Autodesk de Costa Rica, S.R.L. is hiring a Principal Experience Designer to lead design from strategy to implementation for the Takeoff product. You will shape compelling user experiences for preconstruction professionals, transforming complex quantification workflows into simple, powerful tools.
What You'll Do
- Partner with product managers, engineering, and research to define great experiences for complex, multi-workflow initiatives that scale.
- Independently frame ambiguous problems, define opportunity spaces, and drive cross-team initiatives from discovery through delivery.
- Visualize and prototype solutions at various levels of fidelity including conceptual diagrams, wireframes, and detailed specifications.
- Present design work clearly to stakeholders and leadership, articulating platform tradeoffs, impact, and vision.
- Collaborate closely with one or more remote teams, working iteratively to deliver customer value.
- Plan, conduct, and synthesize user research for complex initiatives, selecting appropriate methodologies.
- Lead design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges.
- Work within an evolving design system, while contributing improvements to evolve and expand standards.
- Contribute to team culture through critique, mentorship, and collaboration.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of UX or product design experience, including delivering complex, multi-product ecosystems.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating recent user-centered design work.
- Proven ability to lead end-to-end design processes, from discovery and ideation through delivery.
- Demonstrable experience utilizing a variety of human-centered design methods and best practices.
- Strong proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools.
- Experience planning, conducting, and applying both qualitative and quantitative user research.
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence.
- Comfortable working in a cross-functionally collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity or interest in AI-assisted workflows, agentic interfaces, or emerging interaction models.
- BA/BS or graduate degree in HCI, interaction design, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with agile software design methods.
- Experience designing for enterprise-scale or complex ecosystems with multiple products.
- Experience contributing to or evolving design systems within a platform context.
- Familiarity or interest in construction, architecture, engineering, or the built environment.
- Comfortable working on a distributed team and collaborating remotely.
Technical Stack
- Modern design and prototyping tools.
Team & Environment
You will join a globally distributed team of product managers, engineers, designers, and researchers.
Benefits & Compensation
- A comprehensive benefits package.
- For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $116,000 and $170,500.
Work Mode
This role is remote-friendly, open to candidates located in Canada.
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