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Principal Product Designer (Growth & Discovery)
Udemy • San Francisco, United States of America 🇺🇸
Lead a team focused on helping learners discover and engage with Udemy's content. Drive high-impact design work while mentoring and enabling others to simplify the learning discovery process.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on design leadership for the Growth & Discovery team, shaping experiences that help learners explore and engage with content.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, consistent user experiences across all platforms.
- Drive end-to-end design—from research and ideation to prototyping and delivery—simplifying complex problems into elegant solutions.
- Evolve and operationalize design systems and team processes that support scale and consistency.
- Lead & mentor teams by organizing priorities and participating in exploring a range of design ideas in order to provide different perspectives on solutions.
- Champion the needs of learners and instructors through user-centered design practices.
- Contribute to recruiting, hiring, and onboarding design talent, building a high-performing and inclusive team.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product, UX, interaction, and strong visual UI design for web and mobile platforms.
- 5+ years of experience leading and mentoring product designers; experience building or scaling teams is a plus.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating design leadership and hands-on work across complex, user-facing digital products.
- Deep craft expertise and a strong point of view on visual and interaction design quality.
- Proficiency in modern design tools (e.g., Figma), design systems, prototyping, and usability testing.
- Familiarity with growth design, funnel optimization, and discovery experiences.
- Experience with e-learning, AI-enhanced products, or subscription services is a plus.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Key Skills
- Hands-On Craft
- Influence Without Authority
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Coaching & Mentorship
Benefits
- Full access to Udemy courses
- Monthly UDay to invest in yourself
- Budget to spend on whatever helps you improve
- Space and tools to experiment with AI
- Trust to lead, make decisions, and follow through
- Open collaboration and shaping ideas together
- Impact on helping people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward
About Udemy
Udemy was founded in 2010 with a mission to improve lives through learning by democratizing access to skills development. Today, we've grown into one of the world's largest AI Powered Skills Acceleration Platform, with nearly 85 million learners worldwide and over 1.1 billion course enrollments. Our global skills ecosystem connects learners with 85,000 expert instructors across more than 250,000 courses in 77 languages. From programming and data science to business strategy and creative skills, we offer hands-on learning experiences designed for immediate real-world application. Udemy serves both individual learners advancing their careers and organizations building future-ready teams. Our AI-enhanced platform personalizes learning journeys, helping professionals master in-demand skills in today's rapidly evolving, skills-first economy. With over 17,000 business customers and growing demand for AI literacy across industries, we're transforming how the world learns and works. Whether
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