Principal User Experience Designer

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Position Overview

Autodesk’s Platform Services and Enabling Technologies Experience Design team creates experiences for the platform capabilities that support all Autodesk products. We are seeking a Principal Experience Designer to focus on our Access ecosystem – helping our customers sign in and manage product and project access for all of our products. With our large and varied customer base, there is no one-size-fits-all model. You’ll be working daily with a multi-disciplinary team engaged in the hard work of changing not just an application, but the way the whole company structures its interactions with customers. You will work on strategic initiatives to create cohesive and scalable customer experiences that can be leveraged across our 100+ products serving multiple industries where people design, create, and build the future.

We care about the thoughtful design of frameworks, systems, workflows, and UI components that can be utilized by teams across the organization.

For consideration, candidates must include both a resume and portfolio (if link please include password) when applying.

Responsibilities

• Lead experience design initiatives and help set strategy by evaluating and identifying the intersection of business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities, informed by qualitative and quantitative insights

• Provide systems thinking through conception and visualization how different systems (products, platforms) work and fit together — and create frameworks for these

• Partner closely with product management and engineering to translate our goals into unique, cohesive, scalable platform experiences

• Plan and facilitate design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges

• Visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity, from high-level wireframes or mock-ups to conceptual presentations to highly technical documents and diagrams

• Plan and conduct customer research activities and quantitative testing throughout the project lifecycle, including collaborative sessions with customers and development partners to validate designs and make iterative improvements

• Demonstrate thought leadership by engaging with designers throughout the company and beyond to mentor and share best design principles and practices and promote collaboration

• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure Autodesk remains innovative and competitive beyond our current capabilities

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of related professional user experience design and customer research experience

• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and stakeholder alignment skills

• Experience working in agile, cross-functional product teams

• Strong applied expertise in leveraging AI-assisted development and writing tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to accelerate ideation, prototyping, implementation, and delivery outcomes

• Strong problem-solving ability, adaptability, and attention to detail in fast-moving environments

• Deep commitment to user-centered design and balancing user and business needs; Expert in UI and human-centered design principles, with extensive knowledge and experience applying various techniques throughout the design process

• Experience working in agile, cross-functional product teams

• Strong applied expertise in leveraging AI-assisted development and writing tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) to accelerate ideation, prototyping, implementation, and delivery outcomes

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

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!

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 $130,000 and $232,320. 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.

Diversity & Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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