Distinguished Experience Architect

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.

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/

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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