Autodesk

Principal User Experience Designer

Autodesk

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Washington • California • Colorado • United States

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Salary

💰 $133,300 - $215,600 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead vision and strategy for complex, journey-driven systems and workflows, ensuring solutions scale across products, platforms, and services
  • Shape cross-functional roadmaps by synthesizing research, customer needs, and business objectives into clear, actionable design strategies
  • Independently frame ambiguous problems and drive complex initiatives from definition through delivery, navigating tradeoffs and incomplete information
  • Partner closely with product, engineering, research, and content to deliver cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences
  • Raise the bar for design quality across interaction, usability, and visual craft, influencing standards beyond immediate project teams
  • Mentor and coach designers across teams, elevating craft, systems thinking, and strategic judgment at a program or organizational level
  • Explore and apply AI-driven workflows and emerging technologies to improve both the design process and customer experience
  • Communicate complex ideas clearly to senior stakeholders, contributing to shared understanding, alignment, and design best practices across the organization

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience designing and delivering digital experiences within complex, multi-product ecosystems
  • Deep expertise in systems design, interaction design, and information architecture, applied to large-scale products
  • Demonstrated ability to shape product direction and organizational alignment through design-led strategy
  • Exceptional design judgment grounded in strong principles, customer insight, and business context
  • Proven ability to lead through influence in highly cross-functional environments, including with senior stakeholders
  • Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, end-to-end experience design, and sustained impact across multiple teams or initiatives
  • Experience mentoring designers and raising the quality bar across teams or programs
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where problems and constraints are often ill-defined
  • Curiosity and adaptability, with experience exploring or integrating AI-enabled tools and workflows into design practice.
Benefits
  • From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
systems designinteraction designinformation architecturedesign-led strategyend-to-end experience designAI-driven workflowscustomer experience designdesign quality standardscross-functional roadmapsdesign judgment
Soft Skills
mentoringcoachingcommunicationinfluencecuriosityadaptabilityproblem-solvingstrategic judgmentcollaborationsynthesis