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Where we Work
Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco with other global offices in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, Türkiye and other US locations (Denver and Austin). This role can be full remote.
About your skills
- Consultative Problem-Solver: Exceptional ability to diagnose customer challenges, propose tailored professional services solutions, and drive positive outcomes through effective collaboration.
- Strategic Vision: Skilled at crafting long-term customer growth plans, leveraging multi-threading strategies to deepen relationships, and aligning Udemy’s unique professional services value proposition to specific client objectives.
- Continuous Learner: Curious and proactive, consistently exploring market trends, customer needs, and competitive offerings to shape impactful, winning strategies.
- Proactive Business Development: Highly motivated with an outbound, entrepreneurial mindset; adept at uncovering new professional services opportunities, building influential relationships, and delivering persuasive, strategically crafted proposals. Hustle and strategic rigor define your approach.
About this role
We are seeking a driven and experienced Professional Services Sales Consultant to join our team, supporting both large enterprise clients (25k+ employees) and commercial clients (1k+ employees). You’ll specialize in identifying, positioning, and closing strategic professional services engagements—including learning consulting, content curation, skills-gap analysis, tailored workforce training programs, and implementation services. Success in this role requires an ability to navigate complex client environments, build executive-level relationships, and deliver clear value propositions that align with strategic organizational goals.
What you’ll be doing
- Identify, qualify, and pursue professional services opportunities within existing and new large enterprise accounts.
- Collaborate closely with internal teams (Professional Services Delivery, Customer Success, Solutions Engineering, Marketing, Product, Deal Desk, Legal, and executives) to develop and deliver comprehensive proposals tailored to client objectives.
- Engage stakeholders at multiple levels, establishing trust-based, strategic relationships to deeply understand client business challenges and position Udemy's professional services solutions as essential to their long-term success.
- Create and execute strategic territory and account-specific plans to consistently meet and exceed professional services sales targets.
- Lead end-to-end negotiations, manage complex contracting processes, and secure agreements efficiently and accurately.
- Continuously gather market intelligence, competitive insights, and customer feedback, sharing findings proactively with the broader team to enhance strategic positioning and value.
What you’ll have
- Minimum of 9+ years experience successfully selling complex professional services engagements, consulting solutions, or similar B2B enterprise-level services
- Demonstrated track record in managing sophisticated sales cycles and consistently exceeding professional services revenue targets
- Proven success in solution selling, crafting customized engagements, and securing 6-figure+ professional services contracts
- Strong business acumen and strategic territory management skills, ensuring sustainable client relationships and repeat business
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 UdemyWe 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.
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