Chief of Staff, Industry, Product and Emerging Business Marketing

As Chief of Staff for Industry, Product and Emerging Business Marketing at Autodesk, you will directly impact full-stack marketing for emerging business and industry clouds. Reporting to the VP of Industry Portfolio Marketing, you will lead the senior management team to build a healthy organization, optimize operational models, and design cross-organizational processes. This role is crucial during a period of transformation with AI, focusing on strategic planning, operational efficiency, and driving accountability for short and long-term goals.

Must Have

• Plan and facilitate executive meetings and workshops.
• Design and guide outcome-oriented strategic meetings.
• Frame problems and develop models for understanding trade-offs.
• Track and communicate OKRs and quarterly deliverables.
• Act as trusted counsel to executive and senior leaders.
• Partner with Finance, HR, Product Management, Marketing, Sales.
• Manage internal and external communications.
• Support executive presentation content development.
• Champion collaboration and open communication across teams.
• Minimum 10 years leading complex projects/programs.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Good to Have

• MBA

Perks & Benefits

• Health benefits
• Financial benefits
• Time away
• Wellness programs

Position Overview

Marketing at Autodesk is delivering impactful customer experiences, engaging content and driving revenue at a time of rapid growth and advancement. As our Chief of Staff, Industry, Product and Emerging Business Marketing, you’ll have an opportunity to directly impact our full stack marketing for emerging business and industry clouds.

Reporting to the Vice President of Industry Portfolio Marketing, you will lead our senior management team to build a healthy organization and design/optimize operational models and cross-organizational processes and programs that enable achieving objectives. This is a pivotal time to join when we’re moving through transformation with AI.

The role requires a highly resourceful individual who can build strategy and operationalize for the team including leading for the rhythm of the team, the business, designing efficient and effective meetings, supporting delivery of short and long-term goals and driving accountability.

Position requires location in the Bay Area and willingness to work hybrid/remote from our San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

• Plan and facilitate executive meetings/workshops with the rest of the organization. Formulate meeting topics, build and advise on agendas, facilitate, summarize notes and action items, follow up.
• Design and guide outcome oriented strategic meetings & workshops. This could include team-building sessions, organizational reviews, strategy discussions, and other topics for team meetings.
• Ability to frame problems and find structures/models that help people better understand the problem and trade-offs required.
• Track and communicate organization OKRs and Quarterly WWM deliverables. Aid in the creation of the organization’s yearly goals, objectives and key results. Track and report out on a quarterly basis. Main point of contact to provide updates on defined set of quarterly deliverables.
• Act as ‘trusted counsel’ to the executive and senior leaders. Provide insight and analysis on the organization’s operations, key decisions and other business areas as well as represent the executive in certain meetings he/she is unable to attend.
• Partner closely with other functions relevant to the team, including Finance, HR, Product Management, Marketing and Sales.
• Manage internal and external communications, including Autodesk-wide communications.
• Support development of presentation content for the executive such as presentations for executive meetings, customer meetings, etc.
• Champion a spirit of collaboration and open communication, working across teams to advance organizational goals and engendering trust with other Chiefs of Staff across the company, sharing and developing best practices.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10 + years of demonstrated success leading large, complex projects and / or programs across teams or organizations, often working on multiple projects at the same time
• Bachelor’s degree or higher. MBA may be an advantage, but not mandatory
• Solid business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving, and organizational skills, including ability to distill complex issues into structured frameworks and concrete action plans
• Versatile self-starter with a team-oriented work style. Ability to build credibility and relationships quickly across functions and levels
• Persuasive leader with experience driving initiatives with demonstrable outcomes, engaging with executives, and supporting others to articulate a vision
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to communicate complex concepts concisely, clearly and effectively across multiple levels including executive leadership team, peers, managers and junior staff
• Team organizer, builder, and motivator with exceptional influencing skills who can exercise judgment related to prioritization and risk management
• Experience building programs that enhance the effectiveness and engagement of teams
• Trustworthy with high integrity, and the ability to maintain appropriate confidentiality
• Act as a thought partner to leadership

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 – it’s 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 you’re 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. 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 $143,000 and $231,220. Offers are based on the candidate’s 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, 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.

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