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About us
At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. We’re a leading online skills marketplace and learning platform, serving more than 69 million learners and 15,700 organizations globally. Our goal is to provide flexible and effective skill development, empowering individuals and organizations to keep pace with innovation and prepare for the future of work.
We believe that talented people are everywhere, but oftentimes, those dream opportunities are hard to come by. That’s why we’re focused on revolutionizing learning, leveraging the deep expertise of Udemy’s 75,000 instructors and the power of our platform, to help individuals sharpen their skills and harness their full potential.
This is a hybrid position that requires two days per week in our Dublin office
About this role
- We are looking for a Director of Product Management to shape the world of workplace learning by leading our B2B Enterprise product team in Dublin.
- As a Director in this area you will oversee the strategy, team development, and organizational synergy of multiple product areas: How we enable Learning and Development specialists to drive professional skills development using our AI-powered tools, algorithms, content, and badging experiences. How we help skill based organizations manage employee learning across thousands of employees and how we provide the operational and strategic AI-powered insights that help organizations determine their upskilling priorities of the future.
- Success requires close collaboration with engineering, design, sales, customer success, data, and a set of diverse stakeholders across the company.
What you'll be doing:
- Lead your team in defining the strategy for building the AI-powered systems and experiences required to win. This is a strong team, so leadership requires enabling, collaborating and empowering not directing or dictating.
- Scale our enterprise operation by building or buying tools that enable sales and customer success to sell and deploy the value in our learning content and achieve learning results.
- Communicate the business benefit of products teams are building across the portfolio and use the financial and product data as well as evidence-driven insights to prioritize this wide portfolio of work.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration and design thinking to deliver successful products and/or product led growth features.
- Work with the product team leads to define, monitor and measure product metrics and KPIs. Incorporate learnings into product definition and development process.
- Build an in-depth understanding of our B2B customers, internal users, integrations, systems, API’s, marketing tools, platforms, and channels.
- Drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver successful products and/or features. We are a global matrix organization, and connecting the dots is a critical skill.
What you’ll have:
- BA / BS required, ideally in a technical field
10+ years of product management experience in building and shipping external and internal user-facing products - Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and collaborate with all levels of management internally and externally to maximize benefit for Udemy and its internal users
- Communicate performance to business leadership and other stakeholders to promote a shared understanding of product performance and user satisfaction
- You have great attention to detail but base your strategy on the big picture objectives
- You understand how technology can solve customer problems and can engage in the details with the engineering team to find simpler solutions
- Knowledge of agile development methodologies and tools
- An intuitive understanding of the differences between traditional software and data product development cycles
- Passion about the education space and the problems we are solving
- Minimum of 5+ years experience managing product managers
- Comfortable collaborating with local and remote Product and Engineering teams.
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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 and Built In Best Places 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. If you are a candidate with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in order to submit an application, please contact us at recruitingaccommodations@udemy.com.
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.
Our Benefits Start With U
Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Ireland:
- Core Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, life and income protection coverage
- Parental Benefits: Financial assistance for fertility (including egg-freezing), adoption, and surrogacy expenses; twelve weeks of paid family bonding for birth, surrogacy, adoption, and foster placement (plus 26 weeks paid maternity leave for birthing parents) as well as a two-week “ease-back” program that enables parents to return part-time at full pay
- Whole U: Fully paid memberships for meditation/mindfulness, therapy/coaching visits, financial planning, fertility and family building, maternity and newborn care, parenting and pediatrics, menopause care, breastmilk shipping, and caregiving support
- Learning: Free access to Udemy and Udemy Business plus a yearly stipend to spend on professional development
- Retirement: 7% employer matching Defined Contribution Master Trust
- Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities
- Holidays: 25 paid holidays throughout the year plus bank holidays
About our Dublin location
Dublin is where our Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) headquarters is located, which means it plays a major role in our mission of sharing knowledge and unlocking potential for learners, instructors, and businesses globally. We have a fantastic central Dublin location with a brand new building, purpose-built for us. We’ve invested a lot here and have seen huge growth in the EMEA market – which is why we see Dublin as a key location for the future of Udemy.
We have also been officially certified as a Great Place to Work in Ireland, recognizing our high-trust, high-performance workplace culture. With so many diverse perspectives, languages, and ethnicities coming together here, it’s no surprise that our Dublin office has been thriving.
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