Udemy is hiring: Principal Product Designer (San Francisco) in San Francisco

Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. 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. You are a craft leadera 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. 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. 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. 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 excellenceinteraction, 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'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. At Udemy, you\'ll join a global design organization led by designers with experience at Disney, Amazon, Autodesk, Apple, and Hulu, committed to building world-class design at scale. Shape the learning experiences of 70M+ learners and 16,000+ organizations worldwide. Explore AI, motion, and next-generation UX patterns to create the most competitive and modern education platform on the market. Work as a maker and design ambassador, doing the most impactful, visible work of your career. Application window: In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity. You\'ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve. What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You\'ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs? We\'ll bring the platform and the support. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies. 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. Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice. #