Where we Work

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 in our Austin, Denver, or SF office.

About your skills

• Growth-Minded Partnership Builder: You're passionate about identifying and developing strategic partnerships that drive meaningful business impact and revenue growth.
• Collaborative Executor: You excel at working cross-functionally and executing partnership initiatives with attention to detail and strong operational skills.
• Data-Driven Problem Solver: You use analytics to inform decisions, identify KPIs, and optimize partnership outcomes with metrics like CAC and LTV.
• Relationship Builder: You naturally build trust with partners and internal stakeholders, fostering productive long-term business relationships.
• Learning-Oriented Professional: You thrive in dynamic environments, learn quickly from senior team members, and adapt to evolving partnership strategies.

About this role

We’re looking for a sharp, strategic, and results-driven Business Development and Partnerships Manager, to help support the growth of Udemy’s direct-to-consumer (D2C) ecosystem through impactful partnerships. This is an individual contributor role ideal for someone who will execute Udemy’s global D2C partnership strategy, driving distribution, revenue, engagement, and retention. Working closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams including Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Data, you'll contribute to partnership initiatives that boosts distribution of Udemy’s world class AI-powered upskilling platform, drives revenue growth, and directly impacts millions of learners worldwide. You’ll work cross-functionally with internal teams and external partners to deliver high-impact initiatives that align with Udemy’s mission to transform lives through learning.

What you’ll be doing  

• Support and contribute to global D2C partnership strategy development with senior leadership guidance
• Execute key components of the partnership lifecycle including ideation, partner outreach, evaluation, negotiation support, onboarding, and post-launch performance monitoring
• Collaborate cross-functionally across Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Finance, and Data teams to vet and obtain partnership support requirements and ensure partnership success
• Assist in conducting market analysis and staying ahead of emerging trends (e.g., AI personalization, mobile-first behaviors) that impact partnership opportunities
• Track partnership outcomes, analyze performance metrics, and support reporting to senior leadership on partnership-driven growth
• Support relationship management with partners across target verticals including career services platforms, online communities, distribution ecosystems, universities, and government organizations

What you’ll have

• 5-8 years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, or platform growth roles—preferably within consumer tech, streaming, mobile, edtech, or online learning industries
• Demonstrated ability to support successful partnership initiatives and contribute to high-impact deals with consumer brands, platforms, or distributors
• Strong analytical and financial modeling skills with experience using data to drive partnership decisions
• Solid negotiation abilities and relationship-building skills
• Data-driven, detail-oriented approach with familiarity with metrics like LTV and CAC
• Comfort working in ambiguous environments with strong proactive problem-solving capabilities
• Understanding of consumer behavior and platform monetization strategies
• Solid interpersonal and communication skills with experience in cross-functional collaboration. 
• Prior relationships with strategic partners in relevant verticals are a plus.

Passion for education, innovation, and supporting Udemy’s mission is a must!

Posting Date:  March 3rd, 2026

Application Window: We anticipate the application window will be open until March 24th, 2026. Based on business needs, this opportunity may remain posted beyond or closed before the anticipated application window.

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About You

You are a craft leader—a designer whose work speaks volumes, setting the benchmark for quality and imagination. You thrive on solving complex problems through elegant, modern, and visually stunning design. You combine deep expertise in interaction, visual design, and motion with a strong ability to prototype, test, and bring ideas to life.

You believe in the power of design to transform learning experiences for millions, and you lead not by managing people, but by inspiring them through the quality of your ideas, execution, and storytelling. You are fluent in emerging AI tools and prototyping methods, seeing them as accelerators for creativity and innovation.

At Udemy, you’ll push the boundaries of what learning can feel like—seamless, dynamic, and deeply engaging—while partnering closely with product managers, engineers, and researchers to make it real.

About the Role

As a Principal Designer on the Learner UX team, you’ll be a senior individual contributor focused on shaping the future of Udemy’s learner experience across mobile and web. You’ll elevate craft standards across the design org by producing best-in-class design work that inspires your peers, influences leaders, and delights our learners.

In this role you will:

• 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.
  
  

What You Bring

• 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.
  
  

What Success Looks Like in 12 Months

• You’ve shipped flagship learner features that are celebrated internally and externally for their clarity, craft, and competitive edge.
• Your work has set new standards for motion and visual design at Udemy, with patterns and examples that other designers emulate.
• You’ve delivered AI-powered prototypes that shaped the roadmap for personalized and next-generation learning experiences.
• You’re recognized across PDE (Product, Design, Engineering) as a trusted partner who drives impact through design excellence.
• Within the design org, you’re known as a go-to thought leader for craft, mentoring peers and influencing how design is practiced across teams.
• Udemy is more visible in the global design community because of your work, talks, or thought leadership contributions.

