Principal Product Designer

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Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.

Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home. 

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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.

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.
  
  

• 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.
  
  

• 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.