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Director User Experience, AEC Platform Data

Job Requisition ID #25WD91561

Position Overview

We seek an experienced and results-driven Director of User Experience Design who inspires great work, nurtures talent, and can bring people together in the creation and evolution of best-in-class experiences that customers love. As a leader in our Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Data Platform team, you will lead and advance our mission to reimagine the way customers capture, utilize, and exchange Building Information Modeling (BIM) data. Reporting to the Vice President of Experience Design, AEC Platform, the successful candidate will have a strategic mindset, proven leadership experience, and a passion for promoting design thinking to drive alignment, innovation, and contribution to product strategy. In this role you’ll partner with teams for Revit, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Autodesk Platform Services, Autodesk Construction Solutions, and Forma to introduce new data workflows for customers. You’ll lead a team focused on defining the experience of how AEC data is stored and exchanged between teams, companies, and applications and foster the creation of the data infrastructure on which Autodesk’s future AEC products will be built. To ensure success, you will be expected to work collaboratively and independently, locally and globally. You understand how to facilitate the balance between tactical and strategic design priorities. You have solid negotiation and consensus building abilities needed to gain cross-disciplinary leadership alignment. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for technology and an understanding of the AEC industry, we would love to hear from you. With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. Autodesk is continually ranked a top place to work by Fortune, Forbes, Glassdoor, and others. We are open to candidates based in the United States and Canada, Eastern Time Zone with Toronto area preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Advocate for customer-centric and dynamic experiences that cross hardware and platform boundaries and align to business strategy
  • Drive your team to articulate a design vision and evaluate alternate design approaches, considering the cost of implementation and the value to customers
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and other design disciplines ensuring a frictionless development process and high-quality outcomes
  • Provide coaching, mentorship and career stewardship for a team of user experience design professionals including interaction design, design architecture, content (learning) experience, analytics, etc.
  • Harness data and insight to drive priorities, personalization, and agentic experiences
  • Develop high-performing teams on sizeable cross-functional and cross-organizational projects while managing stakeholders, risk, and uncertainty
  • Be a thought leader, staying informed of emerging technologies and trends, to ensure alignment across Autodesk to deliver a cohesive and industry leading customer experience

Minimum Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience across a variety of UX disciplines with 5+ years of global people management experience
  • Passion for data and the impact digitalization can have on customers
  • Design thinking skills and mastery of distilling highly complex ideas into a concise impactful manner
  • Demonstrated leadership that supports and enables your team to effectively deliver to strategic objectives, developing skills, and structuring and hiring for future success
  • Ability to influence, partner cross-functionally and champion design direction that aligns with strategic goals
  • Previous creation and delivery of UX team strategies that directly impact product or platform deliverables and delight customers

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