Why Join Us

At Udemy, you’ll join a global design organization led by designers with experience at Disney, Amazon, Autodesk, Apple, and Hulu, committed to building world-class design at scale.

Here, you’ll:

• 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.

This is a role for a designer who leads with their work, thrives on elevating the bar for craft, and wants to make a global impact on how the world learns.

Where we work

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.

About the Role

We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager, Partnerships to define and lead the strategy for how Udemy builds, scales, and deepens partnerships that accelerate our mission of improving lives through learning. This role sits at the intersection of product, business development, and ecosystem design enabling us to extend our platform through integrations, distribution channels, and co-created experiences with global partners.

As a Principal PM, you’ll own the long-term product vision for partnerships, shape the roadmap, and drive cross-functional execution. You’ll work closely with Business Development, Engineering, Design, Data Science, and Marketing, as well as directly with external partners. This is a high visibility, high impact role that will define how Udemy scales its reach and delivers value through our partner ecosystem.

About Your Skills

• Strategic Partnerships Leadership: You connect the dots between market trends, current partner needs, and potential partner opportunities,  and translate those needs into a  short and long term product vision that you execute. You anticipate challenges, spot opportunities, and design scalable systems that create lasting value.
  
  
• Influencing: You develop relationships effectively up, down, and across the organization, as well as externally with senior partners. You know how to scope solutions that achieve alignment, and you can diplomatically push back when needed to protect outcomes.
  
  
• Operational Excellence: You excel at driving complex initiatives across multiple teams and partners, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term investments. You set clear priorities, keep momentum, and deliver results at scale.
  
  
• Commercial Acumen: You understand how partnerships translate into measurable business impact. You evaluate opportunities rigorously, negotiate trade offs, and design products that serve users, partners, and the business simultaneously.

What You’ll Do

• Define the product strategy and roadmap for Udemy’s partner ecosystem.
• Collaborate with Business Development to evaluate, structure, and scale partnerships that drive user acquisition, engagement, and revenue.
• Lead product discovery for partner integrations, ensuring they align with user needs, business priorities, and technical scalability.
• Drive execution across Engineering, Design, and cross functional stakeholders to deliver seamless, high-quality partner experiences.
• Establish and track success metrics for partnerships (reach, revenue, engagement, adoption).
• Balance short-term partnership opportunities with long term platform investments that make integrations repeatable and scalable.
• Act as a thought leader and trusted product advisor to senior executives and external partners.
• Stay ahead of industry and ecosystem trends to inform product strategy.
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• 8–10+ years of product management experience, with senior level ownership of platform, ecosystem, or partnerships related products.
• Proven success defining and scaling partner facing or integration driven products.
• Strong technical acumen and ability to engage deeply with engineering on APIs, data flows, and integration design.
• Experience collaborating with business development or partnerships teams to evaluate opportunities and negotiate trade offs.
• Exceptional communication and executive presence; comfortable engaging with C-level leaders internally and externally.
• Analytical and strategic thinker, with a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Ability to influence at all levels, manage complexity, and thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Where we Work

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.

About your skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Ability to work across time zones and collaborate with diverse stakeholders

• Strong prioritization skills and ability to meet changing needs with curiosity and adaptability in a dynamic, fast-moving environment

• Problem-solving mindset with eagerness to learn

• Passion for creating inclusive team experiences and fostering connection

About this role

The Product Design and Research team at Udemy creates exceptional learning experiences for over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations worldwide. As a Design Operations Intern, you'll work directly with our Senior Design Operations Manager (currently a team of one) to help improve the systems, tools, and processes that enable our 40+ globally distributed product design and research team (spanning seven time zones) to collaborate effectively and do their best work. You'll contribute to operational excellence while helping foster culture, connection, and community across the team.

What you'll be doing:

• Support design programs, team rituals, and cross-timezone collaboration

• Help manage design tools and workflows that empower designers and researchers

• Develop documentation, templates, and systems that improve team efficiency

• Assist with planning team events and culture initiatives that bring people together

• Collaborate with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers

Ideal candidate will have:

• Background or experience in product design, operations, business, communications, or related fields

• Interest in design operations, user experience, project and program management

• Familiarity with collaborative tools like Figma, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Google Suite, or similar platforms

• Strong organizational and communication skills with attention to detail

Posting Date: 3/04/2026
Application Window: We anticipate the application window will be open until April 13th, 2026.