Engineering Manager, Consumer

Udemy • Austin, TX

7h • Hybrid

About The Position

Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform built to help people and teams grow. It’s personalized, practical, and focused on real-world impact.
Our mission is simple: to transform lives through learning. Your work helps people around the world build skills they can use, whether they’re picking up something new or leveling up to stay ahead.
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.
Learn more about us on our company page.
Udemy is searching for an Engineering Manager that embodies our core values: leading the way, embodying ownership, acting as one team with relentless focus, and never stopping learning. We expect you to possess extensive knowledge relevant to your domain (i.e., software architecture, project management) and an impressive resolve to stay updated with industry trends and advancements. You should be proficient in React, GraphQL, Typescript, CSS, NextJS (or a similar framework), Webpack, NPM, and MobX (or similar framework) with a demonstrated ability to manage complex engineering projects with diverse teams by driving results, analytical problem solving, systems thinking, decision making, and active listening.
More than just managing, we expect you to inspire your team. In this role, you will be addressing complex tasks, guiding your team through projects with ambiguous parameters, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality services. You will play a crucial part in communicating technical complexities to stakeholders and representing your team's interests.
At Udemy, we live by the credo of 'we are always learning'. This is reflected in our commitment to continuous improvement and passion for knowledge-sharing. You are expected to embrace this spirit of growth, fostering a climate of constructive debates and encouraging your team to plug into our platforms for organizational learning. Being open to robust discussions and leveraging our solutions to facilitate team learning will be pivotal to your success in this role.
Within the Consumer portfolio, our mission is to help learners find the best tools to help them advance their professional skills, so they can accelerate their careers with confidence. As a manager within the portfolio, you will be leading and building a team to help our learners onboard onto our platform, identify their learning goals, find the right learning content for them, and enhance their skills. We do this by leveraging our platform from recommendations, skills guidance, and GenAI, to name a few. You would be instrumental in driving experiences that enable learners to achieve their goals and improve their lives through learning.

Requirements

• Demonstrated abilities in driving results, analytical problem solving, systems thinking, decision making, and active listening
• Technical expertise in React, GraphQL, Typescript, CSS, NextJS (or a similar framework), Webpack, NPM, and MobX (or similar framework)

Responsibilities

• Working with your engineering team along with your cross-functional partners in product, design, data science, product marketing, and others to build a roadmap, deliver features, manage execution, and identify areas for development.
• Communicates clearly, concisely, and effectively with their stakeholders and leaders.
• Using skills like driving results, analytical problem solving, systems thinking, decision making, and active listening to effectively lead engineering teams.
• Demonstrated use of React, GraphQL, Typescript, CSS, NextJS (or a similar framework), Webpack, NPM, and MobX (or similar framework), bringing a depth of knowledge and experience to deliver high quality results.
• Growing your team, their careers, and tracking their performance through 1-on-1s and annual reviews.
• Working with senior management to strategize resource allocation.
• Prioritize, delegate, and juggle multiple tasks concurrently.
• Incorporate feedback from your team and managers to continuously improve your team’s execution and ability to achieve your team’s goals.
• You will extend your networking skills within and beyond the organization - maintaining key relationships and providing mentoring to your team.

Benefits

• You’ll get full access to Udemy courses, a monthly UDay to invest in yourself, and a budget to spend on whatever helps you improve.
• You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.
• We trust people to lead, make decisions, and follow through. You don’t need to wait for permission or layers of approval to have an impact.
• We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.
• What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward.
• 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.
• Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our Australia Benefits, India Benefits, Ireland Benefits, Mexico Benefits, Turkiye Benefits & US Benefits, pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer.
• For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process.
• Benefits outlined are provided as a general overview and may vary depending on the location, role, and employment classification. All benefits are subject to change at the discretion of the organization and in accordance with applicable laws and policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed