Visual Designer, Experience Design

Autodesk; Toronto; On-site; CAD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Visual Product Designer in Toronto, Canada, to contribute to innovative product design aimed at creating sustainable cities. The role involves working collaboratively with cross-functional teams to translate complex user needs into intuitive design concepts.

The successful candidate will integrate into a distributed team, where excellent communication and storytelling skills are essential. If you are passionate about design and have experience in creating efficient user interfaces, we invite you to apply.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience as Visual Product Designer with an understanding of intuitive product functionality.
• Ability to simplify complex problems into valuable solutions for users.
• Excellent storytelling skills to convey design concepts effectively.

Responsibilities

• Follow user needs and achieve insight into product area.
• Translate user needs into design concepts in collaboration with teams.
• Design user interfaces focusing on clarity and aesthetics.

Skills

Visual Product Design

User Interface Design

Communication Skills

Storytelling Skills

Job description

Overview

We operate as a fundamentally agile organization. Our teams have the autonomy needed to innovate at speed while staying aligned. We empower our teams to determine how to develop their solutions by supporting decision-making with a bottom-up approach. We are organized in cross-functional teams, with software and machine-learning engineers collaborating with product managers and designers in each team. In our organization, we strongly believe in servant leadership and team accountability. We also see great strengths in allowing you to define how you work to be most successful. Our teams collaborate across time zones and continents.

Responsibilities

• Closely follow the user needs and achieve deep insight and ownership of the product area.
• Translating complex user needs into design concepts in close collaboration with both local and global product teams consisting of designers, software engineers, architects, data scientists, etc.
• Work with the team to design and evaluate alternative solutions to choose the best approach to solve user needs, while also considering technical constraints and the anticipated value to customers.
• Put your craftsmanship to work and design a beautiful product experience through flows, interactions and functional user interfaces for a product aiming to help build sustainable and better cities to live in.
• Tackling visualization challenges in information dense interfaces and providing focus and visual clarity to information hierarchy when there is a lot going on.
• Contribute to evolving and growing our design language, design systems and component libraries, whilst maintaining a consistent visual aesthetic.
• Contribute to our overall strategy and decision-making about product direction.
• Participate in user research like interviews and usability testing to validate designs and make iterative improvements.
• Contribute to way of working and design processes in and between teams.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience as Visual Product Designer. A solid understanding of designing intuitive product functionality, user interfaces, and navigation.
• Great at handling complexity and reducing complex problems down to valuable and efficient solutions for end users.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, and an ability to effectively convey conceptual design work both within and outside of your product team.
• Comfortable working autonomously on a distributed team and collaborating remotely.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working at an enterprise software company that is building SaaS products.
• Interest in architecture and urban design.

Diversity & Belonging

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