Principal UX Designer (REMOTE)

Job Requisition ID #

22WD63407

Position overview

At Autodesk, we're making software to revolutionize the construction industry. Over $100 billion in new construction is managed on our platform every month, from major stadiums to local schools and hospitals. We want to make it predictable, safe and sustainable.

As a Principle UX Designer, you will collaborate with your Senior Product Manager and Engineering Lead to shape the strategy of our platform's core network product. We're looking for someone who is a champion for human-centered design, a relentless advocate for user needs, and has a track record of driving design strategy in complex problem spaces to deliver compelling user experiences.

This position can be based in the United States or Canada. Please include resume, portfolio and password when applying.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation
• Be an expert and leader in your product domain, contributing to vision and strategy at the forefront of strategic execution
• Communicate and advocate on behalf of your team, product, and users with leadership, stakeholders, and the broader organization
• Drive projects spanning many teams to mold long-term approaches to problems fundamental to our construction platform
• Use customer insights that come from analytics and customer interactions to help inform business and design decisions
• Plan and lead user research initiatives to validate designs, make iterative improvements, and uncover potential product directions
• Contribute to and lead efforts to create scalable experience design standards and improve design processes
• Lead design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of related professional experience
• Quality portfolio of recent work
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence
• Demonstrable experience utilizing a variety of human-centered design methods and best practices
• Understanding of task analysis, experience mapping, low-fidelity prototyping, user testing and more, with the ability to choose the right tool at the right time
• Experience leveraging research and data to inform design decisions, and comfortable defining performance metrics to measure results
• Experience leading user research - interviews, ethnography, user testing, etc.
• Comfortable in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders, and can adjust to changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• BA/BS or graduate degree in HCI, interaction design, or equivalent experience
• Experience with agile software design methods
• Experience supporting a complex ecosystem with multiple products
• Comfortable working on a distributed team and collaborating remotely

The Ideal Candidate

• Passionate about designing things people love to use
• Brave in the face of complexity and adversity
• Positive, can-do approach that invites collaboration
• Takes the lead on projects with minimal oversight
• Leans into complex problem spaces and proactively engages with teammates to drive towards shared understanding and clarity
• Brings expertise and experience to the team and makes others around them better through mentoring and the shaping of team culture
• Naturally curious and proactively asks questions to increase understanding of customer needs and business strategy
• Works to develop empathy for customers and is a strong advocate for their needs
• A systems thinker - loves exploring how different parts of a complex system fit together and can be made to work seamlessly
• Seeks feedback on designs, and provides thoughtful feedback to others

About Autodesk Construction Solutions
Autodesk has fully reimagined the construction business for the digital age, enabling company/ies to address the most important challenges they face today while preparing for new ways of working in the future. The Autodesk Construction Solutions (ACS) portfolio connects the office, trailer and field so customers can move seamlessly through each phase of a building's lifecycle - from design and preconstruction to construction, turnover and operations - with best-in-class solutions that include Assemble Systems, BIM 360, BuildingConnected and PlanGrid. General contractors, subcontractors, and owners around the world rely on ACS to win more work, enhance collaboration, speed decision-making, reduce risk, and improve overall project outcomes.

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