Senior Manager, Product Design

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.

You are a design leader passionate about building world-class user experiences that empower instructors to share their knowledge with the world. You combine hands-on craft with team leadership, driving both vision and execution to deliver modern, competitive, and visually excellent design solutions.

At Udemy, teaching and learning are two sides of the same coin—your mission is to help creators thrive while ensuring learners benefit from high-quality, accessible, and engaging experiences. You are energized by complexity, eager to simplify and elevate the instructor journey, and you thrive on collaborating across disciplines and regions to deliver impact at global scale.

You see design as more than craft—it’s a catalyst for innovation, culture, and business transformation. You cultivate talent, foster collaboration, and raise the bar for quality, ensuring your team does the best work of their careers.

As Senior Manager, Product Design for Instructor UX, you’ll lead design for Udemy’s instructor-facing products across mobile and web. You’ll shape how millions of instructors around the world create, manage, and grow their teaching businesses on Udemy.

This is a player-coach role: you will balance hands-on design work with leading a team of talented designers in Dublin, while closely collaborating with peers across the U.S. and Europe. You’ll be instrumental in defining the future of instructor experience, ensuring our tools are not only powerful and scalable, but also intuitive and inspiring.

• Lead design for instructor-facing experiences, ensuring our tools empower creators while aligning with Udemy’s broader learner journey.
• Act as a player-coach, balancing hands-on design with mentoring and developing a high-performing team.
• Collaborate across Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver consistent, competitive, and visually excellent UX across platforms.
• Simplify complex workflows into elegant, intuitive solutions that scale globally.
• Influence stakeholders across regions and functions through clear storytelling, prototypes, and design strategy.
• Embed AI-powered innovation into instructor tools, helping creators work smarter and reach more learners.
• Build and champion a strong design culture in Dublin, aligned with Udemy’s global design org.
  

• 10+ years of experience in UX, product design, and visual design for web and mobile products; experience with other device classes is a plus.
• 5+ years leading design teams, mentoring, and fostering growth in product design orgs.
• A portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end design leadership, from concept through execution, with examples of instructor, creator, or platform-focused work.
• Strong visual and interaction design skills, with fluency in modern UX patterns, video-based products, and mobile experiences; game design sensibility is a plus.
• Experience working with design systems, user research, and iterative design processes at scale.
• Familiarity with AI solutions, subscription models, or e-learning platforms is advantageous.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to inspire trust and alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• A track record of building collaborative, positive team cultures that elevate craft and impact.
• Passion for our mission: transforming lives worldwide through learning.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is required.
  

• You’ve defined and delivered a clear UX vision for instructor tools that makes teaching on Udemy simpler, more powerful, and more inspiring.
• Your Dublin-based team is thriving, producing work that is modern, competitive, and globally scalable.
• You’ve launched flagship instructor features that improve creator success and strengthen Udemy’s market leadership.
• You’ve embedded AI-driven workflows into instructor experiences, creating tangible value for creators and learners.
• You’ve built strong partnerships across PDE, influencing priorities and outcomes through design leadership.
• Your team describes the culture as collaborative, empowering, and career-defining.
  

At Udemy, design is a seat at the table. You will join a world-class design leadership team with alumni from Disney, Amazon, Autodesk, Apple, and Hulu—leaders who understand what it takes to deliver category-defining experiences at global scale.

We are united by a mission to transform lives through learning, at a company that already serves 70M+ learners and 16,000+ enterprises worldwide. As part of Udemy’s design organization, you will:

• Shape the future of instructor experiences that fuel the creator economy.
  
• Collaborate with talented global teams across the U.S. and Europe.
  
• Drive bold innovation in AI, subscription models, and creator-focused products.
  
• Build and grow a diverse Dublin-based design team that influences Udemy’s global design practice.
  

This is an opportunity to help define the way instructors teach—and to do so alongside some of the most talented leaders in design and technology.

Application deadline 24th October 2025

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