Principal Experience Designer

About the role

Autodesk is looking for a Principal Experience Designer to shape the experience direction of a strategic area within Autodesk Forma, its SaaS platform for construction management. The role requires deep understanding of the construction domain and the ability to translate that insight into product strategy and a cohesive experience vision that spans multiple product teams.

Key responsibilities

• Define long‑term experience strategy and design direction for a strategic product area, aligning it with broader customer journeys on the Autodesk Forma platform.
• Develop domain expertise and turn customer, business, and technology insights into clear priorities, experience principles, and strategic recommendations.
• Partner with senior product, engineering, research and design leaders to influence roadmap decisions and guide complex trade‑offs.
• Identify and lead cross‑product opportunities, creating experience frameworks, workflow models and design‑system approaches that scale.
• Shape AI‑powered experiences, ensuring they deliver value and are responsible, understandable and trustworthy.
• Lead high‑impact, ambiguous initiatives with autonomy, balancing strategic outcomes with multiple concurrent priorities.
• Conduct design reviews, planning sessions and cross‑functional forums to build alignment and resolve ambiguity.
• Mentor and collaborate with designers across globally distributed teams to raise overall design quality.

Required profile

• Proven experience designing complex SaaS products, preferably in the construction or related heavy‑industry domain.
• Strong ability to synthesize research, business, and technical data into actionable design strategies.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to work with senior stakeholders across functions.
• Self‑starter who can operate independently while driving alignment across organizational boundaries.

Required skills

• Hands‑on design and prototyping expertise (e.g., high‑fidelity mockups, interaction models).
• Experience creating and evolving design systems, workflow models and experience frameworks.
• Familiarity with AI‑enabled product experiences and responsible design principles.