Director of Operations—Emerging Technologies Partner

Autodesk; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 163,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk seeks a Director, Operations Business Partner for its Emerging Technologies group. This role embeds with senior Sales leadership, owning end-to-end operational outcomes and driving cross-functional resolution across Revenue Operations, Marketing, Customer Success, IT, and Finance.

You’ll diagnose gaps, build patterns, and champion data-driven change at the field level. You will shape planning, policies, and prioritization, ensuring seamless execution of key sales motions and enterprise

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Business Operations, or a related business partner role at an enterprise technology company.
• Direct experience supporting VP and SVP-level Sales leaders in an embedded, field-facing capacity.
• Proficiency with Salesforce and sales and operational tooling; comfortable with data to assess numbers.

Responsibilities

• Get into the details of how the Emerging Technologies business operates — understand the sales process, execution gaps, and friction points at ground level.
• Diagnose operational problems yourself: talk to the field, form a clear point of view, and drive toward a solution before escalating or engaging others.
• Identify patterns across field conversations, business performance, and stakeholder input to isolate systemic issues — and act on them, not just report them.
• Reframe ambiguous or misdiagnosed problems into clear, solvable questions; get senior stakeholders aligned and moving toward resolution.
• Own operational issues end-to-end — do the work yourself where you can, pull in the right teams where you need to, but never hand off accountability for the outcome; interface with Revenue Operations, Marketing, Customer Success, IT, and Finance
• Build and run the operational rhythms that keep the Emerging Technologies business on track: status reviews, escalation loops, issue tracking, and field feedback channels
• Build the business case for what needs to change — pressure-test the logic, align stakeholders across functions, and present a clear recommendation
• Push back on field requests that are not enterprise-aligned; prioritize and decide what to address
• Represent the Emerging Technologies field perspective in annual planning, segmentation design, coverage model changes, and policy development
• Identify and synthesize patterns from the field that should reshape Revenue Operations programs
• Prepare and deliver operational context for leadership reviews — own the narrative, not just the slides

Skills

Revenue Operations

Sales Operations

Business Operations

Problem-solving

Salesforce

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Autodesk seeks a Director, Operations Business Partner for its Emerging Technologies group. This role embeds with senior Sales leadership, owning end-to-end operational outcomes and driving cross-functional resolution across Revenue Operations, Marketing, Customer Success, IT, and Finance.

You’ll diagnose gaps, build patterns, and champion data-driven change at the field level. You will shape planning, policies, and prioritization, ensuring seamless execution of key sales motions and enterprise