Autodesk Ltd. is looking for an Experience Design 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, fostering a modern and innovative experience for our users.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the primary user experience leader for Building Design products, defining actionable strategies that unify business, technology, and customer priorities.
- Create business impact by clarifying the most important business issues and outcomes.
- Own system-level experience architecture, which spans platforms and 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.
- Provide mentorship and coaching for other designers on complex and critical projects.
- Engage executive leadership and the organization with information architecture 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.
What We're Looking For
- 15+ years’ experience in user experience design or a related field.
- Expertise in human-centered design, information architecture, user research, and design systems.
- Ability to advocate for a shared design vision that aligns with 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 an agile and fast-moving design environment.
- Experience in creating influential relationships within and across product groups.
- Proven ability to provide advice relevant to subject matter expertise to senior leaders.
- Track record of developing novel, highly innovative solutions.
- Ability to lead the resolution of complex problems, often needing to integrate cross-functional processes and outcomes.
- Capability to anticipate business challenges with significant impact on operational and financial success and proactively develop solutions.
- Ability to influence leaders within own function to adopt solutions, establish priorities, and allocate resources.
- Experience leading teams or projects with broad visibility.
Nice to Have
- 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, or conference presentations.
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) division and will partner closely with design managers.
Benefits & Compensation
- A comprehensive benefits package.
- Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location.
- Compensation includes base salary, annual cash bonuses, and stock grants.
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates located on Canada's East Coast.
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