Chief of Staff

Job Requisition ID #

22WD61507

"Unified Design" @ Autodesk

At Autodesk, we are obsessed with building tools for people who imagine, design, and make a better world for the 10 billion people living on our planet.

According to the UN, more than 90% of future population growth will occur in cities. This creates an ever-growing pressure to build more densely. At the same time, we become increasingly aware of the importance of sustainability and living qualities like daylight, microclimate, and noise. If the cities of tomorrow are to be both affordable, sustainable, and pleasant places to live, we need to give architects and city planners super-powers to handle this rising complexity. That is our goal in the Unified Design product group at Autodesk: Put the power of analysis, generative design, data, and seamless collaboration in the hands of our customers, to help them build better cities.

Position overview

Reporting to the Vice President of the Unified Design Product group, the successful candidate will be a highly strategic, analytical, organized, motivated and adaptable leader. They will support our leadership team to build a highly agile organization, design operational models and cross-team processes that enable the organization to achieve its mission and execute against key priorities.

In the Unified Design Product group, we are on a journey to disrupt the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry and help the world design and build better cities and spaces. The need for change is pressing, and the challenge is huge. We are innovating, experimenting and moving quickly to enable this transformation and as a result, our team is in a state of constant change. The Unified Design Chief of Staff is critical to our success, as we need to actively manage the change, support our team in delivering on goals, and constantly optimize our operations to adapt.

You'll be a pivotal player with broad impact. Tasked with using your creativity and initiative, you will tackle issues and resolve challenges, ensuring the team is well positioned to execute. You will also focus on relentlessly raising the performance level of the leadership team and the organization as a whole.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning

• Plan and coordinate Unified Design strategy and planning cycles, connecting and leveraging different points of view to help leadership and product teams plan with the best possible business context. This includes development of timelines and process for the organization, supporting teams to completion of associated deliverables, and working collaboratively with the team to prepare presentations
• Plan and facilitate executive meetings/workshops with broader organization (Industry strategy, sales, marketing, customer success). This can include formulating the topics to cover, building and advising agendas, guiding and facilitating the discussion, bringing together notes and action items, and following up as appropriate
• Designing and guiding outcome oriented strategic and tactical team meetings. This could include team building sessions, organizational reviews, strategy discussions, and other topics for team meetings. Ability to frame problems and find structures/models that help people better understand the problem and trade-offs required

Tracking & Follow Up

• Track and communicate organization OKRs. This includes Autodesk objectives and strategic intent metrics assigned to Unified Design, as well as internal Unified Design priorities, goals and metrics. Support the organization in discovering gaps in objectives and priorities across teams and products

Project Management

• Lead special projects and programs. This includes key strategic initiatives that impact the overall success of the company as well as team culture initiatives to help support a healthy organization. Some projects will span beyond the scope of the group, requiring cross-company collaboration

Trusted Counsel

• Act as a 'trusted counsel' to the executive and senior leaders. Provide insight and analysis on the organization's operations, key decisions and other business areas as well as represent the executive in certain meetings he/she is unable to attend. Partner closely with other functions relevant to the team, including Finance, HR, Product Management, Marketing, Support and Sales

Communication

• Manage communications. These can be internal team communications as well as communications out to the wider Autodesk organization
• Support development of presentation content. This can include presentations for executive meetings, customer meetings and other high value events
• Champion a spirit of collaboration and open communications. Work across teams to advance organizational goals and engender trust, including work with other Chief's of Staff across the company, sharing and developing best practices

Minimum qualifications

• GSD - "Get stuff done" attitude: Can solve any task that needs solving
• Break new ground: Comfortable navigating in a big organization, identifying and engaging with teams and stakeholders as necessary to get results
• Agile mindset: Embody attitudes supporting an agile working environment. These include respect, collaboration, improvement and learning cycles, pride in ownership, focus on delivering value, the ability to adapt to change and the drive for continuous improvement
• Starter and finisher: See where improvements can be made and take action to make sure it gets solved. Great at taking responsibility through the whole process from A to B
• Organized: Structured and organized persona that follows up and makes sure nothing falls through the cracks
• "Allrounder": Should be able to step in as "acting" when needed for colleagues on leave
• Courageous: Dare to challenge consensus and established process
• Project Management: demonstrated success leading complex projects and / or programs across teams or organizations
• Education: Bachelor's degree or higher. MBA may be an advantage, but not required
• Business minded: Solid business acumen, critical thinking, problem solving, and organizational skills
• Networker: Versatile self-starter with a team-oriented work style. Ability to build credibility and relationships quickly across functions and levels
• Communication skills: Excellent written and oral communication skills, particularly in English. Ability to communicate complex concepts concisely, clearly and effectively across multiple levels including executive leadership team, peers, managers and junior staff
• Servant Leader: Ability to lead and support teams with empathy, and inclusion, empowering teams and individuals to create desired results with psychological safety
• Integrity: Highest level of integrity and management of confidential information
• Sounding board: A good sounding board for others, with a low ego and ability to anticipate the needs of a busy executive
• SaaS: Experience working in a SaaS environment
• Customer Facing: Experience working in Customer facing roles
• Product Organization: Experience working in a Product Organization

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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