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Principal Product Designer

AT Udemy
Udemy

Principal Product Designer

Istanbul, Turkey

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.
This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub.
About you

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

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About this role

As a Product Designer for the Instructor Experience portfolio, you will manage the team responsible for designing the experiences helping tens of thousands of instructors create and manage their courses on Udemy and Udemy Business. Our instructors are passionate, creative entrepreneurs who want to share their expertise with the world. Your mission will be to enable them to create high quality content and support their students throughout the learning journey through new features, tools, and dashboards.
What you'll be doing
  • Seek qualitative and quantitative data to inform hypothesis about how to improve the Instructor user experience
  • Facilitate your teams effort to solve priority problems and opportunities through workshops and other ideation methods
  • Own the solution design process, taking it through multiple iterations and rounds of feedback with your team, stakeholders, the design group and the potential users.
  • Leverage expertise and collaborate with a cross-functional team spanning consumer research, data science, product management, and engineering to test, iterate and launch features that advance our mission
  • Drive the design process and quality by taking solutions through multiple iterations and feedback rounds to ensure the best user experience.
  • Partnering with and mentoring junior designers in order to help them advance their craft.

    What you’ll have
    • 7+ Years of Product design / UX design experience
    • A portfolio of end-to-end product design work that showcases your involvement with research, discovery, visual design, implementation and measuring impact.
    • Collaborated with Product Managers, Researchers and Engineers in your previous roles, representing design needs and value.
    • A highly-collaborative and low-ego approach.
    • An open mind about everything and always looking to learn more about design, the ed tech industry and looking to try out new methods in your work.
    • You’re an ambassador for design who brings diverse stakeholders together to align and work together to solve problems.
    • Fluent English

      We understand that not everyone will match each of the above 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, we'd love to hear from you!
      Life at Udemy

      We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:
      • We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

      • Learning is what we do - inside and out. Our Learning &; Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

      • Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning - that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

      • We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work.

        Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

        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.
        Our Benefits Start With U

        Our benefits package at Udemy "starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Türkiye:
        • Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage

        • Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement. 16 weeks paid maternity leave for birthing parents as well as a two-week "ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay

        • Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support

        • Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development

        • Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities

        • Holidays: 15 days of approved leave if the length of service is 2 months in the first year; 21 days of annual leave if the length of term is between 1 and 3 years; 26 days of annual leave if the length of term is more than 3 years (i.e. 26 days for every year after the end of 4 years of service)

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Client-provided location(s): İstanbul, Türkiye
Job ID: Udemy-5343757004
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • FSA
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Company Outings
    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Leave of Absence
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Paid Holidays
    • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Relocation Assistance
    • Performance Bonus
    • Company Equity
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
  • Professional Development

    • Learning and Development Stipend
    • Promote From Within
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program