Director of User Experience, Autodesk

• Candidates must demonstrate a history of pragmatic innovation, alignment building, team collaboration, design strategy development, and staff nurturing
• Minimum of 10+ years of professional design experience
• Over 3+ years managing managers and leading design teams, with a track record of coaching and mentoring
• Experience driving large-scale design unification across multiple verticals or products
• Proven leadership in Scrum/Agile environments
• Ability to set priorities and advocate for a shared vision with diverse audiences, including senior executives
• Expertise in human-centered design, user research, design systems, and content strategy
• Exceptional communication skills to convey complex ideas effectively
• You possess a keen instinct for design, enabling you to identify the right opportunities and ideas to drive innovation effectively
• You create value through strategic thinking and pioneering efforts, rather than merely auditing existing value
• You excel at communicating strategies tailored to the appropriate audience, delivering the right level of detail for each context
• You can set a clear course and guide leaders under your leadership, ensuring alignment with overall leadership objectives
• You understand the importance of integrating user research and analytics into a cohesive set of actionable insights, which you can transform into compelling narratives that inform both high-level strategy and tactical decisions, ensuring effective communication at all levels
• You excel at connecting organizational dots, with strong negotiation and decision-making abilities, enabling you to establish the effective relationships needed to gain alignment in a matrixed organization
• You can own and drive organizational structures and deliver 1–3-year plans, adeptly managing both known and unknown constraints
• You are a compassionate leader with a proven history of designing effective and healthy team structures by setting clear charters, goals, and expectations for team members

Desirable

• The Director of User Experience (UX) for our AutoCAD, Civil 3D and Reality Capture (AIR) team is a visionary leader dedicated to inspiring exceptional design, nurturing talent, and fostering collaboration across functions to deliver outstanding user experiences
• This role oversees products reaching millions of customers and generating over $2.7 billion annually, contributing to a better world designed and made for all
• As the Director of UX, AIR, you will lead a global team of managers and architects, driving the future of design by fostering a modern and innovative experience for our Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Design products
• This leadership role within the Experience Design organization involves leading a global, multi-functional team covering user experience design, content experience design, UX architecture with a dotted line to visual design, research, and data analytics
• As a key member of the AutoCAD, Civil 3D and Reality Capture (AIR) leadership team, you will collaborate with senior leaders to empower millions of users
• Your leadership will unify and modernize our AEC platform, integrating design, make, data and people across the entire AEC lifecycle
• In this trusted advisor role to senior leadership, you will focus on strategy, execution, operational efficiency, and organizational alignment
• You will drive the design process to ensure rapid, data-informed decision-making and visibility of key initiatives within the team, embodying Autodesk’s culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Create and execute design strategies to enhance user satisfaction and drive product adoption
• Balance long-term vision with hands-on project guidance, ensuring today’s initiatives inform future developments
• 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
• Recruit, retain, and nurture key talent, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation
• Promote rapid iteration and continuous improvement based on user research and data analytics
• Collaborate with customers, executive stakeholders, architects, designers, engineers, and product managers
• Execute Autodesk’s strategic vision and act as a thought leader in design innovation
• Pursue emerging technologies and integrate state-of-the-art design methodologies