Senior Data Scientist, Instructor

at  Udemy

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.

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