Senior Manager, Product Design, Discovery
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 196000 - 245000
Posted on:
23-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Join Udemy. Help define the future of learning.
Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. Its personalized practical and focused on real-world impact.
Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use whether theyre picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.
Over 80 million learners and 17000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If youre excited by change energized by learning and ready to have a real impact youll feel right at home.
Learn more about us on our company page.
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
Hands-On Craft: You stay close to the workquickly turning ambiguous problems into thoughtful sketches and prototypes.
Influence Without Authority: You build strong partnerships across disciplines and levels. You can align stakeholders and confidently advocate for great user outcomes.
Strategic Decision-Making: You balance multiple inputs and perspectives and you communicate decisions clearly to drive execution.
Coaching & Mentorship: You grow others by asking the right questions offering feedback and fostering ownership and confidence in your team.
What Youll Do
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 designfrom research and ideation to prototyping and deliverysimplifying 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.
What Youll Have
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 as well as experience building or scaling teams.
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.
Posting Date:October 21 2025
Application window:September 20 2025 - 4th November 2025
At Udemy we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors including but not limited to job-related skills qualifications experience and specific work location due to differences in the cost of addition to a base salary this role is also eligible for equity.
Hiring Compensation Range
$196000 - $245000 USD
Why work here
Youll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. Youll get full access to Udemy courses a monthly UDay to invest in yourself and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. Many people are diving into AI lately but what you focus on is up to you.
AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. Youll have the space and tools to experiment apply and get better at using AI in practical ways.
Youll own your work.
We trust people to lead make decisions and follow through. You dont need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.
Youll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.
Youll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills change their careers or find a path forward. Youve got the experience why not use it to help others gain theirs
Bring your curiosity. Well bring the platform and the support. Lets LEARNtogether.
Our Benefits Start with U
Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits India Benefits Ireland Benefits Mexico BenefitsTurkiye Benefits & US Benefitspages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.
At Udemy we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race color religion sex national origin ancestry age genetic information sexual orientation gender identity marital or family status veteran status medical condition or disability. We understand that not everyone will match each of the qualifications. However we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align wed love to hear from you!
Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
Key Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Production Budgets
- Production Schedules
- Social Platforms
- Content Development
- Personnel Management
- Client Relationships
- Project Management
- Control Room
- Creative concepts
- Newsgathering
- Show Content
- Video production
- Content Reviews
About Company
Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 250,000 courses and 73 million students. Learn programming, marketing, data science and more.
