Senior UX Designer for AI-Driven AEC Workflows

Autodesk, Inc; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 106,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Autodesk, Inc. invites a Senior UX Designer in the United States to join a newly established AI-powered Autodesk initiative within AEC.

You will lead end-to-end experience design for workflows that connect documents, data, and AI insights, shaping how teams work more efficiently. You will partner with product and engineering, conduct interviews with U.S.-based customers, and translate complex project information into clear interaction models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or above in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of relevant design experience.
• Experience designing complex digital products, services, or systems from problem definition through implementation.
• Strong human-centered design practice, with judgment to adapt research, ideation, prototyping, and validation methods.
• Systems-thinking across workflows, dependencies, actors, information, constraints, and scalable information architectures.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear interaction models, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs using Figma or similar design tools.
• Experience synthesizing customer research, using evidence to influence direction, and communicating through visual and verbal storytelling.
• Experience partnering with product managers and engineers on strategy and execution, and helping teams move from ambiguity to action.
• Interest or experience in AI-assisted products, especially explainability, sources, confidence, uncertainty, recovery, and human judgment.
• Experience in AEC, architecture, engineering, construction, design documentation, or other complex professional workflows.
• Experience with Autodesk products, professional tools, incubation environments, or scalable interaction frameworks.
• Based in the United States, with ability to engage regularly with U.S.-based customers and travel for research, design-partner sessions, and industry engagement as needed.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end experience design for key workflows, from problem framing and concept exploration through validation and production.
• Partner closely with product and engineering to understand customer problems, shape the roadmap, and identify high-value workflows to explore.
• Build relationships with U.S.-based customers and design partners through interviews, workflow observation, concept testing, usability testing, and in-person sessions when useful.
• Turn complex project information and workflows into clear experiences that connect context, documents, data, AI insights, and customer actions.
• Contribute to experience principles, information structures, and interaction models for AI-assisted workflows, including how to communicate sources, confidence, uncertainty, and human judgment.
• Synthesize research, product data, industry knowledge, and business goals to identify opportunities, guide decisions, and communicate direction through journeys, workflows, information architectures, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Facilitate cross-functional exploration of ambiguous problems and help align product, engineering, domain experts, customers, stakeholders, and partner Autodesk teams.
• Advocate for customer needs while balancing feasibility, product strategy, business goals, and rapid incubation learning.
• Share design patterns, practices, and learnings with the team and Autodesk's Experience Design community.

Skills

Human-centered design

Systems thinking

Storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or above

Tools

Figma

Job description

Autodesk, Inc. invites a Senior UX Designer in the United States to join a newly established AI-powered Autodesk initiative within AEC.

You will lead end-to-end experience design for workflows that connect documents, data, and AI insights, shaping how teams work more efficiently. You will partner with product and engineering, conduct interviews with U.S.-based customers, and translate complex project information into clear interaction models.