Key skills
Product design experienceInteraction designVisual designMotionanimationPrototyping toolsDesign systemsAI-assisted design workflowsStorytellingMentoring peersCollaborationLifelong learningAIMentoringPrototyping
About this role
Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. As a Principal Designer on the Learner UX team, you will shape the future of Udemy’s learner experience across mobile and web, producing best-in-class design work that inspires peers and delights learners.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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
- A passion for lifelong learning and a desire to make education more accessible, engaging, and transformative worldwide