Principal Experience Designer

Job Requisition ID #
- 22WD64538

Position Overview

Reporting to a Manager of Experience Design, the Principal Experience Designer will work on strategic initiatives which create cohesive and scalable customer value. The focus of this role will be on our platform delivery experiences.

The Platform Services and Emerging Technologies (PSET) organization enables Autodesk product teams and Autodesk customers to accelerate outcomes by providing a trusted platform of shared and enabling capabilities. PSET XD teams partner with Product Management and Engineering teams to deliver front end web-based experiences, APIs, services, and infrastructure that our customers and developers use to access, manage, and extend the capabilities of Autodesk’s design and make software. The Experience Design (XD) team within PSET includes interaction design, visual design, research, and content strategy.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead experience design initiatives and help set strategy by evaluating and identifying the intersection of business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities
- Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation
- Construct compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, presentations, etc.) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions to gain strategic alignment and encourage innovation within and across the organization
- Use information derived from analytics and customer interactions to help inform business and design decisions
- Plan and facilitate design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges
- Facilitate and participate in customer interaction and research in many forms, from interviews to usability testing, to validate designs and make iterative improvements
- Demonstrate thought leadership by engaging with designers throughout the company and beyond to share best practices and promote collaboration

Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of related professional experience in UX design
- Ability to 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
- Excellent visual and verbal communication skills with the ability to distill complex ideas, and large amounts of data and viewpoints, to their essence
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with development teams and product managers to deliver usable and desired value to customers
- Ability to present designs to a wide range of audiences, including software development, product managers, quality assurance, learning content development, marketing, and sales
- Experience with designing and conducting customer research using various methods, including interviewing, contextual inquiry, usability testing, etc
- Effective collaboration with multi-disciplinary global Agile teams
- Up-to-date expertise in human-centred design best practices

Preferred Qualifications
- BA/BS or Graduate degree in HCI, New Media Design, Computer Science, related fields, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing for enterprise software, SaaS, cloud, and multi-channel experiences
- Experience with Agile software design methods
- Experience with Autodesk or comparable competitive products
- Experience mentoring other UX designers

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