Principal Product Manager, AI-Driven People Platform

Autodesk, Inc.; Canada; On-site; CAD 125,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the PPL technology portfolio.

You will shape strategy and a roadmap for domains such as Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and AI-enabled products, coordinating with engineering, UX, and leadership to translate problems into measurable outcomes. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, including adoption and KPI definition, while ensuring alignment with Workday and other systems of record as infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience owning a product or platform from definition through delivery and operation.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for an assigned PPL domain portfolio.
• Own visibility across every tool, vendor, and contract in your domain and drive renewal, divestment, and consolidation decisions with business cases.
• Translate ambiguous employee and business problems into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own the experience and intelligence layer for your domain, keeping Workday and other systems of record as infrastructure while PPL owns the logic built on top of them.
• Partner with ESE engineering teams daily through build and delivery, acting as the accountable product voice from requirements through launch.
• Apply the vendor capture test to every AI capability in your domain: is it trained on Autodesk-owned data?
• Use AI directly in research, analysis, prioritization, and execution.
• Build trust and alignment across technical and business stakeholders, and drive decisions without direct authority.
• Drive adoption of what you build by transitioning stakeholders to a centralized model with trust.
• Define and own the KPIs for your domain and build dashboards to make performance visible.

Skills

Product management

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Workday

Job description

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the PPL technology portfolio.

You will shape strategy and a roadmap for domains such as Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, and AI-enabled products, coordinating with engineering, UX, and leadership to translate problems into measurable outcomes. You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, including adoption and KPI definition, while ensuring alignment with Workday and other systems of record as infrastructure.