Principal User Experience Designer, AEC Data (Canada)

Autodesk; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company located in Metro Vancouver is seeking a Principal User Experience Designer to craft innovative data workflows. This role involves evaluating customer needs and business requirements, developing compelling design artifacts, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Candidates should have over 8 years of UX design experience and possess a strong portfolio showcasing their previous work. The position offers a dynamic and collaborative environment with opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related professional user experience design and customer research experience.
• 4+ years designing complex B2B/technical platform experiences.
• Current portfolio of commercial UX project work.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities.
• Create compelling artifacts such as wireframes and prototypes.
• Lead customer research activities during planning and strategy.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance experience design impact.

Skills

User experience design

Customer research

Communication skills

Design thinking

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Autodesk products

BIM

Job description

Job Requisition ID #

25WD93275

25WD93275, Principal User Experience Designer, AEC Data (Canada)

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Position Overview

Do you pride yourself in crafting visionary user experiences for intricate data workflows? Are you obsessed with enabling customers to flow through complex tasks with high confidence? Do you enjoy evaluating user experiences to discover opportunities for simplification and optimization? If yes, you may be a good fit for the AEC Platform Data team.

Autodesk’s rapidly growing AEC Platform Data team is looking for a Principal Experience Designer to shape cohesive, scalable data experiences across our platform products. In this position, you will help integrate central data management experiences and patterns into products like Forma. You will work in partnership with business stakeholders, experience designers, content designers, product managers, developers, and customers to transform how users interact with and manage granular data in their projects.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities to support experience design strategy
• Create compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, prototypes, and documentation) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions
• Lead and participate in customer research activities during the planning, strategy development, and early design of solutions
• Evaluate existing experiences to discover opportunities for transformation and standardization
• Meet with customers and development partners to validate designs and make iterative improvements
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation
• Lead and design complex workshops, incorporating innovative facilitation techniques for maximum impact
• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate and enhance the ongoing impact of experience design within the AEC
• Drive successful implementation of the user experience design specifications in collaboration with development teams
• Use design thinking to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges
• Maintain familiarity with Autodesk software to ensure compatibility with capabilities and services shared across our portfolio

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of related professional user experience design and customer research experience
• 4+ years designing complex B2B/technical platform experiences
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Current portfolio of commercial UX project work
• Familiarity with Autodesk products, BIM, and the AEC project lifecycle
• Up-to-date expertise in human-centered design best practices
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, manage multiple tasks, and set priorities with direction and/or feedback from stakeholders and teammates
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas into their essence
• Demonstrated experience employing user testing methods and design critiques to drive the design process
• Comfortable in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders, can adjust to changing priorities
• High tolerance for ambiguity and competing priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in large, distributed, enterprise organizations
• Experience working with architecture and manufacturing products and services
• History designing highly technical user experiences (i.e. helping users integrate disparate systems, visualize complex relational information, and/or search and filter complex data)
• Some exposure or experience with software development, data science, or BIM management
• Experience in mentoring other UX designers

Apply

When applying you must include both your resume and an accessible portfolio with password if needed.