Principal Experience Designer

Job Requisition ID #

26WD100698

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. You will

connect customer journeys across product areas, identify opportunities for

greater consistency and value, and help teams navigate complex customer,

business, and technical trade-offs.

You will partner with senior leaders across Product Management, Engineering,

Research, and Design to build alignment and guide high-impact decisions. You

will also contribute to strategic planning, establish experience principles and

reusable frameworks, and raise the quality of thinking and execution across a

globally distributed design organization.

Strong hands-on design craft remains essential. You will use customer

journeys, prototypes, interaction models, and detailed product solutions to

explore possibilities, make strategy tangible, and set a high standard for quality.

This is a highly visible individual-contributor role for a design leader who can

operate independently, influence across organizational boundaries, and help

shape the future of our Forma Construction tools.

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.Principal Product Designer1 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.Principal Product Designer2 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing products for construction, AECO, or another complex and domain-rich industry.
• Experience contributing to quarterly planning, portfolio prioritization, or other strategic product-planning processes.
• Experience mentoring experienced designers and raising design quality across multiple teams.
• Experience establishing new ways of working, decision-making frameworks, or design practices adopted across an organization.
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