About the Role

Udemy has a track record of hiring top talent. This role is an exciting one for a highly experienced General Manager for our Leadership Academy. This is a premier Leadership Development Platform, and Leadership Academy has been an industry innovator. It easily connects people together at scale, to solve complex problems, collaborate, share knowledge, and learn from each other. This is a high visibility, leadership position that will report to the President of Udemy Business.

About you

To be successful in this role, you must be a leader with experience integrating, leading and growing a line of business. You must be effective working across multiple cross-functional teams and able to get things done quickly and at scale. The ability to synthesize multiple sources of information across business/marketing and product/engineering and translate them effectively into short, medium, and long-term product strategy and prioritization is a must. The successful candidate will bring adept leadership experience, quantitative skills, strategic thinking and sound business judgment, along with the ability to think creatively and work across all teams.  

This is what you'll be doing:

• Develop and manage the business strategy and oversee the execution of the Leadership Development Strategy. 


• Define the market, competitive landscape, content strategy, and product strategy.


• Drive the Product Development and Strategy with the stakeholders in Product, Engineering, Design, Data, and Content. 


• Manage the P&L for the business unit, reporting directly to the President of Udemy. 


• Work closely with Sales, Marketing and Customer Success teams to execute the business strategy. 


• Bring your leadership skills, operational experience, and deep industry knowledge to facilitate alignment amongst the teams.   

We're excited about you because you have:

• 10+ years of Leadership experience.


• Experience working directly with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and Content.


• MBA or Masters in a technical field is a plus.


• Previous experience developing a Product. EdTech/E-Learning experience is a plus. 


• Previous experience in developing a go-to market plan and execution with strategic partners.


• Distinctive problem-solving and data-driven analysis skills, combined with impeccable business judgment.


• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with the ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders and teams. 


• Get-it-done mindset: not afraid to roll up your sleeves, and do what it takes to get the job done.


• Ability to work in a fast-growing and dynamic environment, and react professionally under pressure. 

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.

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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