Senior Product Designer - Instructor Team

Job Description

DESIGN AT UDEMY Udemy’s designers are a close-knit bunch who share a serious commitment to delivering the best possible learning and teaching experiences to our diverse community across the globe. We work side-by-side with product managers, engineers, UX researchers, data scientists and business stakeholders in a collaborative atmosphere designers work hard to foster. We like to put extra effort into delivering accessible solutions and measuring the impact of our work. We also celebrate our milestones and support each other every day. ABOUT THE ROLE As the Principal Designer for Udemy’s Instructor Experience, you will lead the design for products used by 60,000 instructors globally. You will champion our instructor’s success in creating and publishing courses, engaging with their students, and managing their businesses - ultimately helping more than 50 million students improve their lives through learning. As the first dedicated designer for Udemy’s Instructor Experience and the first designer in our Istanbul office, expect plenty of future opportunities to shape the growth of the Instructor design team there and build on your initial impact.

You are...

• Helping your agile team to discover, define and prioritise the problems and opportunities you should work on.
• Own the process and management of solution design, from organizing workshops and design sprints, right through to testing the implementation of your designs.
• Collaborating on a daily basis with Product Managers, Product Marketers, Engineers, Researchers, Data Scientists, to ensure you are delivering features that have significant impact for the Instructor community.
• Regularly presenting your work to local and global design teams and critiquing the work of others in order to raise the standard of design in Udemy.

Qualifications

• A portfolio of end-to-end product design work that showcases your involvement, from research and discovery to visual design and engineering implementation support
• A minimum of 5 years Product Design experience
• Very strong verbal and written communication skills (English language)
• You’ve got an insatiable appetite for talking to users and really understanding their needs
• You’re a natural designer with a highly-collaborative and low-ego approach. You’re an ambassador for design who brings diverse stakeholders together to align and work together to solve problems
• You facilitate ideation within your product area and champion the users while managing stakeholder input
• You regularly and clearly articulate your design process, key decisions, plus the information and insights that informed your decisions
• You build expertise in your product area through developing best practices and understanding the competitive landscape

MORE ABOUT UDEMY Founded in 2010, Udemy is privately owned and headquartered in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood with offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Ankara, Turkey. Compensation includes full-time salary, equity compensation plan, and competitive benefits including healthcare, commuter benefits, parental leave and an unlimited vacation policy. Let’s go inspire 100 million people to learn anything they can imagine. Let’s go inspire 100,000 instructors to share their knowledge with the world. Let’s go help 10,000 businesses to change the way their employees learn. Learn more about Udemy, our mission, culture, philosophies, and team . UDEMY IN THE NEWS Bloomberg: Naspers Invests $ 60 Million in U.S. Online-Learning Firm Udemy TechCrunch: Udemy Raises Another $65 Million To Help Anyone Learn Anything Wall Street Journal: Udemy Raises $65 Million to Become Netflix for Education Bloomberg: Why LinkedIn Is Tapping Into Online Education Forbes: Closing The Skills Gap: How Udemy Is Helping Anyone Learn Anything SFGate: Company culture, collaboration is focus at Udemy About Udemy We believe anyone can build the life they imagine through online learning. Today, more than 35 million students around the world are advancing their careers and passions by exploring and mastering new skills on Udemy, and expert instructors are able to share their knowledge with the world. Through our global marketplace and our solutions for businesses and governments, we connect people everywhere with the skills they need for success in work and life. We’re a close-knit bunch that enjoys problem-solving and collaboration, and we share a serious belief in the power of learning and teaching to change lives. Udemy’s culture encourages innovation, creativity, passion, and teamwork. We also celebrate our milestones and support each other every day. Founded in 2010, Udemy is privately owned and headquartered in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood with offices in Denver (Colorado), Dublin (Ireland), Ankara (Turkey), Gurugram (India), and São Paulo (Brazil). Udemy in the News Udemy Raises 50 Million at a 2 Billion Dollar Valuation from Japanese Publisher Benesse Paid Paternity Leave Should be the Norm in the U.S. Breakdown of Most In-Demand Skills for 2020—Finance, Marketing, Sales and Engineering How Investing in Yourself Today Will Set You Up for Career Success Tomorrow Feedback Isn’t the Problem, but the Way That We Deliver It Is Broken Apply for this job