Description
We are seeking a Principal People Insights Partner to join our People Insights & Solution Design (PI-SD) team. As a Principal People Insights Partner, you will work across multiple domains to inform Autodesk's people strategy and product and technology strategy. You will build and sustain trusted relationships with stakeholders, combine business context and evidence to build a shared understanding of problems, and provide decision-grade intelligence.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders to understand their context and deliver tailored solutions
- Combine business context and evidence to build a shared understanding of problems
- Scan across lifecycle topics for emerging questions and patterns
- Reframe broad or ambiguous requests into decision-focused evidence questions
- Activate the right capability for the problem at hand
- Apply working fluency in research methods to evaluate rigor and shape approach
- Coordinate delivery of outputs and iterate as evidence develops
- Interpret evidence in context and provide directional recommendations
- Influence the development of actionable KPIs
- Recognize when a point-in-time analytic need is becoming a durable product need
- Flag productization triggers and route qualified opportunities into Tech Product Manager intake
- Mentor other Insights Partners and researchers
- Help set standards for research design, data quality, and ethical handling of sensitive employee data
Minimum Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience using people or business data to inform decisions in ambiguous, cross-functional environments
- Experience engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leaders
- Track record of building durable relationships with business stakeholders
- Comfortable moving between big-picture strategic framing and technical or operational details
- Skilled in quantitative and qualitative analysis and data visualization
- Working fluency in research methods
- Comfort working directly with structured data
- Direct use of AI tools in research, analysis, and synthesis work
- Exposure to HR technology and vendor landscape
Preferred Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree in Business, Statistics, Human Resources, or a related field
- Experience in a people analytics or HR domain
- Experience distinguishing insight work from product work inside a technology-enabled organization