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Staff Product Designer, Growth

Udemy

Udemy

Product, Design, Sales & Business Development
Mexico City, Mexico
Posted on Oct 10, 2024

Senior Product Designer (Growth)

Mexico City, Mexico

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.

Hybrid work

Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Türkiye, and other US locations. Our robust hybrid work model spans San Francisco, Denver, Ankara, Dublin, Mexico City and Melbourne.

This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub.

About you

  • You’re highly-collaborative and have a low-ego approach.
  • You’re open minded about everything and always looking to learn more about design, the ed tech industry and looking to try out new methods in your work.
  • You’re capable of actively managing your time and collaborating across multiple time zones
  • You facilitate ideation within your product area and champion the users while managing stakeholder input.
  • You regularly and clearly articulate your design process, key decisions, and the information and insights that informed your decisions.
  • You have experience in leveraging design systems in your work to reduce the cost of shipping products across platforms while maintaining a cohesive user and brand experience.
  • You can move high-priority projects toward delivery in a fast-paced agile environment.

About this role

As our Senior Growth Designer, you will help communicate the value of Udemy’s learning platform to new customers, make it easy for tech professionals to dive right into learning, and help Learning & Development professionals find the right learning products for their teams.

Udemy’s unique blended model is powered by the synergy between our global D2C marketplace and our B2B business, and substantial design leadership experience in (one or more of) the Ecommerce, B2B and Subscriptions spaces is essential.

Udemy was a first mover in the creator economy, and our success is rooted in our ability to transfer knowledge effectively and authentically between our expert practitioner instructors and our learners. Leveraging the latest advances in ML and learning science, we are constantly developing new ways to deliver learning outcomes. You will help frame and present these new offerings to our learners, business partners, and instructors around the world.

What you'll be doing

  • Leverage expertise and collaborate with a cross-functional team spanning consumer research, data science, product management, and engineering to test, iterate and launch features that advance our mission
  • Drive the design process and quality by taking solutions through multiple iterations and feedback rounds to ensure the best user experience.
  • Collaborate with team members on qualitative and quantitative insights into opportunities, consider cross-functional dependencies and make informed recommendations when solving problems
  • Validate solutions through research and user feedback, evaluating and understanding the impact, gaps, and opportunities for improvement
  • Drive the team’s efforts to solve priority problems and opportunities through workshops and other ideation methods
  • Balance business needs and user needs, while drawing on the product design expertise, evaluating new risks and opportunities as they arise
  • Prioritize and complete work with some autonomy, seeking occasional input from leads and stakeholders
  • Give and solicit feedback in order to continually raise the bar for quality and craft
  • Embrace our culture of experimentation and A/B testing

What you’ll have

  • 5+ Years of Product design / UX design experience.
  • A portfolio of end-to-end product design work that showcases your involvement, from research and discovery to visual design and engineering implementation. support, and demonstrates your ability to lead and ship products that users love.
  • Experience working with Product Managers, Researchers and Engineers in previous roles
  • Excellent interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills
  • Track record of designing and shipping products and leading projects to successful outcomes for global users and the business
  • Excellent English oral and written communication skills, including the ability to articulate and present rationale behind your design decisions
  • An ambassador for design who brings diverse stakeholders together to align and work together to solve problems.

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

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.

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

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. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Udemy Mexico Benefits

Our benefits are designed to support you and your family with the protection and care you need, ensuring easy access to the right coverage when it matters most. Here’s a snapshot of the key benefits for full-time Udemates based in Mexico:

Core Benefits:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage: Includes maternity, private hospital, dental, and vision benefits for employees and eligible dependents.
  • Life Insurance: 12x monthly base salary, with a Free Cover Limit of MXN 7.5 million.

Financial Benefits:

  • Grocery Vouchers: Monthly vouchers valued at $2,200 MXN.
  • Teleworking Allowance: $800 MXN monthly.
  • Savings Fund: Both you and Udemy contribute 13% of your monthly salary, capped to 1.3 times the UMA value.
  • Christmas Bonus: Equivalent to 30 days of your current salary.
  • Vacation Bonus: 25% premium on your vacation days.

Time Off Benefits:

  • Holidays: Udemy observes 12 public holidays in Mexico.
  • Annual Leave: 12 days of annual leave per year.
  • Sick Leave: 10 days of paid sick leave per year.
  • Family Bonding: 12 weeks of maternity leave or partner leave for bonding after the birth or adoption of a child.
  • Bereavement Leave: Up to 20 working days for the loss of a loved one.

Wellbeing Benefits:

  • Maven (Reproductive Health): Unlimited virtual appointments and $25,000 lifetime benefit for fertility, adoption, and surrogacy.
  • Modern Health (Therapy and Coaching): 10 sessions with therapists and 10 sessions with coaches per year.
  • Origin (Financial Planning): Free access to Certified Financial Planners for you and your spouse.
  • Workplace Options (EAP): 24/7 support for family, stress, caregiving, financial, and legal issues.

Additional Perks:

  • Udemy Courses: Free and unlimited access to Udemy’s Marketplace and Udemy Business.
  • Home Office Reimbursement: $500 one-time reimbursement and $35 monthly for work-from-home needs.
At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for benefits and equity.
Hiring Compensation Range
$880,000$1,100,000 MXN
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How does your team spark creativity?
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