Job Requisition ID #

25WD86940

Position Overview

Autodesk, a world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, empowers creators to imagine, design, and make a better world. With a rich history of innovation and a dynamic portfolio of software, Autodesk provides solutions to address the full spectrum of design, business, and environmental challenges faced by professionals across the globe. In AEC Solutions, our software gives architects, designers, engineers, construction professionals, and operators the tools and integrated workflows they need to create with ease, explore what’s possible, and build with confidence. Our product offering includes the AutoCAD family, Industry Collections, Revit, Autodesk Construction Cloud, and Forma. 

Over the past five years, Autodesk has undergone multiple major company-wide transformations.  Autodesk’s business model transformation successfully shifted the company from selling perpetual licenses to selling subscription services about five years ago.  Autodesk’s digital transformation successfully led to a redesign of systems and design structures, and created a rapidly growing ecommerce platform.  Autodesk’s platform transformation created a centralized platform to drive cohesion across the entire organization.  The company has embraced platform and subscription and is now demanding stronger and more united and centralized business design, providing users with one cohesive, seamless experience across all products and services.

The Vice President, User Experience (UX) will lead Autodesk’s AEC Solutions (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) UX team, comprised of 260 employees on three continents. Reporting to the EVP, AEC Solutions, you will be tasked with developing and executing a holistic vision for a stellar customer experience. You will incorporate design best practices and operational rigor to develop inspiring and empowering customer experiences. In this highly influential and collaborative role, you will partner with peer Product Design groups and be a passionate champion and advocate for the end user. You will possess the ability to distill complex problems into straightforward solutions and excel at providing analytical and creative ideas to a business challenge. You will inspire great work, nurture talent, and bring teams together in the creation and evolution of products and experiences that customers love.

You’ll work with teammates across the globe and will travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face meetings like conferences, team offsites, and team visits. We prefer for this role to be hybrid to our San Francisco office. If not in the Bay Area, the travel could be up to 30% travel.

Responsibilities

Develop a vision for a customer-centric experience for the AEC Solutions product portfolio as well as Forma, our industry cloud, while leading the team to accomplish this vision

Develop and execute against the user experience roadmap, defining the best practices in all UX disciplines, and ensuring all projects align with Autodesk’s vision and business goals

Collaborate with peer Product Management and Engineering leaders to set priorities and roadmaps

Accelerate the success, vibrance, and visibility of the Autodesk brand by developing a go forward User Experience strategy. Develop Digital Human Interface Guidelines to create cohesion and consistency for Autodesk’s customers

Collaborate with peer Design Leaders to build and manage strong design teams that consistently deliver on goals with a focus on evolving the practice as the discipline matures

Assess team capabilities; recruit, develop, and mentor talent to ensure a world class design organization

Promote a culture of rapid iteration based on insights from customer research and data analytics

Establish processes and methods that ensure a high level of productivity, quality, and reliability

Demonstrate an exceptional understanding of and ability to execute Autodesk’s strategic vision.

Work across the executive team to deliver on Autodesk’s business goals and create tight cooperation and coordination between matrixed and cross-functional teams

Relentlessly pursue emerging technologies and trends such as AI and introduce state-of-the-art design methodologies

Facilitate an inclusive creative process leading the team toward a common goal

Gain deep understanding of customer needs to deliver strategic and pragmatic approach for customer experiences that delight

Ensure design excellence and rigor in planning, execution, and delivery

Mentor designers across the organization in leadership, management, and design best practices

Inspire, empower, and develop a high performing team; optimize organizational structure and staff as required

Minimum Qualifications

As the Vice President, User Experience, AEC Solutions, you will have a minimum of 15+ years of people leadership and management experience in software product user experience design. You are a design leader with a passion for developing and shipping products with a high bar for quality and user experience with:

Experience in design for design/ authoring platform/SaaS products

A proven track record of leading the design of large-scale SaaS and platform product offerings and systems within a high growth, global, and matrixed environment

Ability to comfortably work cross-functionally within a matrixed organization and influence key partners across the business

Demonstrated strategic and impactful executive leadership with senior teams of designers in highly collaborative Scrum/Agile environments

Ability to develop strategic priorities and evangelize and influence a shared plan with a wide range of audiences at all levels of the organization, including senior executives

Current knowledge and expertise in human-centered design best practices, customer research, and content strategy

Demonstrated experience leading and developing a distributed, cross-functional, globally dispersed design organization

Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify the complex

Demonstrated commitment to, and interest in, designing software that customers love to use

Experience synthesizing data and divergent points of view into a single vision

Demonstrated success and impact through collaborative leadership across multiple cross-product initiatives

A top facilitator of the creative process with an inclusive approach that rallies the team toward a common goal

Maintaining and fostering a culture of excellence by recruiting, hiring, and retaining high-performing individuals with an eye towards diversity

An undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience; Advanced degree is highly desirable

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About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

 

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

 

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $292,200 and $401,830. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging and an equitable workplace where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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