Autodesk, Inc

Customer Support Manager

Autodesk, Inc$80K — $143K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in customer support or related leadership roles
  • Experience in managing managers and senior-level staff
  • Proven ability to influence across diverse teams and stakeholders
  • Strong understanding of SaaS customer support operations
  • Successful track record in process optimization and automation
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • High emotional intelligence and strong problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

  • Manage and develop customer support leaders and teams to meet business KPIs
  • Hire and onboard managers while enhancing leadership capabilities
  • Drive customer excellence through effective coaching and performance management
  • Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on digital and operational evolution
  • Influence global strategies while catering to regional business needs
  • Collaborate with cross-functional leaders to enhance customer experiences
  • Navigate business ambiguities and shifting priorities to make sound decisions
  • Foster a customer-focused culture of accountability and adaptability

Benefits

  • Access to continuous learning and professional development
  • Opportunities for cross-training and collaboration
  • Culture emphasizing inclusion, innovation, and adaptability
  • Strong emphasis on work-life balance
  • Supportive environment for leadership and personal growth
Full Job Description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98378

Position Overview

Autodesk’s Customer Technical Support (CTS) organization is driven by customer-focused, solutions-oriented professionals who thrive in a fast-changing digital world.The Digital Support team delivers scalable, high-quality support experiences across Autodesk products through operational excellence, digital engagement, and rapid service delivery. TheDigital Support team delivers scalable, high-quality support experiences across Autodesk products through digital engagement and rapid service delivery, underpinned by a foundation of operational excellence.

The Customer Support Manager will report to the Sr. Manager of GlobalTier IDigital Support.They will lead and develop regional Customer Support Associate Managers and Team Leads, who oversee teams of Customer Support Associates and Sr. Customer Support Associates across their respective regions.TheCustomer Support Manager will driveexcellence, cross-functional alignment, and continuous improvement initiatives that elevate both customer experience and business outcomes. This leader will operatewith a “think global, act local” mindset — balancing regional needs with globally aligned processes, standards, and customer experiences.

This role requires a strong people leader who can influence broadly across teams and GEOs, drive accountability, improve efficiency through process optimization and automation, and help modernize support in an increasingly digital and AI-enabled environment. The ideal candidate is highly self-driven and able tooperateeffectively with a high degree of autonomy — demonstratingstrong ownership, sound judgment, and the ability to independently drive priorities, decisions, and results while partnering closely with leadership.

The ideal candidate can balance strategic thinking with operational execution, elevate those around them, and help push the business and organization forward during a pivotal period of transformation and growth.

Responsibilities 

  • Manage and develop high-performing Customer Support leaders and professionals by developing and translating organizational priorities into scalable team execution plans and measurable outcomes that consistently deliver against team, department, and business KPIs, including Autodesk’s “what” (business results) and “how” (leadership behaviors and values) expectations  

  • Hire, onboard, and develop managers and individual contributors while building leadership capability, succession readiness, and growth opportunities across the organization as the business and team structures continue to evolve  

  • Drive customer excellence through strong leadership, accountability, coaching, and performance management while continuously evolving team expectations, service models, and support strategies to meet changing business and customer demands 

  • Create an environment of continuous improvement by leading strategic and operational initiatives focused on digital transformation, operational scalability, automation, AI-enabled support experiences, and evolving support models that elevate customer experiences, improve efficiency, and drive scalable processes, consistency, collaboration, and organizational maturity across teams and regions  

  • Lead through influence across GEOs and cross-functional organizations to drive globally aligned strategies while balancing regional business needs with a “think global, act local” mindset  

  • Partner closely with leaders across Customer Success, Adoption, Product, Engineering, Operations, and other business functions to represent the Voice of the Customer by identifying trends, risks, operational gaps, and emerging customer expectations, translating insights into actionable improvements that drive customer outcomes, scalable support experiences, and business impact  

  • Effectively navigate ambiguity, shifting priorities, and evolving business expectations while making sound decisions that can be clearly articulated across diverse stakeholder groups and levels of leadership/employees 

  • Support organizational readiness for product changes, feature launches, cross-training opportunities, escalations, incidents, and new business priorities through proactive planning, communication, and cross-functional coordination  

  • Operate with a balance of strategic leadership and operational execution — willing to engage in tactical problem-solving when needed while primarily elevating leaders and teams to independently drive results and business impact  

  • Foster a globally aligned, customer-focused culture centered on accountability, inclusion, innovation, adaptability, and continuous learning while building trusted relationships and demonstrating professionalism, resilience, sound judgment, and executive presence across teams, GEOs, and stakeholder groups  

 

Minimum Qualifications 

  • 8+ years of experience leading customer support, customer success, or technical support teams with a demonstrated track record of operational and people leadership success  

  • Experiencesuccessfullymanaging managers, team leads, and/or senior-level (advanced/expert) individual contributors preferred 

  • Proven ability to influence across teams, GEOs, and stakeholder groups to drive alignment and business outcomes 

  • Strong understanding of customer support operations, digital support strategies, and customer experience expectations in SaaS or technology environments 

  • Successful experience driving operational improvements,process optimization, automation, and scalable service delivery. Has been successful suggesting area of opportunity for which procedures are not established and for which approaches must be defined and/or adapted significantly, leading the outcome where appropriate

  • Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and evolving priorities 

  • Demonstrated ability to think strategically while executing effectively in fast-paced, highly dynamic environments 

  • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities 

  • High emotional intelligence with the ability to coach, motivate, and develop teams while effectively managing escalated situations 

  • Adaptable, resourceful, and resilient with a continuous improvement mindset and passion for innovation 

  • Experience working across global organizations or multiple GEOs preferred 

  • Travelis expectedbased on business needs 

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About Autodesk, Inc

Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquartered in San Rafael, California, and features a gallery of its customers' work in its San Francisco building.
Learn more about Autodesk, Inc
Size
12,600 employees
Market Cap
$40.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.2 billion
Founded
1982
5 Year Trend
+16.6%
Revenue
$3.7 billion
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