Director Business Strategy, Media & Entertainment

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Our Media & Entertainment division is looking for a Director of Business Strategy.  Reporting to the VP of M&E Strategy, this leader will manage a team to shape and advance the go-to-market strategies and business for our M&E portfolio. 

This role demands a strategic, action-oriented leader who can cut through ambiguity and validate market opportunities to drive M&E growth.   The ideal candidate is a creative and structured thinker, a self-starter, and a results driven collaborator who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You will partner with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Industry leaders to craft and execute growth strategies that resonate with customers.

This is a senior and highly visible role that is responsible for keeping a pulse on the business, providing insight-based guidance, and influencing across the company to achieve business goals.

Responsibilities

• Influence and implement growth plans with Product, Marketing, and Sales teams to include successful GTM approaches for new products and platform capabilities.
• Develop strategic GTM plan (short and long term) for M&E. 
• Spearhead market research, analyze customer and industry data to inform product development and marketing strategies.
• Define monetization strategies for new offerings to maximize lifetime value.
• Lead quarterly business reviews and monthly performance analysis with actionable insights.
• Identify strategic opportunities and anticipate business challenges that may have significant impact on Autodesk’s M&E division growth and success.
• Create detailed business cases for new opportunities and investments, partnerships, and M&A. 
• Build executive-ready strategy briefs, analyses, and recommendations that inform prioritization and resource allocation.

• Collaborate with peers in the Industry Strategy team to shape the M&E Strategy and propel initiatives across vertical industries. 
• Develop relationships with partners, including executives, customers, partners, and industry associations.

Minimum Qualifications

• 12+ years of total related work experience in strategy, management consulting, offerings, and business development including 5+ years in leadership roles
• MBA or comparable advanced degree in Business, Strategy, or a related field
• Strategy or management consulting experience (i.e. top-tier firm or equivalent strategic role)

• Experience and understanding of SaaS products, platforms, and AI business models, pricing, and offerings.
• Experience presenting to executives and engaging customers, partners, and industry leaders. 
• Expert proficiency with building compelling presentations, crafting executive-level visuals, and performing advanced data analysis
• Advanced research, analytical, and problem-solving skills with ability to distill insights into actionable strategy
• Travel 20% including internationally

The Ideal candidate

• Exceptional business and financial acumen with a track record of solving complex customer and industry problems. 

• Proven ability to lead and influence as part of a matrixed and geographically dispersed global organization.
• Outstanding communication skills; able to convey complex concepts into concise, compelling stories for executives and customers.
• Anticipate business challenges that could have significant impact on the business.
• Passion for technology with deep knowledge of software

About Autodesk

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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!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $160,000 and $286,770. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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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