Senior Data Scientist, Instructor

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped over 70 million learners and 16,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others.

This hybrid position requires two days per week in the office at the nearest hub. 

About you 

You’re an analytical problem-solver ready to put your skills toward purposeful work that has a global impact. You want to lead the way in innovation, exploring the latest technologies and finding new solutions. You thrive in a collaborative environment and are eager to work with and learn alongside the best in Product, Design, and Engineering.

You are an analytically creative thinker who is unafraid of ambiguity, has a track record of tackling difficult technical challenges, and has a pragmatic and relentless focus on driving meaningful business impact.

About your skills 

• Analytical Problem-Solving: Tackling technical challenges with a pragmatic, creative approach is essential for generating impactful data insights and finding innovative solutions.

• Autonomy and Proactivity: Independently owning and prioritizing key projects, especially across time zones, demonstrates the need for strong self-direction and accountability.

• Collaborative Communication: Engaging with cross-functional teams and effectively communicating complex insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders highlights the importance of collaborative and adaptable communication.

• Customer-Centric Mindset: Focusing on instructor success and understanding user needs emphasizes a commitment to delivering a valuable, user-focused experience.

• Continuous Improvement and Innovation: Staying updated with the latest technologies, refining data pipelines, and actively contributing to the technical community reflect a drive for improvement and thought leadership.

About this role 

The Instructor Portfolio is a collection of teams focused on driving instructor success by providing marketplace insights, supporting content creation, analyzing learner performance, and guiding instructor-learner interactions at scale. In this role, you will work with product managers, designers, engineers, and other data scientists to build and refine the on-platform tools used by Udemy instructors to manage learning content. Success in this role requires a combination of strong communication and collaboration skills, sharp product sense, a customer-centric mindset, and solid technical skills.

What you'll be doing

• Influence prioritization and key business decisions through data-driven insights
• Serve as a subject matter expert and influence the data science roadmap within the Instructor Portfolio
• Define metrics and build operational dashboards to track business and product health
• Design and analyze randomized controlled experiments
• Design and execute non-experimental causal analyses
• Develop robust data pipelines and continuously improve the quality and accessibility of data
• Build Udemy’s technical brand through talks, blog posts, and publications
• Independently own and drive key team projects

What you’ll have

• 4+ years of relevant hands-on experience in product or business analytics roles
• Demonstrated track record delivering on impactful, independent projects in prior roles
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Exceptional data storytelling and data visualization ability
• Broad knowledge of applied statistics and experimental design
• Expert SQL ability and proficiency with 1+ programming languages (e.g., R or Python)
• Experience building automated big data pipelines using tools like Spark, Airflow, and dbt.
• Ability and willingness to work autonomously, relentlessly prioritize, and collaborate with team members across time zones

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. 

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 package at Udemy “starts with U” and is grounded in mission-driven benefits that intentionally align with our core values. Here’s a sneak peek at just a few highlighted benefits if you’re a full-time Udemate based in the Türkiye:

• 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. 16 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

• Charitable Giving: Corporate charitable match for eligible nonprofits and charities

• Holidays: 15 days of approved leave if the length of service is 2 months in the first year; 21 days of annual leave if the length of term is between 1 and 3 years; 26 days of annual leave if the length of term is more than 3 years (i.e. 26 days for every year after the end of 4 years of service)

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