Experience Design Architect

Autodesk; Remote; CAD 155,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading design software company is seeking an Experience Design Architect to lead strategy and architecture for AI-driven workflows in Toronto. This role involves designing understandable AI experiences, ensuring usability, and mentoring designers. Candidates should have 10+ years in user experience design, with a strong focus on AI systems. The position offers competitive compensation and opportunities to impact the industry widely.

Benefits

Health and financial benefits

Time-off policies

Wellness programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in user experience, product, interaction, or service design.
• Proven experience with design of AI-powered functionality.
• Strong understanding of AI system behavior impact on users.

Responsibilities

• Define experience strategy and information architecture for AI-powered capabilities.
• Design information models that make AI behavior understandable.
• Lead the design of onboarding and learning experiences.

Skills

User experience

Interaction design

Service design

Communication

Facilitation

Job description

Position Overview

As an Experience Design Architect on the Experience Design Architecture team supporting Autodesk Fusion, you will support experience strategy and architecture for AI-driven workflows and agent-based systems. This role exists to bring clarity, coherence, and usability to complex AI experiences; especially where today those experiences feel fragmented or inconsistent.

Reporting to the Director of Experience Architecture on the Autodesk Fusion team, you’ll partner closely with product management, engineering, and AI specialists to ensure AI capabilities are understandable, usable, and valuable to customers in the context of professional end-to-end design and manufacturing workflows. This role is intentionally focused: AI experience architecture is your primary job, not an area to grow into.

This is an opportunity to do strategic work with industry-wide impact and directly improve how professionals design and make products.

Considering candidates based in San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, or Toronto, with flexibility across the U.S. and Canada.

To be considered, you must include your resume and portfolio with password/access when applying.

Responsibilities

• Define experience strategy and information architecture for AI-powered capabilities: including assistants, agent-based workflows, and intelligent automation.
• Design information models, system hierarchies, and mental models that make AI behavior understandable and navigable.
• Establish scalable patterns for organizing, naming, surfacing, and sequencing AI-driven information and actions.
• Lead the design of onboarding and learning experiences that explain system capabilities, constraints, and outcomes.
• Identify fragmentation and inconsistency across AI experiences and drive architectural alignment.
• Use prototypes, models, and scenarios to test and communicate experience and architecture decisions.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and applied AI teams to align system architecture and user-facing structures.
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions to align on AI interaction principles, agent behavior, and experience standards.
• Ensure experience quality through ongoing engagement in reviews and delivery cycles, with a focus on usability, clarity, and customer confidence.
• Mentor designers and help raise organizational fluency around designing effective AI experiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in user experience, product, interaction, or service design or related discipline; including experience defining information architecture for complex systems.
• Proven experience with design of AI-powered product functionality: such as AI assistants, agent-based workflows, and/or intelligent systems.
• Strong understanding of how AI system behavior impacts user mental models, trust, and adoption.
• Track record of defining experience architecture and influencing multiple teams to align behind it.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex system behavior to diverse audiences, including executives.
• Deep experience applying user-centered design practices to ambiguous, technically complex problems.
• Strong facilitation skills and comfort leading cross functional decision making.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into clear, user-centered structures and flows.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working closely with applied AI, ML, or data science teams.
• Experience designing multi-agent or orchestration-based systems.
• Experience establishing AI related experience standards, principles, or design systems.
• Experience in complex professional software (CAD, manufacturing, engineering, or similar domains).

The Ideal Candidate

You think in systems and structures. You care about how interfaces look and behave as well as how the information behind them is organized, named, and revealed over time. You’ve designed AI or intelligent systems where information architecture was essential to making the experience usable, and you know how to balance flexibility with clarity.

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!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $155,800 and $251,900. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we’re building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging

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