Director of Technical Product Management

About the Role
Udemy is looking for a highly cross-functional product leader who will oversee the product strategy and execution of a number of internal platforms across Udemy's marketplace and subscription products. You will drive Udemy's product strategy and execution, translating user needs and opportunities into a compelling roadmap while working cross-functionally to deliver an API Platform and Content Tools while safeguarding and protecting Udemy's data . You'll work directly with product managers, engineers, architects, designers, and data scientists, as well as with our business content teams and security teams to ship great products. You'll take part in every type of product work here - from strategy to product to process improvements - conceptualizing, launching, and iterating on Udemy's internal platforms, which enable us to distribute and safeguard our content through various APIs. Key to this role is the ability to design and build automated subsystems and identify opportunities to create automated processes to solve immediate business challenges.
The ideal candidate is personable, collaborative, and flexible, with the drive to manage complex internal products across multiple stakeholder groups. We are seeking a combination of strong technical vision, strategic leverage, team leadership, and high-velocity execution.
Here's what you'll be doing:

• You will be working with engineers, architects, and data platform teams to help reach their end users: learners, instructors, and organizations
  Build and lead the strategy, prioritization, and execution of multiple internal platform, creating a robust FE and BE collection management solution and API Platform
• Manage the performance of a global team of product managers (USA, Dublin Ireland, and Istanbul Turkey), including providing regular feedback, holding recurring 1:1's, writing performance reviews, determining compensation, making promotion decisions, evaluating team against the PM growth ladder, leveling up the skill set of your PMs, helping PMs set career goals, coaching through difficult situations, providing honest critical feedback
• Collaborate with engineering and architectural teams throughout the development process to deliver new features and capabilities
• Define, monitor, and measure key metrics and KPIs; incorporate learnings into product definition and development process
• Influence executives and team members alike to direct the course of our technical solutions
• Ensure business objectives are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of product activities through monitoring and measurement of KPIs

We're excited about you because you have:

• 5+ years of product management experience, with an emphasis on internal tools and platforms, APIs, and scaling business growth through these means
• 3+ years of people management experience; building, coaching, and leading high performing product teams
• Influence; you're good at inspiring and leading teams. You take the time to really understand individuals' interests and sources of motivation
• A bias for action, who is able to move projects forward and lead global teams toward product solutions
• Exceptional analytical skills, including demonstrated ability to use data analysis and A/B testing in order to improve the customer experience
• Passion about the education space and the problems we are solving
• Experience collaborating with local and remote Product and Engineering teams (Turkey, United States, Ireland)
• Bonus points for experience with delivering products for two-sided marketplaces/platforms

If you just can't wait to learn more about Udemy (believe us, we get it!) and the incredible work that our teams are doing, here are a few more resources:
How Udemy Started [video]
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Investor Overview
We understand that not everyone will match the above qualifications 100%. If your background isn't perfectly aligned but you feel you would be a great addition to the team, we'd love to hear from you.
About Udemy
At Udemy, we're all about improving lives through the power of learning. We are a leading global learning company and one of the world's largest education platforms with more than 54 million learners. Our goal is to provide flexible, effective skill development to empower organizations and individuals. Talented people are everywhere, but opportunities can be hard to come by. That's why we're focused on revolutionizing learning, using our skills and expertise to help others develop theirs and reach their full potential. Individually, we bring our unique perspective to reimagine the way we share knowledge. Together, we can improve lives by empowering our learners, our instructors, and businesses around the world.
We are proud to be recognized for our world-class employee experience. Learn more about our Great Place to Work certification here and find out what it's like to work at Udemy on our blog .
Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with global offices in the US, Turkey, Ireland, Australia, India, and Brazil. Learn more on our company page .
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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 Benefits:

• Eligibility: Regular, full-time employees are eligible for Udemy's benefit programs.
• Health Plans: Medical, dental, and vision coverage (100% coverage for employee-only).
• HSA/FSA/Commuter: Pre-tax savings/spending plans available; generous HSA employer contributions for those enrolled in the HDHP medical plan.
• Life/Disability: Employer-paid life insurance (supplemental available), in addition to short-term and long-term disability.
• Retirement: Access to 401(k) with annual employer contribution.
• Wellbeing: Corporate memberships for meditation and mindfulness, therapy and coaching, financial planning, primary care, tele-health, health advocacy, parent/newborn support, and employee discounts.
• Education: Free access to the entire course library on the Udemy and Udemy for Business platforms; annual stipend for external learning beginning at six months of employment.
• Charitable Matching Program: Employer match of monetary contributions to eligible nonprofits and charities that carry a 501(c)(3) tax status.
• Vacation: 15 days per year of Paid Time Off for hourly; flexible Discretionary Time Off for salaried.
• Parental Leave: 8 weeks of leave at 100% pay for parents who take time off from work following the date of birth, adoption, or foster placement beginning at six months of employment; this amount is in addition to pregnancy-disability benefits at 100% pay, if applicable.
• Holidays: 11 paid holidays throughout the year

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