AI Strategy & Benchmarking Lead

Autodesk; Toronto; On-site; CAD 129,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a strategic leader to oversee AI benchmarking efforts that connect capability with business value in design and manufacturing. This role shapes what gets measured, how results inform product and investment decisions, and how leadership views capability and competitive position.

You will translate benchmark findings into actionable guidance for research, product teams, and executives, guiding ROI discussions and investment priorities across Autodesk.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: 7+ years across strategy consulting, corporate or business strategy, technical product management, AI strategy, applied research, competitive intelligence, or related roles.
• Evaluation fluency - you can interrogate an evaluation result, challenge the metric, and determine whether a benchmark supports the conclusion.
• Business translation - you can take a change in capability and work through what it means for a workflow, a customer, a competitor, and ultimately a business decision.
• Structured problem solving - you are comfortable taking an ambiguous question, breaking it into the right components, working with incomplete evidence, and developing a defensible point of view.
• Movement between technical and business contexts - you can work credibly with researchers and engineers, then translate the relevant implications for executives without losing the substance.
• Momentum - you bring a working rhythm that others can plan around, and you help shorten the distance between a question being raised and an answer being available.
• Track record of influencing research, product, or investment priorities without direct authority.
• Strong analytical judgment and clear, concise executive communication.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Own and keep current how we prioritize what gets benchmarked, weighing workflow value, strategic importance, and competitive relevance.
• Map benchmark priorities to Industry Cloud problem areas and judge what level of evidence each question requires.
• Define the comparison set evaluated against those priorities, covering Autodesk and external alternatives.
• Collaborate on evolution of relevant human metrics and comparisons.
• Turn benchmark results into clear read-outs on Autodesk capability relative to frontier models, competitor technology, and industry baselines, including for the C-suite.
• Evolve the channels and cadence through which we report capability and competitive position.
• Keep capability questions moving to answers on a timeline that matches the decisions they support, including work that depends on teams you do not manage.
• Partner closely with the technical benchmarking team, which owns task curation and evaluation, to shape what gets measured next.

Job description

Autodesk is seeking a strategic leader to oversee AI benchmarking efforts that connect capability with business value in design and manufacturing. This role shapes what gets measured, how results inform product and investment decisions, and how leadership views capability and competitive position.

You will translate benchmark findings into actionable guidance for research, product teams, and executives, guiding ROI discussions and investment priorities across Autodesk.