Distinguished Experience Architect

3 Minutes ago • 15 Years + • $187,000 PA - $302,500 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Distinguished Experience Architect, you will lead the user experience for Building Design products, setting strategies that align business, technology, and customer priorities. You will focus on experience architecture, design strategy, and organizational alignment to modernize our Building Design products. Responsibilities include driving design cohesion, leading cross-product initiatives, mentoring designers, and collaborating with stakeholders. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and information architecture expertise.
Must have:
  • 15+ years' experience in user experience design.
  • Expertise in human-centered design, information architecture.
  • Ability to advocate for a shared design vision.
Good to have:
  • Passion for AEC and empowering professionals.
  • Familiarity with Autodesk AEC products.
  • Experience driving design unification.
Perks:
  • Health and financial benefits.
  • Time away.
  • Everyday wellness.

Job Details

Job Requisition ID #

25WD89110

Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking a Distinguished Experience Architect to join our Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) division. As a visionary leader, you will focus on experience architecture, design strategy, and organizational alignment to unify and modernize our Building Design products. You will integrate design, make, data, and people across the entire AEC lifecycle, driving the future of design by fostering a modern and innovative experience for our users. In this position, you will report to the Director, Experience Design, AEC.

Prefer candidates in Portland, OR or Boston, MA to work hybrid/remote.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary user experience leader for Building Design products, defining actionable strategies that unify business, technology, and customer priorities.
  • Creates business impact by clarifying the most important business issues and outcomes.
  • Own system-level experience architecture, which spans platforms, helps drive system architecture and broad product strategy.
  • Drive implementation of new processes and standards for systems thinking across organizations.
  • Drive design cohesion, unification, and modernization across AEC initiatives
  • Exhibit collaborative leadership across multiple functions and broad-reaching cross-product initiatives
  • Partner with design managers to build high-performing teams and evolve design practices. Providing mentorship and coaching for other designers and on complex and critical projects.
  • Engage executive leadership and the organization with IA thought leadership
  • Collaborate with customers, executive stakeholders, designers, engineers, and product managers
  • Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to ensure Autodesk's products remain innovative and competitive

Minimum Qualifications

  • 15+ years’ experience in user experience design or related field
  • Expertise in human-centered design, information architecture, user research, design systems
  • Ability to advocate for a shared design vision that aligns to customer and business priorities with diverse audiences, including senior executives
  • Mastery of effective communication and storytelling strategies.
  • Extensive facilitation experience to choose design thinking principles and processes with clear outcomes.
  • Recognized both internally and externally for mastery of information architecture theory, practice, research methodologies, and strategies.
  • Ability to work in agile and fast-moving design environment
  • Experience in creating influential relationships within and across product groups

Preferred Qualifications

  • Passion for AEC and empowering professionals
  • Familiarity with Autodesk AEC products or competitive products
  • Proven experience working at a large-cap SaaS company
  • Experience driving large-scale design unification across multiple verticals or products
  • Demonstrated innovation through patents, publications, conference presentations, etc.

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 – 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 $187,000 and $302,500. 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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About The Company

Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.

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