Principal Product Designer

As a Principal Designer, you will shape the future of Udemy’s learner experience across mobile and web, producing best-in-class design work. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and researchers to create seamless and engaging learning experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design flagship learning experiences, driving end-to-end solutions that balance usability, delight, and visual excellence.
• Lead by example in motion and interaction design, setting a new standard for clarity, polish, and engagement through animation and transitions.
• Explore and prototype AI-powered experiences that personalize learning paths, simplify workflows, and unlock new creative possibilities.
• Raise the visual design bar for the team, ensuring our UI is not only functional but distinctive and competitive.
• Serve as a hands-on thought leader, shaping design critiques, mentoring peers, and elevating the craft culture across Udemy’s global design org.
• Collaborate deeply with product and engineering partners, ensuring your designs are feasible, performant, and implemented with fidelity.
• Influence design direction at a strategic level through storytelling and prototypes, without managing direct reports.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product design experience, including consumer-facing products at scale.
• A portfolio that demonstrates full-stack design excellence—interaction, visual design, systems thinking, and shipped work that has real impact.
• Expertise in motion and animation, with proven ability to make products feel alive, fluid, and intuitive.
• Strong visual sensibility: typography, hierarchy, color, and layout at a pixel-perfect level.
• Fluency with modern design and prototyping tools, including experience with AI-assisted design workflows.
• Ability to inspire peers and influence executives through the strength of your design craft and storytelling.
• Experience contributing to or extending design systems, ensuring consistency while pushing innovation.
• A passion for lifelong learning and a desire to make education more accessible, engaging, and transformative worldwide.

Key Skills

• Full-stack design excellence—interaction, visual design, systems thinking.
• Expertise in motion and animation.
• Strong visual sensibility: typography, hierarchy, color, and layout.
• Fluency with modern design and prototyping tools, including AI-assisted design workflows.
• Inspiring peers and influencing executives through design craft and storytelling.
• Contributing to or extending design systems.
• Passion for lifelong learning and making education more accessible.

Benefits

• Shape the learning experiences of 70M+ learners and 16,000+ organizations worldwide.
• Explore AI, motion, and next-generation UX patterns to create the most competitive and modern education platform on the market.
• Work as a maker and design ambassador, doing the most impactful, visible work of your career.
• Be part of a culture that values craft, collaboration, and bold thinking.
• Full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve.
• Space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.
• Trust to lead, make decisions, and follow through without waiting for permission or layers of approval.
• Open collaboration and shaping ideas together, with everyone having a voice and good thinking welcomed from any direction.
• See your impact on helping people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward.