Job Description
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 is a hybrid position that requires two days per week in our Dublin office
About this role You will be the product lead for our instructor and content strategies. As such, you will set the product direction and negotiate priorities across various areas. 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. Specifically, we want to create the future learning experiences needed to go deep in professional skills.
About your skills
Strong Communication Skills: You excel in articulating complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering a collaborative and transparent work environment.
Leadership and Mentorship Abilities: You have a track record of inspiring and empowering team members, providing guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, and fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
Adaptability and Learning Agility: You thrive in dynamic environments, quickly adapting to new technologies, methodologies, and challenges. Your eagerness to learn and ability to pivot effectively contribute to the team's success in a rapidly evolving industry.
Strategic Thinking: You possess a strategic mindset, envisioning the long-term direction of projects and initiatives, and making informed decisions that align with organizational goals and drive sustainable growth and innovation.
What you'll be doing:
- Formulate the product vision to drive competitive advantage and maintain and grow market share of the instructor and creator global community
- Define long term product strategy
- Create and manage a product process that drives toward a scalable product portfolio and business outcomes
- Lead a portfolio of product, design, and engineering resources through quarterly and half planning cycles
- Solve problems for the learners and instructors
- Lead the performance of various product analyses in an effort to establish product differentiation and execution strategies that will lead to the product's ultimate success while taking into account cost, utility, and timelines for product implementations
- Act as the lead evangelist for our content strategy from a product perspective
- Drive the development of product roadmaps, and deliver product enhancements that assist organizations and learners in developing new skills.
- Partner with Other Product, Marketing, Instructor Strategy, Content, Support, and Learning Science teams
- Lead presentations on product strategy & outcomes to a variety of audiences up to the estaff level
- Drive thinking and execution on product line extension into new product areas
- Hire, coach, and mentor a team of Product Managers
- Experience building and leading a motivated, high performing team to successfully deliver and execute on an ambitious product roadmap
- Experience defining and aligning on a product strategy that serves core persona and business need
- Experience leading product strategy discussions with audiences at all levels of the organization
- A tremendous drive to innovate, bring an entrepreneurial spirit, and have the ability and desire to have a real impact on Udemy.
- 10+ years in Product Management with experience in a marketplace model; experience with EdTech/GenerativeAI highly desired
- A great track record of building consumer-grade product experience through partnering with creators at scale
- The ability to ship great products. Flat out. You think about what the customer says they care about, what they actually need, and create amazing product to meet those needs
- The ability to hire extremely well and can manage and mentor; some of the people you've mentored were promoted and serving in higher level product roles
- Proven ability to partner closely with product design, user experience research, engineering, architecture, and data science functions
- The readiness to change the world and have a 'vertical' moment in your career
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 and Built In Best Places to Work.
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. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at .
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.
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 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. Here's a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you're a full-time Udemate based in the Ireland:
- Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage
- Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption . click apply for full job details