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Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced and results-driven Director of User Experience, Applied Intelligence with a futurist strategic mindset, proven leadership experience, and a passion for promoting design thinking to drive alignment, innovation, and strategy.  

Reporting to the VP Experience Design for Adaptive Frameworks in our Experience Foundations organization, you will advance our mission to revolutionize the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry with advanced AI and ML capabilities through generative, personalized, automated, and agentic experiences.  You’ll be a critical partner in delighting and empowering millions of users while contributing to the vision, unification, and cohesion efforts for our rapidly expanding Forma Industry Cloud—Autodesk’s powerful AEC platform that connects design, make, data, and people across the entire product development lifecycle, from concept to construction to operations. 

To ensure success, you will be expected to work collaboratively and independently, locally and globally.  You understand how to facilitate the balance between tactical and strategic design priorities.  You have solid negotiation and consensus building abilities needed to gain cross-disciplinary leadership alignment.  If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for technology and an understanding of the AEC industry, we would love to hear from you. 

This role is remote-friendly within Canada. For those who prefer in-office or hybrid, the role can be in Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, or Montreal, QC.

Travel requirements will be approximately 25%. 

Responsibilities

• Advocate for customer-centric, data-driven, and dynamic experiences that cross product and platform boundaries and align to business strategy

• Drive your team to articulate an innovative design point of view and evaluate alternate design approaches, considering the cost of implementation and the value to customers

• Develop high-performing teams on sizeable cross-functional and cross-organizational projects while managing stakeholders, risk, and uncertainty

• Collaborate cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and other design disciplines ensuring a frictionless development process and high-quality outcomes

• Provide coaching, mentorship, and career stewardship for a team of user experience design professionals including interaction design, design architecture, content (learning) experience, user research, analytics, etc.

• Be a thought leader, staying informed of emerging technologies and trends, to drive innovation and deliver a cohesive and industry leading customer experience

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across a variety of UX disciplines with 5+ years of global people management experience

• Proven track record building AI-assisted or agentic experiences at scale.

• Fluency in emerging software technology and the impact AI can have on critical user journeys (CUJs)

• Design thinking skills and mastery of distilling highly complex ideas into a concise impactful manner

• Demonstrated leadership that supports and enables your team to effectively deliver to strategic objectives, developing skills, and structuring and hiring for future success

• Ability to influence, partner cross-functionally and champion design direction that aligns with strategic goals

• Previous creation and delivery of UX team strategies that directly impact product or platform deliverables and delight customers

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About Autodesk

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We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $169,000 and $247,500. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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