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Principal User Experience Designer, Tandem

Job Requisition ID #25WD9397325WD93973, Principal User Experience Designer, Tandem

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Position Overview

Are you a seasoned designer eager to join a dynamic team transforming how buildings are designed, built and operated? 50% of operational carbon emissions come from buildings, and 30% of energy is wasted due to poor design and operating decisions. At Autodesk Tandem, our digital twin platform, were on a mission to make the world better by empowering building operators with their data.

This is a unique position to join a fast-moving team within Autodesk building out a new market segment. We are seeking a Principal Designer with strong SaaS and data visualization experience who is passionate about building great products. Reporting to the Manager & Experience Architect for our Tandem, you will work on designing features and workflows to support digital twin builders and building operators for the Tandem Digital Twin platform such as designing dashboards, viewer experience and user management.

To be successful, you should be comfortable working through ambiguity and collaborating with a globally distributed team of product managers, engineers, marketers, and customer success managers. This role requires a diverse skill set including conceptual UX, systems thinking, prototyping, visual design, and user research. Preference for candidates located in the Bay Area, Denver, Montreal or Toronto to work hybrid/remote. May consider other US and Canada locations. This is a global team which will require flexible working hours.

To be considered, applicants must submit their resume and portfolio with access/password.

Responsibilities

  • Define, design, and build great experiences for exploring and understanding building data within the spatial context of 3D models, from initial concept through successful implementation.
  • Participate in customer engagements to validate assumptions and concepts, gather input on proposed workflows, and refine the product design.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering teams and product managers to create effective visual and interaction designs that deliver customer value, while navigating technical constraints and balancing quality vs. speed of delivery.
  • Produce design artifacts to drive alignment across teams, including product development, customer programs, sales, and marketing.
  • Gather and utilize customer usage, adoption metrics, and other analytics data to inform design decisions.

Minimum Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional UX/UI design experience working with cross-functional agile teams.
  • Excellent interaction, information architecture, and visual design skills. You have no problem visualizing solutions with wireframes, visual designs, journey maps, and prototypes.
  • Strong presentation and communication skills. You can effectively present work to everyone from customers, to teammates, and executives and understand how to tailor communication style and content based on the audience.
  • Desire to work autonomously, own projects from end to end, and collaborate with globally distributed agile teams in a fast-moving environment.
  • Experience with modern human-centered design best practices and customer interaction methods, and highly skilled in facilitation and design thinking.
  • Expert in design and prototyping tools like Figma, Framer, Sketch, or similar.
  • Systems thinker that can make connections between disparate product experiences.
  • Online design portfolio that demonstrates how you solve complex design challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with 3D products like game design or architectural software.
  • Experience designing for data-rich or complex products and interactions such as CRM, dashboards, or healthcare.
  • Experience defining and building design systems.

Learn More 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 – its at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When youre an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made 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.

Salary Transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesks competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $133,300 and $215,600. Offers are based on the candidates experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, were 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.

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