Senior User Experience Design Manager, Platform Data

Autodesk; Toronto; On-site; CAD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading software company in Toronto is seeking a Senior User Experience Design Manager to lead the AEC Design Data Platform team. This role focuses on innovative AEC data management, fostering collaboration, and delivering customer-centric experiences. Candidates should have extensive design experience and a passion for the AEC industry, along with team leadership skills. This position offers competitive compensation and the opportunity to impact Autodesk’s future products.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of related professional design experience.
• 4+ years of managing a design team with various user experience disciplines.
• A passion for data and understanding of AEC technology.
• Ability to communicate strategy concisely to stakeholders.
• Experience leading design teams in a collaborative environment.
• Strong technical understanding to nurture team members.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a holistic vision for AEC/BIM data.
• Develop partnerships with product management and engineering.
• Provide mentorship for user experience design professionals.
• Promote rapid iteration based on customer insights.
• Manage cross-functional projects and stakeholders.
• Stay informed on emerging technologies to enhance customer experience.

Skills

Leadership

Design thinking

Collaboration

Data management

Technical understanding

Job description

Overview

Job Requisition ID 25WD91561

We seek an experienced and results-driven Experience Design Leader who inspires great work, nurtures talent, and can bring people together in the creation and evolution of best-in-class experiences that customers love. The role requires a strategic mindset, proven leadership experience, and a passion for promoting design thinking to drive alignment, innovation, and contribution to product strategy.

We are seeking a Senior User Experience Design Manager, Platform Data to join our Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Design Data Platform team and advance our mission to reimagine the way customers capture, utilize, and exchange BIM data. In this role you’ll partner with teams for Revit, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Autodesk Platform Services, Autodesk Construction Solutions, and Forma to introduce new data workflows for customers. You’ll lead a team focused on defining the experience of how AEC data is stored and exchanged between teams, companies, and applications and foster the creation of the data infrastructure on which Autodesk’s future AEC products will be built.

To ensure success, you will be expected to work collaboratively and independently, locally and globally. You understand how to facilitate the balance between tactical and strategic design priorities. You have solid negotiation and consensus building abilities needed to gain cross discipline leadership alignment. If you are a strategic thinker with a passion for technology and a deep understanding of the AEC industry, we would love to hear from you.

We are open to candidates based in the United States and Canada, Eastern Time Zone preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define, champion, and execute a holistic vision and strategy for AEC/BIM data that powers Autodesk’s AEC portfolio, advocating for customer-centric and AI driven/Agentic experiences that cross hardware and platform boundaries

• Develop strong partnerships with product management, engineering, and other design disciplines ensuring a frictionless development process and high-quality outcomes aligned to business strategy

• Provide coaching, mentorship and career stewardship for a team of user experience design professionals including interaction design, design architecture, content (learning) experience, analytics, etc

• Promote a culture of rapid iteration based on insights gleaned from customer research and data analytics to inform design decisions and continuous improvement

• Develop high-performing teams on sizeable cross-functional and cross-organizational projects while managing stakeholders, risk, and uncertainty setting a high bar for design quality

• Be a thought leader, staying informed of emerging technologies and trends, to ensure alignment across Autodesk to deliver a cohesive and industry leading customer experience

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of related professional design experience

• 4+ years of managing a design team with a variety of user experience disciplines

• A passion for data, an understanding of the AEC industry technology, and a point of view on customer challenges related to AEC data management

• Mastery of taking very complex ideas and conveying them in a concise and impactful manner to effectively communicate strategy and vision to both executive and customer stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to lead design teams in a fast-paced, matrixed, collaborative environment.

• Anticipate the changing demands for UX skills and poses as strong technical understanding to nurture your team members and select the best people for our future success

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About Autodesk

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Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $160,500 and $259,600. 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

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