Autodesk · 22 hours ago
Principal User Experience Designer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$133K/yr - $216K/yr
8+ years expAutodesk is a leading software company that enables innovators to turn their ideas into reality. The Principal User Experience Designer will drive high-quality, journey-centric experiences across products and teams, focusing on shaping critical customer success experiences and leading complex initiatives through strategic design.
3D TechnologyArchitectureConstructionManufacturingSoftware Engineering
Responsibilities
Lead vision and strategy for complex, journey-driven systems and workflows, ensuring solutions scale across products, platforms, and services
Shape cross-functional roadmaps by synthesizing research, customer needs, and business objectives into clear, actionable design strategies
Independently frame ambiguous problems and drive complex initiatives from definition through delivery, navigating tradeoffs and incomplete information
Partner closely with product, engineering, research, and content to deliver cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences
Raise the bar for design quality across interaction, usability, and visual craft, influencing standards beyond immediate project teams
Mentor and coach designers across teams, elevating craft, systems thinking, and strategic judgment at a program or organizational level
Explore and apply AI-driven workflows and emerging technologies to improve both the design process and customer experience
Communicate complex ideas clearly to senior stakeholders, contributing to shared understanding, alignment, and design best practices across the organization
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience designing and delivering digital experiences within complex, multi-product ecosystems
Deep expertise in systems design, interaction design, and information architecture, applied to large-scale products
Demonstrated ability to shape product direction and organizational alignment through design-led strategy
Exceptional design judgment grounded in strong principles, customer insight, and business context
Proven ability to lead through influence in highly cross-functional environments, including with senior stakeholders
Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, end-to-end experience design, and sustained impact across multiple teams or initiatives
Experience mentoring designers and raising the quality bar across teams or programs
Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where problems and constraints are often ill-defined
Curiosity and adaptability, with experience exploring or integrating AI-enabled tools and workflows into design practice
Preferred
Experience designing post-purchase or lifecycle experiences focused on adoption, retention, and customer success
Experience working on platform, horizontal, or shared capabilities that span multiple products or teams
Proven ability to operate effectively in environments with distributed ownership and competing priorities
Experience leading complex initiatives through influence rather than direct authority
Experience designing AI-enabled or data-driven experiences, including considerations of trust and user control
Comfort partnering with product and analytics teams to define success metrics and evaluate impact
Experience designing for B2B, enterprise, or technically complex domains
Benefits
Health and financial benefits
Time away
Everyday wellness
Annual cash bonuses
Commissions for sales roles
Stock grants
Comprehensive benefits package
Company
Autodesk
Autodesk develops 3D design software for use in the architecture, engineering, construction, and media industries.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.5BKey Investors
CitibankOK Blockchain Capital
2025-07-01Acquired
2025-05-08Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2020-08-25Seed
Leadership Team
Andrew Anagnost
President and Chief Executive Officer
Janesh Moorjani
CFO
Recent News
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