Senior Experience Designer

Position Overview 
Ever wanted to help build the tools that designers use to envision a better world? Do you want to grow your career within a global team of passionate design professionals? We are seeking a talented Experience Designer who can help create and deliver high-quality experiences for Autodesk Building Design Products. If you are passionate about experience design, data-driven solutions, problem-solving, user research, complex workflows, customer engagement, or BIM, you have an opportunity to make a significant impact on the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry. The Senior Experience Designer will work on global initiatives and collaborate with stakeholders from the product team, engineering team, and other functional teams across different geolocations around the world. This role requires an empathetic mindset, strategic thinking, critical research and analysis skills, proven data-driven design experience, and a thoughtful approach to working independently, collaboratively, and globally within a large organization. You will report to the Experience Design Manager at Autodesk China R&D Center (ACRD) and be a part of the global experience design team. This position is based in Shanghai, China. 
 
Responsibilities 

• Conducts user research to gather requirements. This includes interviews, ethnographic observation, workflow analyses and contextual inquiry. Creates personas based on research. 

• Transfers understanding of user needs and workflows to propose strategic enhancements to company products. Working with Product Management, distills this into a set of features that will benefit the user in the most effective way. 

• Designs alternative solutions, evaluating them to choose the best approach. Visualizes and prototypes intended solutions. Meets and collaborates with users and development partners to validate conceptual designs. 

• Assists in the coordination and facilitation of usability tests and other target user research with project partners to validate existing and future feature design (including prototype testing ranging from low-fidelity to high-fidelity). 

• Delivers design communication artifacts for use by a wide range of audiences including Software Development, Test Development, Technical Publications, Sales and Marketing. Reviews feature implementation, test plans and documentation to ensure accuracy of desired application results. 

• Facilitates presentations and discussions with users, developers, and product marketers to drive resolution on proposed features and functionality. 

• Partners with development team to drive successful implementation of product design specifications. Resolves any implementation issues that affect the design. 

• Maintains familiarity with other company products and competitive products to ensure compatibility with proposed feature sets. 

• Collaborates with members of the product team(s) in the production of white papers, demonstration examples, and other technical collateral required for product introductions and ongoing marketing. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 5+ years of professional interaction design and usability evaluation/research experience with multi-disciplinary design teams. 

• Demonstrable understanding of modern software development processes as they relate to design 

• A solid understanding of both quantitative and qualitative research methods 

• Ability to develop interactive prototypes and documentation to aid evaluation and development of designs 

• Strong communications skills: written, verbal and visual. 

• Fluent English language skills. 

• Fast learning 

• Ability to solve complex problems and drive projects from concept through implementation 

• Able to influence decision-making at all levels 

• Prior experience with Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch or similar 

Additional Desired Qualifications 

• Experience with any architectural design tools or Autodesk products 

• Previous experiences in AEC industry, such as architect or technology specialist 

• An advanced degree in HCI-related or architecture subject 

• Expertise in modern software development processes and concepts (Agile) for user experience 

• Demonstrable interest in the details and the results of the design process, not just the initial concept 

• Interact with and influence others effectively via teamwork and diplomacy 
   

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law. 

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