AI Builder, Principal Product Manager

Autodesk; Toronto; On-site; CAD 142,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a product leader to join a small AI-native disrupt squad within Platform Services & Emerging Technologies. You will identify high-leverage opportunities, define what should exist, and demonstrate working proofs using AI, real systems, and rapid experiments.

You won't hand off requirements; you will shape direction across product, design, and engineering, building AI-assisted prototypes and demos, delivering measurable improvements that transform how the platform is

Qualifications

• 8+ years driving product direction in complex, technical environments.
• Acts with agency in ambiguous spaces and sets direction.
• Strong product judgment: prioritizes value across systems.
• Hands-on experience building AI-assisted prototypes or demos.
• Proven ability to operate across product, engineering and experience.
• Turns insights into tangible outcomes, not just decks.
• Synthesizes user needs, business context, and technical constraints.
• Influences stakeholders across teams without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Find seams, bottlenecks, and handoffs that hinder usability and identify high-value improvements.
• Define what should exist by framing fuzzy multi-system problems into clear directions.
• Question whether capabilities should be replaced or improved and use experiments to decide.
• Build working proofs with AI tools, prompts, and data to show real results.
• Package results as before/after proof points to drive change across teams.
• Translate proofs into direction for the platform's next evolution and a viable path.

Skills

Product leadership

Experimentation

AI prototyping

Cross-functional

Stakeholder influence

Ambiguity navigation

Direction setting

End-to-end

Job description

Position Overview

This is a role for a product leader who wants to fundamentally change how the platform works, and can prove it, not just pitch it. You will join a small, AI-native disrupt squad within Autodesk’s Platform Services & Emerging Technologies (PSET) organization, accountable for redefining how the platform is experienced, accessed, and built upon.

You won’t be handed a roadmap. You will identify high-leverage opportunities, define what should exist, and demonstrate a dramatically better way through working proofs, using AI, real systems, and rapid experimentation.

Your role is not to write requirements and hand them off. On this team, product thinking, experience design, and engineering are rethinking how to work as an AI native delivery team. As the product-minded AI Builder, you bring deep product thinking into the what and the why, and you stay close enough to the how that your direction is grounded in something real. In practice, that means building AI-assisted prototypes, shaping demos, and working directly with data yourself.

Your focus is not on managing backlogs or operating production systems. You are accountable for turning friction into opportunity and delivering working proofs that make a new approach credible and hard to dismiss.

Job Requisition ID #

26WD100466

Responsibilities

• Find the seams, bottlenecks, and handoffs that make the platform harder to use than it should be, and identify the few where a different approach creates outsized value for customers and the business
• Define what should exist, framing fuzzy, multi-system problems into a clear direction the team can build against
• Decide what to challenge: actively question whether existing capabilities should be replaced, simplified, or significantly improved, and use experimentation to settle it on evidence rather than opinion
• Prove it: partner with experience designers and developers, and get hands-on yourself with AI tools, prompts, and data, to build working proofs that show something actually works, not just that it could
• Package the results as clear "before vs after" proof points that make friction visible and the better approach undeniable, creating pull for change across teams
• Translate what the proofs reveal into direction: what the platform should become next, and a viable path to get there

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years driving product direction in complex, technical environments, with deep customer and business understanding and a strong track record of using experimentation to discover, validate, and evolve solutions
• Acts with agency in ambiguous spaces, setting direction and making progress before anyone hands them a plan
• Strong product judgment: consistently prioritizes what creates disproportionate value across systems, not just within a single feature or area
• Hands-on experience building AI-assisted prototypes or demos (prompt design, agentic workflows, tool integrations) to validate direction
• Proven ability to operate across product, engineering, and experience, shaping solutions end-to-end rather than handing off between functions
• Turns high-leverage problems and insight into tangible, working outcomes, whether prototypes or proofs, not just requirements, decks, or roadmaps
• Strong ability to synthesize user needs, business context, and technical constraints into clear, defensible direction
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams without relying on formal authority
• High learning velocity and comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving problem spaces

Preferred Qualifications

• Shipped 0→1 products or features, ideally in workflow-heavy enterprise products or greenfield SaaS
• Ability to structure product intent as an interface for agentic work, validated through hypothesis-driven, metrics-based iteration.
• Experience comparing multiple solution approaches and deciding based on outcomes, not opinions
• Familiarity with complex multi-system environments and navigate platform level changes required to achieve business outcomes

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About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $142,000 and $207,900. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.