Job Description

Position Overview

This is your chance to join an awesome and empowered team who is passionate about creating impact and has a lot of fun doing it together! With Autodesk Forma, we are on a mission for a better world - literally - by radically improving how the built environment meets the needs of humanity and the climate. By combining AI, 3d, cloud collaboration and automation, customers can find more sustainable, affordable and efficient ways to solve the rising challenges brought on by growing cities, climate change, and global conflict.

As a Senior Experience Designer at Autodesk Forma, you will discover how we can support a completely new creative process for architects and urban developers. This means helping our users create 3D models by using data-driven insights to make smart design decisions in an easy-to-use and modern web application. You will work closely with product teams in Oslo, Norway, and collaborate with designers and product teams in the US and Canada.

About us

We’re on a mission to help design better cities. According to the UN, more than 90% of future population growth will happen in cities. To respond to this trend in a sustainable way, AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry needs a new generation of software tools and disruptive workflows.

We’re building software to help architects, urban planners, and real estate developers find the smartest and most sustainable ways to unlock the potential of any building site. Outcome-based design, which is at the foundation of our product, takes into account living quality, environmental impact, and project profitability.

Spacemaker was acquired by Autodesk in 2020, to be the seed of the next generation of a cloud-based, connected platform for the AEC industry: Forma. We have an extremely exciting journey ahead of us, building out a platform that connects phases and verticals. This is an inspiring journey you don’t want to miss!

We operate as a fundamentally agile organization, organized to give teams the autonomy to innovate at speed while staying aligned to create a world-class offering. We are organized into cross-functional teams, with software and machine learning engineers working closely with product management and design.

Our way of working

We operate as a fundamentally agile organization. Our teams have the autonomy needed to innovate at speed while staying aligned. We empower our teams to determine how to develop their solutions by supporting decision-making with a bottom-up approach. We are organized in cross-functional teams, with software and machine-learning engineers collaborating with product managers and designers in each team. In our organization, we strongly believe in servant leadership and team accountability. We also see great strengths in allowing you to define how you work (and where you work from) to be most successful. Our teams collaborate across time zones and continents. To learn more about what we believe makes an organization great, look at our product core beliefs.

As a designer, you will:

• Closely follow user needs and ensure deep insight and ownership of the product area within your team.
• Facilitate and participate in user research like customer interviews and usability testing to validate designs and make iterative improvements.
• Translate complex user needs into design concepts in close collaboration with both local and global product teams consisting of designers, software engineers, architects, data scientists, etc..
• Design and evaluate multiple solutions to choose the best approach to solve user needs, while also considering technical constraints and the anticipated value to customers.
• Understand the business and competitive landscape to promote customer needs that align with business objectives and contribute to our overall strategy and decision-making about product direction.
• Take lead and represent Experience Design in our product team triads, working closely with your peer leads from Product Management and Engineering to make sure of prioritization and decision making and represent your team in dialogue with the leadership.
• Advocates for changes needed to deliver elegant customer-focused solutions and communicate effectively with stakeholders about the design process and its outcomes.
• Contribute to way of working and design processes in and between empowered teams.
• Mentor other designers, and build effective working relationships with business partners.

As a People manager, you will:

• Manage 4-6 designers across Norway and Eastern US & Canada
• Facilitate professional- and career development - communicating goals and expectations, fostering a feedback culture, and providing all support needed for development of great designers.
• Participate in recruitment and employer branding - attract, recruit and onboard both experienced designers, but also talent directly from the best schools and universities to build a diverse and inclusive team.
• Contribute to building processes, systems and an overall design culture. Make sure we have systems in place to improve our skillset and way of working – through knowledge or best practice sharing, design review, talks, coaching, improving processes, new tooling, or other means. You will nudge us to always strive for even better ways to build our products.

Qualifications

• 6-8+ years working as an experience designer and 2-3+ years with people management.
• Relevant work experience in User Experience Design. A solid understanding of designing intuitive product functionality, user interfaces, and navigation.
• Great at handling complexity and reducing complex problems down to valuable and efficient solutions for end users.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, and the ability to effectively convey conceptual design work both within and outside of your product team.
• Comfortable working autonomously on a distributed team and collaborating remotely.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working at an enterprise software company that is building SaaS products.
• Interest in architecture and urban design.

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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 – 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!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Diversity & Belonging

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

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