leadership across our mobile design team to maximize impact for our learners, instructors, and business partners.
• Partner with your design peers to help drive a coherent and high performing UX across all platforms. 
• Simplify …