Director, Marketing AI Orchestration

Autodesk, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 151,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk, Inc. is seeking a Director of Marketing AI Orchestration to design and ship an AI orchestration layer that powers Worldwide Marketing.

You will architect a platform to coordinate agents, models, and workflows, determine autonomy levels, and steward a measurable uplift in marketing effectiveness. The role requires 10+ years in platform engineering/AI-driven marketing tech, strong architectural judgment, and proven executive communication, with ownership of budgets and cross-functional

Qualifications

• 10+ years across platform engineering, AI/data product, or marketing technology.
• Hands-on fluency with modern AI: agents, RAG, evals, orchestration frameworks, model selection, and MLOps.
• Experience landing technical capability inside a non-technical organization.
• Strong product sense and architectural judgment.
• Excellent executive communication; able to explain arch and business case to ELT.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the AI orchestration platform for marketing.
• Define what runs autonomously vs human-in-the-loop.
• Own capability roadmap and sequence builds by impact.
• Make build/buy/partner calls and own the budget.
• Embed the layer into workflows across all WWM functions.
• Drive adoption and measure impact with defined metrics.
• Governance, guardrails for safety, privacy, IP, responsible AI.
• Represent marketing in Autodesk's enterprise AI roadmap.

Skills

Platform engineering

AI/ML Ops

Marketing technology

Executive communication

Tools

AI orchestration frameworks

Job description

Job Requisition ID # 26WD100176 Position Overview Marketing's effectiveness is increasingly determined by the systems behind it — the layer that orchestrates AI agents, the data they reason over, and the workflows of every marketing team. Autodesk is investing to build that capability for Worldwide Marketing, and this role leads it. The Director, Marketing AI Orchestration is responsible for designing and building the AI orchestration layer that makes Worldwide Marketing (WWM) measurably more effective — and, over time, the data and AI substrate that sits beneath it. This is the connective tissue between AI capabilities, marketing data, our martech stack, and the work of every WWM function — and the foundation those capabilities run on. This is a builder role. We're hiring a platform builder who understands marketing, not a marketer who is curious about AI. Success is shipped capability that drives measurable lift in marketing effectiveness — speed, quality, scale, and revenue. The job to be done is to architect and ship the AI orchestration layer, drive adoption across WWM functions, and establish the measurement framework.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the platform that orchestrates AI agents, models, knowledge, and workflows across marketing.
• Define what runs autonomously, what is human-in-the-loop, and what stays human-led.
• Capability roadmap.
• Sequence what gets built based on impact to marketing effectiveness.
• Make build / buy / partner calls.
• Own the budget.
• Cross‑function integration.
• Embed the layer into the workflows of every WWM function — Brand & Creative, Growth & Partner Marketing, Industry Portfolio Emerging Business Marketing, Digital Ecommerce, Acquisition & Performance Marketing, Education, Communications, and the new Small Business team.
• Adoption is engineered as part of the build, not bolted on after.
• Measure.
• Define and report the metrics that prove the layer is making marketing more effective.
• Own the case for continued investment.
• Governance and trust.
• Build guardrails for brand safety, data privacy, IP, and responsible AI into the platform — as enforced behaviors in the system, not as policy documents.
• Partnerships.
• Represent marketing's interests in Autodesk's enterprise AI roadmap.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years across platform engineering, AI/data product, or marketing technology — with at least one tour building and shipping a platform that other teams now depend on day-to-day.
• Deep, hands-on fluency with modern AI: agents, RAG, evals, orchestration frameworks, model selection, and MLOps. Has built, not just bought.
• Track record landing technical capability inside a non-technical organization. Adoption is something you engineer for, not hope for.
• Strong product sense and architectural judgment.
• Ships.
• Excellent executive communication. Can walk an ELT audience through the architecture and the business case in the same meeting.
• Bias toward shipped capability and measured impact over decks, frameworks, and pilots.
• Track record building agentic systems or AI-native platforms in a marketing, sales, or customer-facing context.

The Ideal Candidate

What success looks like in 12 months The first production version of the orchestration layer is shipped and in daily use across multiple WWM functions A measurable lift on marketing effectiveness, defined upfront with the CMO staff and reported quarterly to the WWM Extended Leadership Team Three or more high-impact, cross-functional workflows running through the layer with proven business impact

Learn More About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made. We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world. When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $151,000 and $271,040. 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

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made. We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world. When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!