Director, Product Design

December 7

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Udemy

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e-learning • education • skills • technology • internet

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

📚 Education

🛍️ eCommerce

👥 B2C

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-09

Description

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.

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

Benefits

Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life/AD&D, and disability coverage. HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans, including HSA employer contributions. Transgender Benefits: Expanded medical coverage for gender-affirming care. Parental Benefits: 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. Whole U: 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. Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development. Retirement: Pre-tax and Roth 401(k) plan with an employer contribution. Vacation: Flexible vacation for salaried Udemates and fifteen days per year for hourly. Holidays: Twelve paid holidays throughout the year.