Udemy

Principal Product Designer

Udemy

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: San Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $196,000 - $245,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Produce best-in-class design work that inspires peers, influences leaders, and delights learners across mobile and web.
  • 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 standards for clarity, polish, and engagement through animation and transitions.
  • Explore and prototype AI-powered experiences to personalize learning paths and simplify workflows.
  • Raise the visual design bar and ensure UI is distinctive and competitive.
  • Serve as a hands-on thought leader: shape design critiques, mentor peers, and elevate craft culture across Udemy’s global design org.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to ensure designs are feasible, performant, and implemented with fidelity.
  • Influence design direction at a strategic level through storytelling and prototypes.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Passion for lifelong learning and a desire to make education more accessible, engaging, and transformative worldwide.
Benefits
  • In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.
  • Full access to Udemy courses
  • A monthly UDay to invest in yourself
  • A budget to spend on whatever helps you improve
  • Benefits vary by region (Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, Turkiye, US)
  • Benefits designed to provide you and your family with protection and care
  • Region-specific benefits pages (Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits, US Benefits)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
product designinteraction designvisual designmotion designanimationsystems thinkingdesign systemsAI-powered designprototypingusability
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringstorytellinginfluencecollaborationcreativitycommunicationinspirationcritical thinkingpassion for learning
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