Senior Manager, Change Management

Autodesk; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Manager of Change Management to drive transformation across its Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams. This role involves leading a change management team, ensuring readiness, and collaborating with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in change management frameworks and a strong focus on stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in change management in complex environments.
• 3 years of direct people management experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead change management impact assessments for GTM transformation.
• Build and deploy a scalable change framework.

Skills

Change Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree in Organizational Development

Tools

Prosci/ADKAR

Job description

At Autodesk, we empower innovators to make anything—and behind every transformation we drive externally is a deep commitment to evolving how we work internally. As we accelerate enterprise growth, our go-to-market (GTM) teams are undergoing significant change. We are looking for a Senior Manager of Change Management to help us successfully lead through our evolution , ensuring our Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams are engaged, enabled, and equipped to thrive.

Reporting to the Head of Transformation & Programs, this role is critical to the success of Autodesk’s GTM evolution. You will lead a change management team that dives deep into impacts created across teams and ensuring that impacted teams can see the changes that are coming. You will work closely with both our Business Process Excellence team and our Enablement team as part of the horizontal teams that look at our most important changes and drive people readiness. This position requires deep expertise, relationship building, and will directly impact our ability to scale transformation across a global GTM organization of over 7,000 people.

Responsibilities

• Lead change management impact assessments for major GTM transformation and growth initiatives
• Partner with cross-functional teams (program management, enablement, business process excellence) to ensure integrated change plans that drive adoption and minimize disruption
• Hire and manage a team of change managers to lead change management and change impact
• Build and deploy a scalable change framework to standardize approach, tools, and outcomes to manage change
• Develop deep understanding and manage stakeholders to ensure readiness across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
• Collaborate with executive sponsors and functional leaders to ensure visibility, alignment, and support for key initiatives
• Define success metrics and track change adoption, business impact, and feedback loops to inform continuous improvement
• Contribute to a culture of change agility, building internal capability through coaching, training, and best practice sharing

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience leading change management in large, complex environments
• At least 3 years of direct people management experience, with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement and team development
• Expertise in change management frameworks (e.g., Prosci/ADKAR) and tools, with a pragmatic, results-oriented application style
• Experience working in or supporting go-to-market teams (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Revenue Ops)
• Ability to translate complex initiatives into accessible messages and practical action plans
• Exceptional interpersonal and influence skills; able to build trust across executive and operational levels ·Adept at managing multiple, fast-paced initiatives with competing priorities
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Organizational Development, Business, or related field preferred

The Ideal Candidate

• Has led enterprise-level change efforts supporting commercial strategy or customer-facing transformation
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving clarity
• Naturally collaborative with a strong sense of accountability
• Brings both strategic perspective and tactical execution strength
• Passionate about enabling people through change and building resilient, adaptive teams

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 – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Job Requisition ID #

25WD88330

Position Overview

At Autodesk, we empower innovators to make anything—and behind every transformation we drive externally is a deep commitment to evolving how we work internally. As we accelerate enterprise growth, our go-to-market (GTM) teams are undergoing significant change. We are looking for a Senior Manager of Change Management to help us successfully lead through our evolution , ensuring our Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams are engaged, enabled, and equipped to thrive.

Reporting to the Head of Transformation & Programs, this role is critical to the success of Autodesk’s GTM evolution. You will lead a change management team that dives deep into impacts created across teams and ensuring that impacted teams can see the changes that are coming. You will work closely with both our Business Process Excellence team and our Enablement team as part of the horizontal teams that look at our most important changes and drive people readiness. This position requires deep expertise, relationship building, and will directly impact our ability to scale transformation across a global GTM organization of over 7,000 people.

Responsibilities

• Lead change management impact assessments for major GTM transformation and growth initiatives
• Partner with cross-functional teams (program management, enablement, business process excellence) to ensure integrated change plans that drive adoption and minimize disruption
• Hire and manage a team of change managers to lead change management and change impact
• Build and deploy a scalable change framework to standardize approach, tools, and outcomes to manage change
• Develop deep understanding and manage stakeholders to ensure readiness across Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
• Collaborate with executive sponsors and functional leaders to ensure visibility, alignment, and support for key initiatives
• Define success metrics and track change adoption, business impact, and feedback loops to inform continuous improvement
• Contribute to a culture of change agility, building internal capability through coaching, training, and best practice sharing

Minimum Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience leading change management in large, complex environments
• At least 3 years of direct people management experience, with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement and team development
• Expertise in change management frameworks (e.g., Prosci/ADKAR) and tools, with a pragmatic, results-oriented application style
• Experience working in or supporting go-to-market teams (Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Revenue Ops)
• Ability to translate complex initiatives into accessible messages and practical action plans
• Exceptional interpersonal and influence skills; able to build trust across executive and operational levels ·Adept at managing multiple, fast-paced initiatives with competing priorities
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in Organizational Development, Business, or related field preferred

The Ideal Candidate

• Has led enterprise-level change efforts supporting commercial strategy or customer-facing transformation
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving clarity
• Naturally collaborative with a strong sense of accountability
• Brings both strategic perspective and tactical execution strength
• Passionate about enabling people through change and building resilient, adaptive teams

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 – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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About the company

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries.