Senior User Experience Designer

Autodesk is seeking a Senior User Experience Designer passionate about creating simple solutions for complex problems in a rapidly changing industry. This role involves designing innovative enhancements for web and desktop-based business applications, with a focus on manufacturing and data management. The designer will craft compelling low and high-fidelity illustrations, collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop workflows and interaction designs, and creating world-class, engaging business software experiences.

Must Have

• Conceive, build, and present high-quality interactive web experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on workflows and interaction design.
• Create professional quality graphics and presentations.
• Drive development of concepts and prototypes for web applications.
• Finalize designs with engineering and user research.
• Facilitate design thinking sessions.
• Engage customers for feedback and iteration.
• Produce user-facing technical writing.
• Partner with designers to promote design thinking principles.
• Collaborate effectively with communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• 5+ years in interaction design for web applications.
• Professional visual/graphic design portfolio.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies (technical & UX).
• Strong understanding of business processes (workflows, Agile, project milestones).
• Demonstrable understanding of visual and UI design principles.
• Proficiency with design tools like Adobe CC, Figma, Balsamiq, Sketch.
• Ability to create high-fidelity prototypes and layouts.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Excellent collaboration skills.
• Deliver high quality work on tight schedules.
• Passion for great design and exceptional eye for detail.
• Drive business goals and desirable experiences.

Good to Have

• Knowledge and experience with design and manufacturing technology.
• Knowledge and experience with CAD software, Product Data Management (PDM) and/or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.
• Strong experience in web design.
• Experience with mobile design.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Annual cash bonuses
• Stock grants
• Comprehensive benefits package

Position Overview

Autodesk is helping designers and engineers, in a rapidly changing industry landscape, look at and solve their everyday problems differently than they did yesterday. We’re looking for a Senior User Experience Designer with a passion for crafting simple solutions for complex problems.

We're seeking an interaction designer for web and desktop-based business applications with extensive interface design and prototyping experience and familiarity with the manufacturing and data management domain. We are seeking futurists, creative thinkers, and self-motivated team players. This is an exciting opportunity to join Autodesk’s ground-breaking solution teams and challenge conventional thinking while creating experiences customers will absolutely love.

As a Senior User Experience Designer, you will drive and develop innovative enhancements to Autodesk's portfolio of web-based design and business applications. We're looking for a visually articulate designer capable of communicating their ideas through compelling low and high-fidelity illustrations that integrate textual descriptions seamlessly. You will work closely with several different cross-functional teams including software developers, product managers, and software architects. You will be responsible for creating compelling artifacts (wireframes, concept designs, storyboards, graphic design) in a web and mobile environment and creating world-class, engaging business software.

Candidates must include a resume and portfolio with password when applying.

Responsibilities

• Conceive, build, and present high-quality interactive web-based experiences that engage users and help drive business value to customers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop business workflows, interaction design, and artifacts to drive scrum team development
• Create professional quality graphics and presentations paying equal attention to layout and functional integration
• Conceive and drive the development of concepts and prototypes that exhibit new interactions for various components of Autodesk's web applications.
• Work with engineering and user research to finalize designs based on concepts and prototyping techniques to gain early feedback from customers
• Facilitate design thinking sessions using discovery, analysis, and ideation techniques that explore a wide range of possibilities
• Ensure that customers are engaged for feedback and iteration
• Produce user-facing technical writing techniques that promote learning and be seamlessly integrated into the overall design plan
• Partner with fellow designers to drive and promote design thinking principles and collaborate/iterate across functions to bring vision and strategy to fruition
• Collaborate with team and others through use of excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years applied experience in interaction design for web applications
• Visual/graphic design (including professional portfolio)
• Strong understanding of technical and user experience aspects of cloud technologies
• Strong understanding of business processes – managing workflows, development tasks (e.g. Agile), and project milestones
• Demonstrable understanding of visual and user interface design disciplines and principles
• Proficiency with various discipline design tools (Adobe CC, Figma, balsamiq, Sketch, etc.)
• Critical eye and attention to detail
• Ability to create high-fidelity prototypes and layouts for design reviews and feedback loops
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently
• Excellent collaboration skills
• Ability to deliver high quality work on tight schedules
• Passion for great design and exceptional eye for detail
• Driver of business goals, desirable experiences, and a propensity for product management and business requirements to help focus on priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience with design and manufacturing technology
• Knowledge and experience with CAD software, Product Data management (PDM) and/or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software
• Strong Experience in web design
• Experience with mobile design is a plus