Senior Industry Manager, Production Environments

Autodesk; Novi (MI); On-site; USD 103,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk in the United States seeks a Senior Industry Manager for Production Environments to lead strategy for a major industrial operations domain, helping manufacturers become more connected, efficient, and resilient.

You will influence roadmaps, shape market positioning, and build trusted relationships with customers, partners, and analysts while guiding cross‑functional teams through evidence‑based decisions. This role requires 8+ years of experience and travel of 25–30%.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in industrial operations, product/market strategy, consulting, or transformation.
• Knowledge of production environments, workflows, priorities, and technologies.
• Experience guiding strategies using customer research, market intelligence, and sizing.
• Ability to influence priorities across cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Experience engaging senior customer leadership and industry stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop an evidence-based perspective on evolving production environments grounded in customer workflows and market dynamics.
• Collect and synthesize insights to identify meaningful Autodesk opportunities.
• Frame opportunities, clarify value, and define success measures.
• Shape strategy and positioning for priority opportunities; advise where to invest or partner.
• Translate industry opportunities into product, platform, and portfolio priorities.
• Develop credible recommendations on value, fit, and dependencies with risk considerations.
• Influence roadmaps and investments across teams by clarifying trade-offs and value.
• Build trusted relationships with customers, partners, analysts, and associations.
• Lead high-value engagements to test ideas and surface emerging needs.
• Represent Autodesk as a credible industry voice in discussions on production environments.
• Use external engagement to sharpen Autodesk's market perspective and ecosystem ties.
• Create narratives and recommendations that clarify complex industry choices for senior audiences.
• Lead through influence, aligning stakeholders around strategic priorities and decisions.
• Guide strategic initiatives from insight to early execution with evidence-based refinement.

Skills

Industrial operations

Market strategy

Customer research

Competitive analysis

Cross-functional influence

Senior stakeholder engagement

Storytelling

Travel 25-30%

Tools

MES

ERP/MRP

SCADA

IIoT

Job description

Position Overview

Our team is reimagining how customers connect design, make, and operate workflows into a continuous value cycle. As a Senior Industry Manager for Production Environments, you will lead strategy for a significant industrial operations domain or opportunity, helping manufacturers, distributors, process facilities, and other asset‑intensive organizations become more connected, efficient, and resilient.

Job Requisition ID #

26WD100455

Responsibilities

• Develop a clear, evidence-based perspective on how production environments are evolving, grounded in customer workflows, business priorities, market dynamics, and technology change
• Collect and synthesize customer, market, and competitive insights to identify patterns, challenge assumptions, and reveal meaningful opportunities for Autodesk
• Frame and evaluate strategic opportunities, bringing clarity to customer value, market potential, differentiation, trade-offs, and measures of success
• Shape market strategy and positioning for priority opportunities, defining where Autodesk can win and recommending where to focus, invest, partner, or sequence activity
• Translate industry opportunities into clear implications for Autodesk’s product, platform, partnership, and portfolio priorities
• Develop credible recommendations that clarify customer value, strategic fit, capability needs, dependencies, risks, and expected outcomes
• Influence roadmap and investment decisions across relevant teams by clarifying strategic value, capability requirements, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs
• Build trusted relationships with customers, industry leaders, partners, analysts, and associations to deepen Autodesk’s understanding and strengthen its strategic direction
• Lead high-value customer and industry engagements that test ideas, surface emerging needs, and advance priority opportunities
• Represent Autodesk as a credible industry voice and trusted advisor in important conversations about connected production environments
• Use external engagement to strengthen Autodesk’s market perspective, positioning, and ecosystem relationships
• Create compelling narratives and recommendations that make complex industry choices clear, relevant, and actionable for senior audiences
• Lead through influence, aligning cross-functional stakeholders around strategic priorities, trade-offs, and decisions
• Guide material strategic initiatives from insight through decision and early execution, using outcomes and new evidence to refine direction

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in industrial operations, product strategy, market strategy, consulting, enterprise technology, or transformation, or equivalent practical experience
• Strong knowledge of production environments and the workflows, business priorities, and technologies that shape them
• Experience developing market, product, business, or transformation strategies using customer research, market intelligence, competitive analysis, and market sizing
• Demonstrated ability to influence strategic priorities and decisions across cross-functional teams
• Experience engaging senior customer leadership, partners, and industry stakeholders
• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex topics clear and compelling
• Experience leading strategic initiatives in a matrixed organization
• Ability to travel approximately 25-30%

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in manufacturing, process industries, warehousing and distribution, or other asset-intensive production environments
• Familiarity with industrial systems and technologies such as MES, ERP/MRP, SCADA, IIoT, digital twins, or operational analytics
• Experience with enterprise software, platforms, ecosystems, or digital transformation
• Experience influencing product strategy, market positioning, partnerships, or technology roadmaps
• Established relationships within relevant customer, partner, or industry communities

The Ideal Candidate

• You connect customer reality, market change, and technology possibilities to meaningful business opportunities
• You are exceedingly curious, seek to understand how customers work and what is changing, and use evidence to create clarity in ambiguity
• You are a credible, collaborative influencer who builds trust, aligns diverse audiences, and adapts as new information emerges

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.

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 $103,000 and $183,920. 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.

Belonging

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

In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

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