Senior Product Operations Manager, Autodesk
3D design, engineering & entertainment software
Job no longer available
3D design, engineering & entertainment software
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators with design and make technology so they can achieve the new possible.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years as a Product Manager in a high-growth, complex technical environment
- 2+ years improving how Product Management operates through tools, workflows, operational systems, or Product Operations functions
- Experience working on platform, infrastructure, or SaaS products with complex technical dependencies
- Has built scrappy, working solutions that fixed operational friction, including using AI tools, automations, no-code tools, or data workflows
- Has influenced teams without authority by building solutions people choose to use because they clearly improve how the work gets done
- Hands-on experience using tools like Airtable, Jira, Productboard, Confluence, and GitHub to build and scale operational workflows
- You love to build things. Where others see ambiguity, you see a chance to create clarity and leave your mark
- You are naturally curious and quick to learn. You enjoy figuring out how teams actually get work done and why things break down
- You care deeply about making Product Managers successful and helping them focus on building great products
- You are low ego and highly practical. You build trust by being useful, following through, and making things better for the people around you
- You think differently because AI exists. Your instinct is to rethink how work should operate when AI is part of the system from the start
What the job involves
- As an Operations Manager - Product Teams, your job is to find and fix the structural friction that slows product teams down
- You are expected to build scrappy, working solutions that prove a better way, not just identify problems or suggest improvements
- You should constantly question whether operational work should exist in its current form at all, and redesign workflows assuming AI is part of the operating model from the start
- This is not a role with formal authority; your success depends on your ability to build trust across silos in a 2000+ organization and prove that your solutions actually make life easier for product managers
- You will turn operational complexity into a streamlined, intuitive framework so that PMs can stop navigating internal "fog" and get back to the real work: understanding customers, driving product vision and strategy, and delivering great product
- The systems, workflows, and operational mechanisms you build will directly shape how Platform Product teams operate every day
- Build dashboards, automations, intake flows, and operational tooling that reduce friction for Product Managers
- Use AI to rethink and automate the “work about work:” connect fragmented information, generate insights, and reduce manual overhead for PMs
- Identify where coordination, onboarding, roadmap visibility, or decision-making is breaking down and implement fixes that make the work easier
- Make product, roadmap, and customer information easier to find, search, understand, and act on across fragmented systems and teams
- Scale operational workflows, tools, and practices that improve how Product teams operate
- Reduce operational drag so Product Managers can spend more time on customers, prioritization, and product strategy
Our take
Autodesk supplies software that enables teams to collaborate, design, simulate, and fabricate their ideas in 3D, serving a range of industries such as engineering, product design, and entertainment. Founded in 1982, the company first delivered the AutoCAD system, a commercial computer-aided design and drafting software application, that is still seeing updated releases to this day.
Over 100 million people use Autodesk software across various industries and applications – in some of which it remains nearly irreplaceable. The company has an impressive history of diversification, which it continues to this day. For example, the 2022 acquisition of Moxion, a cloud-based platform for digital dailies used by leading filmmakers, bolstered the company’s offerings for the media and entertainment industry.
The rise of AR and VR technologies is driving modern growth in the computer-aided design market, creating space for Autodesk to expand further. Additionally, a shift to the popular SaaS model positions the company to seek further success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Andrew Anagnost
(CEO & President)Has worked at the company since 1997, including as CMO and Senior Vice President of Business Strategy and Marketing. Became CEO in 2017.
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