Principal Product Manager, PPL Technology

Autodesk; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 142,000 - 259,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for a People/Process domain portfolio, aligning with Workday infrastructure and driving cross-functional collaboration.

You will partner with engineering teams to translate problems into requirements, define KPIs, and build dashboards that reveal performance early and drive adoption across stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for a PPL domain portfolio, applying build versus buy principles and a six-dimension evaluation framework.
• Own visibility across tools, vendors, and contracts; drive renewal, divestment, and consolidation with business cases.
• Translate ambiguous employee and business problems into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own the experience and intelligence layer for your domain, with Workday as infrastructure while PPL owns the logic built on top of them.
• Partner with ESE engineering teams daily through build and delivery, serving as the accountable product voice from requirements through launch.
• Apply the vendor capture test to every AI capability: is it data Autodesk owns, or vendor-captured logic? Use AI in research and prioritization.
• Build trust and alignment across technical and business stakeholders; drive decisions without direct authority.
• Drive adoption of what you build, transitioning stakeholders to a centralized model with trust intact.
• Define and own the KPIs for your domain, connecting product metrics to the talent strategy and building dashboards and leading indicators.

Job description

Job Requisition ID # 26WD100184

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for an assigned PPL domain portfolio, for example Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Compensation & Rewards, Employee Support & Services, Workplace & Travel Experience, or PI-SD's AI-enabled products, applying build versus buy principles and the six-dimension evaluation framework used across the PPL portfolio
• Own visibility across every tool, vendor, and contract in your domain, and drive renewal, divestment, and consolidation decisions backed by business cases through the quarterly PPL leadership technology review
• Translate ambiguous employee and business problems into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Own the experience and intelligence layer for your domain, keeping Workday and other systems of record as infrastructure while PPL owns the logic built on top of them
• Partner with ESE engineering teams daily through build and delivery, acting as the accountable product voice from requirements through launch
• Apply the vendor capture test to every AI capability in your domain: is it trained on data Autodesk owns and controls, or does it represent vendor capture of Autodesk's logic? Use AI directly in your own research, analysis, prioritization, and execution
• Build trust and alignment across technical and business stakeholders, and drive decisions without relying on direct authority
• Drive adoption of what you build, including bringing stakeholders who previously owned their own tech decisions through the transition to a centralized model with trust intact
• Define and own the KPIs for your domain, connecting product-level metrics to the broader PPL talent strategy, and build the dashboards and leading indicators that make performance visible before problems compound
• Identify portfolio risks, redundancies, and opportunities early, and bring recommendations, not open questions, to leadership before they surface as escalations
• Build new domain and technical fluency quickly as the portfolio and tools evolve, rather than waiting for structured training

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About Autodesk

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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 $142,425 and $259,050. 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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In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.