Senior Program Manager

Autodesk, Inc.; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 102,000 - 183,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk is seeking a Program Manager to join the Lifecycle Experience Engineering and Product organization. You will own end-to-end reporting for the LEEP portfolio and craft clear narratives for executives and contributors.

This role requires 5+ years of experience managing complex reporting in a technical setting, strong communication skills, and comfort with AI-enabled automation. Collaboration across Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Operations is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of end-to-end reporting and communications in technical/engineering contexts.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across emails, slides, and video.
• Experience with PowerPoint, MS Teams, and SharePoint.
• Willing to leverage AI to automate deliverables.
• Proficient with Jira and Confluence; able to learn AirTable.
• High emotional intelligence and discretion with sensitive information.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end reporting for LEEP with a repeatable cadence.
• Translate weekly updates into concise executive briefings.
• Collaborate across the organization to align weekly leadership reporting.
• Maintain a single source of truth narrative for portfolio status.
• Evolve reporting formats and leverage AI to support work.
• Create feedback loops to capture gaps and flag risks.
• Support other programs and help prepare content for all-hands and leadership events.

Skills

5+ years experience

Strong communication

PowerPoint

MS Teams

SharePoint

Jira

Confluence

AirTable

Email outreach

Emotional intelligence

Tools

PowerPoint

MS Teams

SharePoint

Job description

Autodesk is looking for an outstanding Program Manager to join our Lifecycle Experience Engineering and Product (LEEP) organization. This fast-moving group is focused on building and enhancing systems and tools that are loved by the people that use them. We sit at the intersection of technology and the business, making sure we deliver to Sales, Finance, Marketing and more the capabilities they need to succeed. The Briefing and Intelligence Office is a newly established function under the Chief of Staff, built to give leadership and stakeholders a clear, consistent view of our portfolio, so they always know where things stand, if there is risk and where their help is needed. You’ll take technical jargon and complexity and turn it into narratives anyone can follow, from individual contributor to executive. This is a storytelling role, requiring disciplined program management. You’ll need the discipline to own a repeatable cadence, and the craft to make the reporting something people want to read. You can work across a wide variety of people and roles to know which content to pull in, when to leverage or direct to existing content, ask the right questions and walk out with a narrative. We’re looking for a self-starter, who can build out the cadences, templates, mediums and then evolve the offerings. You won’t need to be a technical expert in the room, but experience working with Product Managers, and Developers on back-end systems is an asset.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end reporting for LEEP, building a repeatable cadence our stakeholders can rely on, so they consistently know the status of the portfolio without having to chase it down or scan through multiple communications. Stakeholders include Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations and more Assess what needs to be communicated each week, translating the update into clear, concise briefings for executives and individual contributors alike. Work closely across our organization to collect, refine and align our weekly report with the leadership team, ensuring appropriate agreement and approvals are in place Build and maintain a single source of truth narrative for the portfolio status; what’s on track, what’s at risk, when rollouts are expected, decisions that need to be made, what has been reprioritized and where stakeholders need to step in Evolve and refine reporting formats, leveraging AI to support your work Create a feedback loop to capture misalignment and gaps in information and flag risks and escalations early Support other programs across the Chief of Staff’s team, as capacity allows Help plan and prepare content for all-hands meetings, leadership offsites, speaking engagements and more.

Minimum Qualifications

You have 5+ years’ experience managing reporting and communications across a wide portfolio of projects and programs from start to finish in a technical or engineering adjacent environment. Strong communications skills. You can craft diverse messaging across various mediums, like email, PowerPoint, SharePoint, video. Eager to learn and leverage AI to automate and enhance your deliverables. Highly adept at all O365 tools, especially PowerPoint and MS Teams / SharePoint. Working proficiency with Jira and Confluence and can learn AirTable. Ability to target individuals, teams, or leaders with concisely formatted emails, crisp and engaging slides or videos. You possess high emotional intelligence and know how to manage sensitive information in confidence and with discretion.

The Ideal Candidate

You put the health of your teams first, and business priorities a close second. You are great at building collaborative relationships up, down, and sideways. You have a passion for understanding data and the story it is telling or the problem to be solved. You want to influence the course of business: You’re fearlessly able to articulate a clear approach that will effectively capture stakeholders’ attention and compel action and you regularly seek constructive feedback that helps you grow and evolve. You thrive on change: You adapt to the environment around you. Where others see a threat to the status quo, you see an opportunity to innovate and get ahead of the curve. More than that, you want to be the person who sparks change in the way we get the job done.

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

For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $102,000 and $182,710. 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!