Autodesk, Inc

Director, Brand Management

Autodesk, Inc$145K — $260K *
US-AnywhereRemote in California City, CA
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in brand management within a high-growth SaaS tech company.
  • Proven track record in leading large, integrated brand campaigns across multiple channels.
  • Deep experience in managing external agencies and complex internal relationships.
  • Strong strategic thinking fused with operational discipline.
  • Exceptional agency leadership skills, able to challenge and elevate creative work.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior leader guiding Autodesk's largest integrated advertising campaigns.
  • Ensure brand expressions align with Autodesk's narrative and creative standards across all channels.
  • Act as a trusted creative partner, enhancing work while preserving creative freedom.
  • Lead and manage Autodesk's brand agency ecosystem for high-quality output.
  • Establish best practices for agency engagement, briefing, and feedback.
  • Partner closely with internal teams to ensure brand cohesion and impact.
  • Evolve Autodesk's brand management model for a high-growth SaaS organization.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and financial benefits including wellness programs.
  • Flexible time off policies and support for everyday wellness.
  • Opportunity to work in a hybrid or remote environment.
Full Job Description
Job Requisition ID #

26WD94680

Director of Brand Management
Location: United States (Hybrid / Remote)
Reports to: Global VP, Brand & Creative

The Opportunity
Autodesk is looking for a Director of Brand Management to help steward and evolve one of the world's most influential design and technology brands. This role sits at the center of our brand ecosystem-guiding our largest integrated advertising campaigns, leading agency partnerships, and acting as a center of excellence for brand management across the company.This is a highly visible role for a strategic brand leader who pairs sharp creative instincts with operational excellence, and who thrives at the intersection of agencies, internal stakeholders, and ambitious business goals.You will be a key partner in shaping how Autodesk shows up in the world-ensuring our brand is not only consistent and coherent, but emotionally resonant, creatively bold, and built to scale.

What You'll Do
Lead Brand Stewardship & Campaign Excellence
  • Serve as a senior brand leader responsible for guiding Autodesk's largest integrated advertising campaigns with the focus being on shepherding the creative concepts and ideas.
  • Ensure all brand expressions align to Autodesk's brand platform, narrative, and creative standards across channels and regions.
  • Act as a trusted creative partner, with a keen eye for strong ideas and the ability to elevate work without stifling creativity.

Own Agency Management & Center of Excellence
  • Lead and manage Autodesk's brand agency ecosystem, ensuring clear scopes, strong collaboration, and consistently high-quality output.
  • Establish best practices for agency engagement, briefing, feedback, and performance management.
  • Act as a center of excellence for brand management across Autodesk, advising teams on brand strategy, positioning, and execution.

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment
  • Partner closely with internal stakeholders across marketing, product, communications, events, and regional teams to ensure brand cohesion and impact.
  • Navigate complex stakeholder environments with clarity, diplomacy, and confidence-bringing people along while maintaining high standards.
  • Translate business objectives into clear brand and creative direction that teams and agencies can rally around.

Build for Scale
  • Help evolve Autodesk's brand management model to support a high-growth, global SaaS organization.
  • Balance long-term brand building with near-term business needs, ensuring speed without sacrificing quality.
  • Contribute to the broader leadership and culture of the Brand & Creative organization.

What Success Looks Like
  • Autodesk's biggest campaigns are creatively strong, strategically sound, and flawlessly executed.
  • Agency partners feel challenged, inspired, and crystal-clear on expectations.
  • Internal teams trust brand management as a strategic partner-not a gatekeeper.
  • The Autodesk brand shows up with confidence, consistency, and emotional resonance at global scale.


What You Bring
Experience
  • 10+ years of experience in brand management at a high-growth product or SaaS technology company.
  • Proven experience leading large, integrated brand campaigns across multiple channels.
  • Deep experience managing external agencies and complex internal stakeholder relationships.

Skills & Mindset
  • A sharp eye for creative excellence and the judgment to know what great looks like.
  • Exceptional agency leadership skills-able to push, partner, and elevate work simultaneously.
  • Strong strategic thinking paired with operational rigor.
  • Clear, confident communicator who can bring structure to ambiguity.
  • Calm, thoughtful leadership style with the ability to influence at senior levels.

Nice to Have
  • Experience helping evolve or scale a brand in a rapidly growing organization.
  • Comfort operating in a global, matrixed environment.

Why Autodesk
At Autodesk, we design and make the world around us. Our brand reflects human ingenuity, optimism, and the belief that anything can be made better through design and technology. This role offers the opportunity to help shape that story at a global scale-working alongside a passionate, ambitious Brand & Creative team committed to doing meaningful, standout work.

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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 $145,000 and $260,150. 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.

Belonging

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

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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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