Description
Autodesk is seeking a Principal Product Designer to define the experience direction for a strategic area within Autodesk Forma, our SaaS platform for construction management.
In this role, you will develop a deep understanding of the construction domain and use it to shape product strategy, influence roadmap decisions, and create a clear experience vision that extends beyond a single feature or team.
Responsibilities:
- Define the experience strategy and long-term design direction for a strategic product area, connecting it to broader customer journeys and the Autodesk Forma platform.
- Develop deep domain expertise and translate customer, product, business, and technology insights into clear priorities, experience principles, and strategic recommendations.
- Partner with senior Product and Engineering leaders to shape product strategy, influence roadmap decisions, and guide complex prioritization and investment trade-offs.
- Identify and lead opportunities that span multiple products, workflows, or teams, building alignment around a cohesive end-to-end customer experience.
- Create and evolve experience frameworks, workflow models, interaction patterns, and design-system approaches that can scale beyond a single product team.
- Shape the direction of AI-powered experiences, ensuring emerging capabilities deliver meaningful customer value and are understandable, responsible, and trustworthy.
- Lead ambiguous, high-impact initiatives with a high degree of autonomy, balancing long-term strategic outcomes with multiple concurrent priorities.
- Use exceptional hands-on design and prototyping skills to explore strategic opportunities, communicate direction, and establish a high standard for product quality.
- Lead design reviews, planning conversations, and cross-functional forums that strengthen decisions, resolve ambiguity, and create alignment among diverse stakeholders.
- Extend the impact of Design through mentoring, thoughtful critique, and collaboration with designers across global teams.
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional product design experience, including work on complex SaaS, enterprise, or platform products.
- A portfolio demonstrating strong strategic thinking, systems thinking, exceptional design craft, and impact across complex product experiences.
- Proven experience defining experience vision and product direction,not only delivering against an established roadmap.
- Demonstrated ability to influence product strategy and senior stakeholder decisions without formal authority.
- Experience connecting workflows, customer journeys, or systems across multiple products or teams.
- Experience creating scalable experience frameworks, interaction patterns, or design-system solutions.
- Experience designing AI-enabled products or applying human-centered design principles to AI-assisted workflows.
- Ability to independently lead multiple complex initiatives while maintaining strategic focus and a high quality bar.
- Excellent communication, storytelling, facilitation, and collaboration skills, including experience working across distributed global teams.
- Advanced proficiency with Figma, prototyping tools, and modern product design workflows.
Benefits:
- Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package.
- Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location.
- In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.