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Senior Product Counsel

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As a Senior Product Counsel at Udemy, you'll provide strategic legal counsel on products, compliance, and marketing initiatives, supporting Udemy's growth while balancing business and legal risks.
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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.

Where we Work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.


About your skills

  • Communication: You’re able to explain complex legal concepts in a concise and persuasive manner that’s free of “legalese”. You frame your legal advice in a way that engages your audience.

  • Decision making: You identify practical risks and propose balanced solutions incorporating risk mitigation and business goals. Once a decision is made, you ensure stakeholders are aligned in execution.

  • Prioritization: You prioritize effectively, focusing on what’s most important and urgent to the business. You think strategically about how to prioritize and scale legal support. You look for opportunities to work smarter, including leveraging AI to streamline workflows and increase impact. 

  • Agility: You're eager to learn new skills, tools, and subject matter, and you quickly absorb complex information, adapt to shifting priorities, and tackle unfamiliar challenges with confidence.

  • Project management: You have solid experience in project management for strategic and complex problems with high-level stakeholders, navigating dependencies and conflicting interests. 


About this role 

We’re seeking a Senior Product Counsel to join our collaborative and fast-paced Legal Team. You’ll be responsible for advising on products, compliance, and marketing initiatives, along with a wide range of additional responsibilities that are sure to come along as we continue to scale our global business. We’re looking for someone who can help us maintain our earnestly authentic culture while collaborating with different teams to handle projects with flexibility, patience, and poise. This position reports to the Associate General Counsel. 


What you’ll be doing  

  • Provide strategic counsel to Udemy’s product, design, engineering, and marketing teams throughout the entire product lifecycle, from ideation and development to launch and post-launch operations, balancing innovation with legal and business risks 

  • Advise on global compliance matters, including consumer protection, privacy, accessibility, and intellectual property, with a focus on building scalable guidance that supports Udemy’s international growth

  • Partner with marketing teams on campaign reviews, pricing strategies, influencer engagements, brand initiatives, and promotional offers, ensuring alignment with advertising laws, FTC guidance, and global consumer regulations 

  • Collaborate cross-functionally with teams, including support and security, to proactively address risk and build policies and processes that support compliant user experiences 

  • Track and interpret evolving laws, including AI and digital marketplace regulations, and help translate those into actionable product and business guidance 

  • Lead and manage legal advice on high-impact projects, working closely with senior leadership to align legal advice with business goals 

  • Build scalable frameworks and resources to help teams self-serve and move faster while maintaining compliance


What you’ll have  

  • Minimum 8 years of legal experience, primarily in-house advising in the areas of product, compliance, and marketing 

  • J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school or foreign equivalent 
    Membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing

  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate complex legal concepts into practical and actionable advice 

  • Exceptional judgment and decision-making skills, especially in fast-paced environments where business and legal risk must be balanced 

  • Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp complex legal and technical concepts, adapt to evolving priorities, and confidently navigate unfamiliar challenges in a fast-paced environment

  • Strong organizational and prioritization abilities, with a proven track record of managing a high volume of complex, cross-functional matters with limited direction

  • Experience advising on consumer subscription products is a plus


Posting Date: 8/28/2025

Application window: 8/28/2025 - 9/11/2025

At Udemy, we strive to be transparent around compensation. Actual compensation for this role is based on several factors, including but not limited to job-related skills, qualifications, experience, and specific work location due to differences in the cost of labor. In addition to a base salary, this role is also eligible for equity.

Hiring Compensation Range
$157,000$196,000 USD
Why work here?

You’ll grow here.
Learning is part of the job. 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. Many people are diving into AI lately, but what you focus on is up to you.

AI is real here.
We use it in the way we learn and the way we work. You’ll have the space and tools to experiment, apply, and get better at using AI in practical ways.

You’ll own your work.
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.

You’ll build with others.
We collaborate openly and shape ideas together. Everyone has a voice, and good thinking is welcomed from any direction.

You’ll see your impact.
What you build helps people grow their skills, change their careers, or find a path forward. You’ve got the experience, why not use it to help others gain theirs?

Bring your curiosity. We’ll bring the platform and the support. Let’s LEARN together. 

Our Benefits Start with U

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.
 
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 understand that not everyone will match each of the 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! 

Information regarding data privacy is available within the Udemy Careers Privacy Notice.

Top Skills

Compliance
Consumer Protection
Intellectual Property
Legal Expertise
Marketing Laws
Privacy
Product Advisory
Project Management

Udemy Denver, Colorado, USA Office

We are located in the LoDo neighborhood, with access to Union Station, Milk Market and Coors Field.

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