Senior UX Designer - Incubation

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We are looking for a Senior UX Designer based in the United States to join a newly established Autodesk initiative within AEC. The team is building an AI-powered solution to help teams in architecture, engineering, and construction work more efficiently.

This is a 0-to-1 role on a small Autodesk incubation team working across product, engineering, AI, domain expertise, and customer research. The first 1–2 years will focus on finding product-market fit by testing ideas, understanding customer needs, and iterating quickly on prototypes and early releases.

What we are building

The initiative aims to help AEC teams work more efficiently by bringing useful information and AI assistance into their workflows. The product will need to make complex project information, documents, data, and AI-generated insights clear and useful.

Why this team and role are different

This initiative combines startup-like incubation with Autodesk’s scale: a small founding team, close customer access, fast learning cycles, and the opportunity to shape a new product.   The initial market focus is the U.S., so this role depends on close engagement with U.S.-based customers, design partners, and industry experts through interviews, workflow observation, usability testing, and in-person collaboration when valuable.  If you want a narrowly defined design brief inside an established product, this may not be the right role. If you want to contribute to the product direction, customer needs, interaction model, and design foundations for an emerging product in AEC, keep reading.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end experience design for key workflows, from problem framing and concept exploration through validation and production.
• Partner closely with product and engineering to understand customer problems, shape the roadmap, and identify high-value workflows to explore.
• Build relationships with U.S.-based customers and design partners through interviews, workflow observation, concept testing, usability testing, and in-person sessions when useful.
• Turn complex project information and workflows into clear experiences that connect context, documents, data, AI insights, and customer actions.
• Contribute to experience principles, information structures, and interaction models for AI-assisted workflows, including how to communicate sources, confidence, uncertainty, and human judgment.
• Synthesize research, product data, industry knowledge, and business goals to identify opportunities, guide decisions, and communicate direction through journeys, workflows, information architectures, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Facilitate cross-functional exploration of ambiguous problems and help align product, engineering, domain experts, customers, stakeholders, and partner Autodesk teams.
• Advocate for customer needs while balancing feasibility, product strategy, business goals, and rapid incubation learning.
• Share design patterns, practices, and learnings with the team and Autodesk’s Experience Design community.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of relevant design experience
• Experience designing complex digital products, services, or systems from problem definition through implementation.
• Strong human-centered design practice, with judgment to adapt research, ideation, prototyping, and validation methods.
• Systems-thinking skills across workflows, dependencies, actors, information, constraints, and scalable information architectures.
• Ability to translate complex information into clear interaction models, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs using Figma or similar design tools.
• Experience synthesizing customer research, using evidence to influence direction, and communicating through visual and verbal storytelling.
• Experience partnering with product managers and engineers on strategy and execution, and helping teams move from ambiguity to action.
• Interest or experience in AI-assisted products, especially explainability, sources, confidence, uncertainty, recovery, and human judgment.
• Experience in AEC, architecture, engineering, construction, design documentation, or other complex professional workflows.
• Experience with Autodesk products, professional tools, incubation environments, or scalable interaction frameworks.
• Based in the United States, with ability to engage regularly with U.S.-based customers and travel for research, design-partner sessions, and industry engagement as needed.

Ideal Profile

• Works independently through ambiguity and turns uncertain problems into clear design paths.
• Combines strong product-design craft, systems thinking, research judgment, and practical influence.
• Builds credibility across product, engineering, domain experts, customers, and stakeholders through clear reasoning, collaboration, facilitation, and visual storytelling.
• Moves quickly to learn while maintaining quality for important professional decisions.
• Collaborates generously, strengthens team practices, and is motivated by helping AEC teams work more efficiently and with greater confidence.
• You may be a strong fit if you turn complex workflows into clear product experiences, map messy systems, and make difficult decisions understandable and actionable.
• You start from customer evidence.

Why join us

• Meaningful senior-level scope: Help shape core workflows, experience principles, and interaction patterns while the product direction is still open.
• Customers within reach: Work directly with AEC professionals, design partners, and industry experts to learn from real workflows and feedback.
• A problem that matters: Help improve how teams manage complex work, make decisions, and move projects forward.
• Thoughtful AI-assisted workflows: Design how AI-generated insights, supporting information, confidence, uncertainty, and professional judgment come together in a product people can rely on.
• Startup energy with Autodesk reach: Work in an incubation environment with access to Autodesk’s customer relationships, technology ecosystem, and broader design community.

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!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $106,000 and $189,970. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

Belonging

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In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

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