Product Design Director

Summary

Join Udemy's design leadership team as a key member, reporting to the VP of Design & Research. You will influence the overall design strategy for the next version of the Udemy Consumer Experience, focusing on re-imagining the mobile experience. This player-coach role requires hands-on design and prototyping while mentoring your team. You will champion learner and instructor needs, building a design vision to solidify Udemy's position as a leading learning platform. Collaborate closely with product managers, researchers, engineers, and marketers. Lead the team to high-quality design work and play a crucial role in recruiting and hiring designers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in UX, product design and visual design for web and mobile based products. Experience with other device classes is a plus
• 5+ years of experience of leading design and mentoring and growing product design teams
• Experience with user research, design process, design systems and tooling, early usability studies, iterative approach to product development and deployment
• A Track record of leading your team through product releases with user facing design from start to finish
• Superior communications skills, ability to facilitate a diverse room of stakeholders and inspire cross-departmental collaboration
• Successfully built and mentored teams by fostering an awesome team culture and positive working relationships. And you can’t wait to do it again, here at Udemy
• A portfolio showcasing projects that demonstrate your problem solving process as well as leading teams to pixel-perfect design solutions
• Eagerness to join a design team that is excited to change lives around the world through learning!

Responsibilities

• 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 complex problems by using state of the art UX strategies to create high-performing and highly polished design solutions
• 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 top-notch user experience
• Own and evangelize the design and experience vision for our learner experience!

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with building UX for AI solutions, subscription services or e-learning experiences is a plus

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, and disability coverage
• Pre-tax savings/spending plans, including HSA employer contributions
• Expanded medical coverage for gender-affirming care
• Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement (plus up to six to ten weeks of paid disability leave for birthing parents) as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay
• Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support
• Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development
• Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) plan with an employer contribution
• Flexible vacation for salaried Udemates and fifteen days per year for hourly
• Twelve paid holidays throughout the year
• Equity
• Bonus