Product Manager - Automation

PowerToFly; Remote; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading software company in Germany is seeking a Product Manager to lead automation capabilities within Forma Design. In this role, you will define and evolve an automation framework to enhance design workflows. Key responsibilities include leading product discovery, translating insights into actionable priorities, and ensuring seamless collaboration between design and engineering teams. Ideal candidates will have 3-7 years in product management, emphasizing customer discovery and problem framing.

Leistungen

Health/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Work-Life Balance

Paid Volunteer Time Off

6 Week Paid Sabbatical Every 4 Years

Employee Resource Groups

Week of Rest at Year's End

Qualifikationen

• 3-7 years of experience in product management or a related role.
• Strong skills in customer discovery and problem framing.
• Experience with Design and Engineering teams.

Aufgaben

• Lead automation product discovery and delivery.
• Translate insights into actionable product priorities.
• Define goals and success metrics for product area.

Kenntnisse

Customer discovery

Problem framing

Experimentation

Communication skills

Collaboration

Jobbeschreibung

Job Requisition ID # 25WD94385

Positin Overview

Forma Design is evolving beyond interactive exploration toward a platform where knowledge, intent, and repeatable logic can be embedded directly into design workflows. As teams face increasing pressure to move faster, standardize outcomes, and reuse proven solutions, automation becomes a critical capability. Not as isolated scripts or one-off tools, but as a productized framework that allows design intelligence to scale across teams, projects, and organizations.

We are looking for a Product Manager to lead Forma’s automation capabilities. The core responsibility of this role is to define and evolveageometric/parametricautomation framework that makes it possible to build, reuse, customize, and distribute automation content. This includes first-party automations, reuse of existing assets such as Revit families, configurable automation content tailored to specific needs, and the foundations for a broader ecosystem where others can contribute and extend automation over time.

You will work as part of a dedicated product team within Forma Design, partnering closely with Engineering and Design in an empowered product triad.

Together, you will discover,validate, and deliver automation capabilities that reduce manual work, increase consistency, and allow best practices, standards, and domain knowledge to be embedded directly into design workflows.

You will define and evolve Forma’sdesignautomation framework, with a clear focus on enabling customizable, reusable automation contentto ensure that customers can explore building layouts faster and with higher precision.

This role is about turningdesignautomationsinto a first-classproductcapability. Automations are created as reusable, configurable building blocks that can be applied and adapted across different projects andcontexts,without requiring users to write code or understand the underlying implementation.

Your work will enable automations that generate,modify, orvalidatedesign elements, support reuse of existing assets such as Revit families, and allow manufacturing or system constraints to be embedded into automation content early.

Over time, this framework should support an ecosystem where automation content can be created, customized, and extended by both Autodesk and third parties, enabling repetitive design and proven solutions to scale consistently across projects.

Responsibilities

Product Discovery

• Lead discovery with a strong focus onautomationworkflows
• Work directly witharchitectsandother building professionalsto understand howautomations can be created,configuredand reused
• Explore where current tools fall short and where cloud-nativeautomationworkflows can create new value
• Validate problems and solutions through interviews, prototypes, experiments, and data, ensuring learning continuously informs what the team builds next

Product Delivery

• Translate validated insights into clear priorities and actionable direction for theproduct team
• Partner closely with Design and Engineering to deliver high-qualitysolutions iteratively
• Maintain a strong connection between discovery and delivery so that learning drives execution

Product Strategy and Direction

• Contribute to and execute the Site Design product strategy within Forma Design, with a focus on expanding adoption among engineers
• Ensure new capabilities balance engineering rigor with the flexibilityrequiredinearly-stagedesign, andfit coherently within Forma’s broader platform strategy

Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration

• Work closely with adjacent Forma teams to ensure Automationsintegrates naturally intoend to endworkflows
• Make dependencies visible and manageable. Drive alignment around shared intent models and consistent system behavior across the platform

Goals and Measurement

• Define clear, outcome-oriented goals for your area of responsibility
• Establish meaningful success metrics related to engineer adoption, engagement, workflow impact, and cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Track progress using both qualitative and quantitative insight and adjust direction as needed

Decision Ownership

• Own product decisions within the squad’s scope
• Maketrade-ffsexplicit, incorporate input from stakeholders, and stand behind the decisions that shape product direction and value delivery
• Take accountability for outcomes, not just output

Communication and Representation

• Act as the primary representative for the product team incross teamforums and stakeholder discussions
• Communicate progress, challenges, and learnings with clarity and transparency
• Share insights broadly to support alignment and continuous improvement across the product area

Minimum Qualifications

• 3-7 years of experience in product management or a closely related role in B2B or SaaS products
• Strong skills in customer discovery, problem framing, and experimentation
• Experience working closely with Design and Engineering in empowered product teams
• Comfortoperatingin ambiguity and building products from the ground up
• Ability to think in systems, platforms, and AI enabled workflows
• Strong communicationand collaboration skills
• Interest in AEC workflows,early stagedesign, and decision making under constraints
• Experience withbuilding design and design automationsis a plus but notrequired

This is a chance to make automation a core product capability and use it to raise the baseline of how cities are designed. By enabling design logic, standards, and best practices to be reused and scaled, you help teams deliver higher-quality outcomes more consistently. You will shape a framework that embeds repeatable, customizable workflows directly into design processes, reducing repetitive work and making proven solutions easier to apply across projects,ultimately supportingmore efficient, sustainable, and predictable urban development.

Ready to build something that does not exist yet, but should?

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