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Udemy

Melbourne
1,500 Total Employees
Year Founded: 2010

Udemy Leadership & Management

Udemy Employee Perspectives

I try to create an environment where people can bring their true selves to work every day, where they can grow and develop and really make an impact for our customers.

Gordon Egan
Gordon Egan, Senior Director of Enterprise Sales

What People Are Saying About Udemy

  • Strategic Vision & Planning: Leadership consistently frames the company as an AI-powered skills acceleration platform with enterprise and subscriptions at the core, repeating this across earnings releases and interviews. The merger announcement also articulates a destination with named leadership and a target close, reinforcing a defined end-state.
  • Adaptability & Agility: Communications emphasize accelerated product and AI innovation alongside a deliberate shift from transactional sales to subscriptions. New instructor tools and incentives are positioned as mechanisms to support the evolving subscription ecosystem.
  • Collaborative & Aligned Leadership: Messaging explicitly links instructor success to the company’s subscription model, aligning stakeholder incentives with the strategic direction. Product messaging and financial disclosures track to the same themes, signaling leadership alignment on priorities.

Udemy's Benefits

Engineering team utilizes pair programming

Hosts in-person all-hands meetings

We hold quarterly all-hands meetings, accessible to both on-site and remote participants.

Hosts in-person revenue kickoff meetings

Implements team-based strategic planning

Open office floor plan to encourage communication and collaboration

Uses an OKR operational model to clearly define goals and priorities

Utilizes an open door policy that encourages accessibility