Udemy
Principal Product Manager, Partnerships
Udemy, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
Overview
Udemy is a global AI-powered skills acceleration platform focused on helping people and teams grow. Our mission is to transform lives through learning and to build skills people can use in real-world contexts. Over 80 million learners and 17,000 businesses already learn with Udemy. If you’re excited by change, energized by learning, and ready to have a real impact, you’ll feel right at home.
Where we work Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Turkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.
About the Role We’re looking for a
Principal Product Manager, Partnerships
to define and lead the strategy for how Udemy builds, scales, and deepens partnerships that accelerate our mission of improving lives through learning. This role sits at the intersection of product, business development, and ecosystem design enabling us to extend our platform through integrations, distribution channels, and co-created experiences with global partners.
As a Principal PM, you’ll own the long-term product vision for partnerships, shape the roadmap, and drive cross-functional execution. You’ll work closely with Business Development, Engineering, Design, Data Science, and Marketing, as well as directly with external partners. This is a high visibility, high impact role that will define how Udemy scales its reach and delivers value through our partner ecosystem.
About Your Skills
Strategic Partnerships Leadership:
You connect the dots between market trends, partner needs, and opportunities, translating those into a short- and long-term product vision. You anticipate challenges, spot opportunities, and design scalable systems that create lasting value.
Influencing:
You develop relationships up, down, and across the organization and with senior partners. You scope solutions that achieve alignment and can diplomatically push back to protect outcomes.
Operational Excellence:
You drive complex initiatives across multiple teams and partners, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term investments. You set priorities, maintain momentum, and deliver results at scale.
Commercial Acumen:
You understand how partnerships translate into measurable business impact. You evaluate opportunities, negotiate trade-offs, and design products that serve users, partners, and the business.
What You’ll Do
Define the product strategy and roadmap for Udemy’s partner ecosystem.
Collaborate with Business Development to evaluate, structure, and scale partnerships that drive user acquisition, engagement, and revenue.
Lead product discovery for partner integrations, ensuring alignment with user needs, business priorities, and technical scalability.
Drive execution across Engineering, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver seamless, high-quality partner experiences.
Establish and track success metrics for partnerships (reach, revenue, engagement, adoption).
Balance short-term partnership opportunities with long-term platform investments that make integrations repeatable and scalable.
Act as a thought leader and trusted product advisor to senior executives and external partners.
Stay ahead of industry and ecosystem trends to inform product strategy.
What We’re Looking For
8-10+ years of product management experience, with senior ownership of platform, ecosystem, or partnerships related products.
Proven success defining and scaling partner-facing or integration-driven products.
Strong technical acumen and ability to engage deeply with engineering on APIs, data flows, and integration design.
Experience collaborating with business development or partnerships teams to evaluate opportunities and negotiate trade-offs.
Exceptional communication and executive presence; comfortable engaging with C-level leaders internally and externally.
Analytical and strategic thinker with a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
Ability to influence at all levels, manage complexity, and thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Posting and Application Posting Date:
September 29, 2025
Application window:
September 29, 2025 – October 13, 2025
At Udemy, compensation is transparent and based on factors including job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is eligible for equity in addition to base salary.
Hiring Compensation Range:
$204,000 — $255,000 USD
Why work here? You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll have access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay, and a budget to invest in your development.
AI is real here.
We use AI to learn and to work. You’ll have space and tools to experiment and apply AI in practical ways.
You’ll own your work.
You’ll lead, make decisions, and have impact without needing to wait for approval.
You’ll build with others.
We collaborate openly and value diverse input.
You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills and advance in their careers.
Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and support. Let’s LEARN together.
Benefits Benefits start with you and vary by region. Review regional benefits pages (Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, Turkiye, US) for details. Benefits are subject to change and compliance with applicable laws.
Udemy values diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your background isn’t a perfect match, we’d still love to hear from you.
Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.
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Where we work Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Turkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.
About the Role We’re looking for a
Principal Product Manager, Partnerships
to define and lead the strategy for how Udemy builds, scales, and deepens partnerships that accelerate our mission of improving lives through learning. This role sits at the intersection of product, business development, and ecosystem design enabling us to extend our platform through integrations, distribution channels, and co-created experiences with global partners.
As a Principal PM, you’ll own the long-term product vision for partnerships, shape the roadmap, and drive cross-functional execution. You’ll work closely with Business Development, Engineering, Design, Data Science, and Marketing, as well as directly with external partners. This is a high visibility, high impact role that will define how Udemy scales its reach and delivers value through our partner ecosystem.
About Your Skills
Strategic Partnerships Leadership:
You connect the dots between market trends, partner needs, and opportunities, translating those into a short- and long-term product vision. You anticipate challenges, spot opportunities, and design scalable systems that create lasting value.
Influencing:
You develop relationships up, down, and across the organization and with senior partners. You scope solutions that achieve alignment and can diplomatically push back to protect outcomes.
Operational Excellence:
You drive complex initiatives across multiple teams and partners, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term investments. You set priorities, maintain momentum, and deliver results at scale.
Commercial Acumen:
You understand how partnerships translate into measurable business impact. You evaluate opportunities, negotiate trade-offs, and design products that serve users, partners, and the business.
What You’ll Do
Define the product strategy and roadmap for Udemy’s partner ecosystem.
Collaborate with Business Development to evaluate, structure, and scale partnerships that drive user acquisition, engagement, and revenue.
Lead product discovery for partner integrations, ensuring alignment with user needs, business priorities, and technical scalability.
Drive execution across Engineering, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver seamless, high-quality partner experiences.
Establish and track success metrics for partnerships (reach, revenue, engagement, adoption).
Balance short-term partnership opportunities with long-term platform investments that make integrations repeatable and scalable.
Act as a thought leader and trusted product advisor to senior executives and external partners.
Stay ahead of industry and ecosystem trends to inform product strategy.
What We’re Looking For
8-10+ years of product management experience, with senior ownership of platform, ecosystem, or partnerships related products.
Proven success defining and scaling partner-facing or integration-driven products.
Strong technical acumen and ability to engage deeply with engineering on APIs, data flows, and integration design.
Experience collaborating with business development or partnerships teams to evaluate opportunities and negotiate trade-offs.
Exceptional communication and executive presence; comfortable engaging with C-level leaders internally and externally.
Analytical and strategic thinker with a track record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
Ability to influence at all levels, manage complexity, and thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Posting and Application Posting Date:
September 29, 2025
Application window:
September 29, 2025 – October 13, 2025
At Udemy, compensation is transparent and based on factors including job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This role is eligible for equity in addition to base salary.
Hiring Compensation Range:
$204,000 — $255,000 USD
Why work here? You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. You’ll have access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay, and a budget to invest in your development.
AI is real here.
We use AI to learn and to work. You’ll have space and tools to experiment and apply AI in practical ways.
You’ll own your work.
You’ll lead, make decisions, and have impact without needing to wait for approval.
You’ll build with others.
We collaborate openly and value diverse input.
You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills and advance in their careers.
Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and support. Let’s LEARN together.
Benefits Benefits start with you and vary by region. Review regional benefits pages (Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, Turkiye, US) for details. Benefits are subject to change and compliance with applicable laws.
Udemy values diversity and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your background isn’t a perfect match, we’d still love to hear from you.
Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.
#J-18808-Ljbffr