Principal User Experience Designer

Job Requisition ID #

25WD89316

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. 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.

This role will be the lead designer for strategic initiatives which serve all of Autodesk's product lines. You will be working with multiple teams in different organizations to ensure cohesive experiences across our ecosystem, sharing a common goal of customer-centricity, connected experiences across our products, and high quality of work. You will display a strategic mindset, critical thinking, and a thoughtful approach to organization, collaboration, and execution on behalf of the customer.

This role will have a particular focus on infrastructure systems that enable both internal and external developers to effectively build desktop and cloud services serving all of our customer segments. An understanding of APIs and the API experience for developers is required.

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Responsibilities

• Lead experience design initiatives and help set strategy by evaluating and identifying the intersection of business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities. Partner closely with product management and engineering to translate our goals into unique 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

• Demonstrated experience in leading cross-functional teams in problem definition and analysis, understanding customer workflows, creating prototypes and designs that solve customer problems

• Desire to work autonomously, own projects from end to end, and collaborate with globally distributed Agile teams

Minimum Qualifications

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

• Ability to build credibility, trust, and authority across a network of peers, stakeholders, and teammates

• Expert in UI and human-centered design principles, with extensive knowledge and experience applying various techniques throughout the design process

• Ability to customize or evolve design processes to fit project needs, including larger and more complex projects

• Capability to promote participation, listening, and alignment and broad engagement in meetings

• Experience in mentoring other UX designers

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