Senior Renewals Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end renewal sales cycle for a strategic portfolio of enterprise accounts, executing established playbooks while applying senior-level judgment to ensure predictable, on-time closures.
• Develop and execute customer-specific negotiation strategies for pricing, packaging, and concessions that aggressively protect ARR and minimize attrition while preserving long-term customer trust.
• Build multi-threaded relationships across customer organizations-including procurement, legal, and executive sponsors-to deeply understand business objectives, reinforce platform value, and proactively mitigate churn risks.
• Maintain a highly accurate rolling forecast and exceptional CRM hygiene, providing leadership with clear, data-driven visibility into pipeline movement, renewal sentiment, and strategic blockers.
• Partner closely with Sales, Customer Success, Legal, Deal Desk, and Finance to align on account strategy and influence internal approvals, contracts, and commercial decisions without direct authority.
• Analyze key reten

Additional Information

Coursera and Udemy are now one company, creating one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms for the AI era. This strengthens our ability to accelerate AI-powered innovation and shape how the world discovers and builds skills at a pivotal moment of change. Read more about the combined company by visiting our blog . About Udemy Udemy is an AI-powered skills acceleration platform transforming how companies and individuals across the world build the capabilities needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving workplace. By combining on-demand, multi-language content with real-time innovation, Udemy delivers personalized experiences that empower organizations to scale workforce development and help individuals build the technical, business, and soft skills most relevant to their careers. Today, thousands of companies, including Samsung SDS America, On24, Tata Consultancy Services, The World Bank, and Volkswagen, rely on Udemy Business for its enterprise solutions to build agile, future-ready teams. Udemy is headquartered in San Francisco, with hubs across the United States, Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. Udemy recently combined with Coursera to create one of the world's most comprehensive skills development platforms. Coursera + Udemy lets you choose the best way to work, whether it's from home, an office, or a collaboration space. We're a globally distributed team that comes together intentionally for collaboration, complex problem-solving, and key milestones - creating opportunities for teams to come together. If you're ready to make a global impact, help scale unique products across Coursera + Udemy, and grow your career, apply below. About Your Skills Enterprise Renewal Ownership: You independently manage high-value, complex books of business from early engagement through to close. You confidently lead high-stakes conversations across pricing, contracting, and procurement, expertly balancing ARR protection and contract quality with customer trust. Forecasting Discipline: You possess a deep understanding of SaaS metrics (including ARR, GRR, NRR, and churn) and leverage this knowledge to maintain an accurate, objective rolling forecast. You clearly communicate pipeline movement, risk, and expected outcomes to leadership. Cross-Functional Influence: You partner seamlessly across Sales, Customer Success, Legal, Deal Desk, and Finance to drive alignment and navigate ambiguity. You effectively execute complex renewal strategies and drive initiatives to completion without relying on direct authority. Analytical Problem Solving: You excel at evaluating complex retention data to identify root causes of churn risk, translating insights into actionable recommendations. Additionally, you develop talent through mentorship and feedback, creating a culture of clarity and accountability. About this role The Senior Renewals Manager will play a critical role in driving Udemy's continued growth and revenue retention across our North America enterprise customer base. This individual will own a portfolio of complex enterprise renewals, protect and expand recurring revenue, identify risk early, and lead customers through a disciplined and consultative renewal motion. This is a senior individual contributor role for someone who can quickly understand the business, operate with a high degree of ownership, and manage renewal outcomes across multiple stakeholders, priorities, and commercial variables. The Senior Renewals Manager will partner closely with Customer Success, Sales, Legal, Deal Desk, Finance, Revenue Operations, and executive stakeholders to create a consistent, strategic, and high-quality customer renewal experience. The ideal candidate brings strong commercial judgment, executive presence, forecasting discipline, negotiation skill, financial acumen, and the ability to manage complex customer conversations with clarity and confidence.

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