Principal Experience Designer

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Position Overview

Designers at Autodesk can think across the system, champion design ideas, collaborate with stakeholders, advocate for the customer, and deliver impactful data-driven designs. Our designers use creative and innovative solutions to deliver high-quality experiences that delight our customers.

Help shape how millions of people supervise and trust AI inside the tools they use to design and make the world. As Principal Experience Designer on the team behind the Autodesk Assistant, you'll define how agentic AI behaves in software that people use to design and build real things. When an agent proposes a change to a building model or a part, how does someone see what it did, trust it, and undo it? That's the work.

The Autodesk Assistant is how customers will experience AI across our Design and Make platform, embedded inside Autodesk products. In this position you'll set the design direction for the agentic experiences the Assistant brings to product teams across the portfolio. Our customers are professionals whose work has real cost and safety consequences, and they won't hand control to an AI they can't check. Our team stewards the patterns that let them check it.

At Autodesk we look to hire innovators who reimagine what's possible, those with diverse backgrounds who elevate our thinking, and leaders who help shape the world and our future.

For consideration, candidates must include both a resume + portfolio with password when applying.

Responsibilities

• Define the agentic interaction patterns that Autodesk product teams adopt when they integrate the Autodesk Assistant, including reasoning visibility, action controls, permissions and consent, and citation and grounding
• Raise the quality bar for AI experiences in the Autodesk Assistant and advocate for it with partners. Define how we'll know an experience is working, such as task completion and adoption
• Lead the design of patterns that product teams across Autodesk adopt, so they build on shared patterns rather than point solutions
• Build working prototypes with real data to test interaction models with customers and to give engineers a clear target
• Mentor senior and staff designers on the team, and support designers across Autodesk who are shipping Autodesk Assistant capabilities inside their own products
• Partner with senior stakeholders in Product, Engineering, and AI Research on Autodesk Assistant decisions, and push on frontier-model capabilities when the experience calls for it
• Partner with Data Scientists and others using data to support driving data informed decisions and experimentation
• Use data and customer research to decide where agentic experiences need to improve, inform your design decisions and experimentation

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or a related field, at principal-level scope: you've shaped design direction beyond your own team
• A portfolio that shows organizational impact as well as craft
• You're an expert in human-centered design, and you adapt the process to fit larger, more complex problems
• A point of view on what makes an AI experience good, and a track record of raising the bar
• You've designed how people supervise AI that acts on their behalf (reasoning visibility, controls, citations, consent), and other teams adopted those patterns in their own work. You can show how you measured adoption
• You've shipped generative AI to production and can show what it did for users or the business
• You choose a direction when the model's behavior, the data, and the requirements are still changing
• You use AI tools to build working prototypes with real data and to move ideas toward shipped work, without lowering the craft bar. Your portfolio includes work that AI tools helped you make
• You've mentored senior and staff designers, and you still ship your own work
• You're a clear communicator and storyteller who works closely across functions
• Demonstrated partnership with Data Scientists or other related cross-functional partners using data-informed decisions to influence design direction

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for multi-agent workflows or tool-use orchestration (for example, MCP)
• Familiarity with frameworks for evaluating AI experience quality, such as Minimum Trustworthiness, Transformative Value, or equivalent quality-gate models
• Experience designing within organizational AI governance principles (Trusted AI, Responsible AI, or equivalent)
• Experience designing complex technical software for professional users

Learn More / En savoir plus

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

À propos d’Autodesk

Bienvenue chez Autodesk ! Nos logiciels créent chaque jour des choses extraordinaires : des bâtiments les plus écologiques aux voitures les plus propres, en passant par les usines les plus intelligentes et les films à succès. Nous aidons les innovateurs à concrétiser leurs idées, transformant non seulement la façon dont les choses sont fabriquées, mais aussi ce qui peut l’être.

Nous sommes très fiers de notre culture chez Autodesk ; elle est au cœur de tout ce que nous faisons. Notre culture guide notre façon de travailler et de nous comporter les uns envers les autres, influence nos interactions avec nos clients et nos partenaires, et définit notre image au monde.

En tant qu’Autodeskien, vous pouvez accomplir un travail significatif qui contribue à bâtir un monde meilleur, conçu et réalisé pour tous. Prêt à façonner le monde et votre avenir ? Rejoignez-nous !

Salary transparency / Transparence Salariale

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $116,000 and $170,500 Annual. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Le salaire est l'un des éléments du programme de rémunération concurrentiel d'Autodesk. Pour les postes basés au Canada, nous offrons un salaire de base entre $116,000 et $170,500 annuel. Le salaire est déterminé selon l'expérience professionnelle et l'emplacement du candidat(e), et peut dépasser cette fourchette. En plus du salaire de base, notre programme de rémunération peut inclure une prime annuelle, des commissions pour les postes de ventes, des attributions d'actions et un ensemble complet d'avantages sociaux.

Belonging / appurtenance 
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging

Nous sommes fiers de cultiver une culture d’appartenance où chacun peut s’épanouir. Pour en savoir plus, cliquez ici: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging

In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

Intégration en présentiel et vérification d’identité

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.

Ce poste peut nécessiter une intégration et/ou une vérification d'identité en présentiel.