Autodesk
Design and make software for architecture, engineering, construction, and entertainment industries.
Principal User Experience Designer
Design strategic, system-wide UX for post-purchase journey across Autodesk products.
Job Highlights
About the Role
• Lead vision and strategy for complex, journey-driven systems and workflows, ensuring scalability across products, platforms, and services. • Shape cross-functional roadmaps by synthesizing research, customer needs, and business objectives into actionable design strategies. • Independently frame ambiguous problems and drive initiatives from definition through delivery, managing trade-offs and incomplete information. • Partner closely with product, engineering, research, and content teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end customer experiences. • Raise the bar for design quality across interaction, usability, and visual craft, influencing standards beyond immediate teams. • Mentor and coach designers, elevating craft, systems thinking, and strategic judgment at program or organizational level. • Explore and apply AI-driven workflows and emerging technologies to improve design processes and customer experiences. • Communicate complex ideas clearly to senior stakeholders, contributing to shared understanding and alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸design strategy
- ▸roadmap planning
- ▸problem framing
- ▸cross-functional collaboration
- ▸ai workflows
- ▸design quality
What You Bring
The Principal UX Designer at Autodesk is a strategic, systems-level thinker who drives high-quality, journey-centric experiences across products and teams. Reporting to the Manager of Design, this role shapes critical customer-success experiences in the signed-in post-purchase journey, requiring deep expertise in systems and interaction design, cross-functional collaboration, and setting strategic direction. The position is based in North America with a preference for Seattle, Toronto, Portland, Denver, Boston, or Atlanta. Hybrid/remote work is preferred, but fully remote candidates are also considered. • 8+ years designing digital experiences within complex, multi-product ecosystems. • Deep expertise in systems design, interaction design, and information architecture for large-scale products. • Proven ability to shape product direction through design-led strategy and influence senior stakeholders. • Experience mentoring designers and raising quality across teams or programs. • Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and explore AI-enabled tools. • Design experience for post-purchase or lifecycle experiences focused on adoption, retention, and customer success. • Experience working on platform, horizontal, or shared capabilities spanning multiple products. • Ability to lead complex initiatives through influence rather than direct authority. • Experience designing AI-enabled or data-driven experiences with trust and user-control considerations. • Background in B2B, enterprise, or technically complex domains.
Requirements
- ▸8+ years
- ▸systems design
- ▸interaction design
- ▸ai tools
- ▸mentoring
- ▸b2b
Benefits
Autodesk values a culture of curiosity, craft, clarity, and momentum, and offers a competitive compensation package including a base salary of $133,300–$215,600, bonuses, stock grants and comprehensive benefits.
Work Environment
Hybrid