Autodesk, Inc

Director, Business Operations Partner, Emerging Technologies

Autodesk, Inc$162K — $262K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Business Operations, or a similar role in enterprise tech.
  • Experience supporting VP and SVP sales leaders in a direct, field-facing function.
  • Strong understanding of specific sales motions such as enterprise or emerging technologies.
  • Proven problem-solving skills with a focus on diagnosing and resolving operational issues.
  • Familiarity with Salesforce and sales operational tools, comfortable working with data.
  • Ability to drive initiatives across various teams without direct authority in complex environments.
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of translating complex operations into actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

  • Understand the sales processes and operational challenges at a granular level.
  • Diagnose and resolve operational problems by engaging with field teams directly.
  • Identify and act on systemic patterns from business performance and stakeholder feedback.
  • Clarify ambiguous problems into solvable questions and align stakeholders.
  • Own operational issues end-to-end, coordinating with teams as necessary without transferring accountability.
  • Establish and maintain operational rhythms such as status updates and issue tracking.
  • Create compelling business cases for necessary changes and ensure stakeholder alignment.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and financial benefits.
  • Generous time away policies to promote work-life balance.
  • Wellness programs to support everyday health and well-being.
  • Additional benefits can be explored in the U.S. at Autodesk's benefits site.
Full Job Description
Job Requisition ID #

26WD101120

Position Overview

As Director, Operations Business Partner, you are the dedicated operations partner for Autodesk's Emerging Technologies business. You are embedded with senior Emerging Technologies Sales leadership, serving as their primary point of accountability for the business's operations. You are responsible for diagnosing and resolving the Emerging Technologies team's highest-impact operational and business challenges, especially those that cut across systems, functions, and organizational boundaries.

This is not a coordination or facilitation role. You are accountable for outcomes - doing the work yourself where you can and driving teams to deliver where you can't. What you never do is hand off accountability. The problems are real, the stakeholders are senior, and the work directly affects how a multi-billion-dollar software business operates and executes in the field. When this role is working well, Emerging Technologies leadership moves faster, operational gaps close before they become business issues, and the connection between the field and the broader organization is stronger. That outcome is yours to drive.

Responsibilities
  • Get into the details of how the Emerging Technologies business operates - understand the sales process, the execution gaps, and the friction points at the ground level
  • Diagnose operational problems yourself: talk to the field, form a clear point of view, and drive toward a solution before escalating or engaging others
  • Identify patterns across field conversations, business performance, and stakeholder input to isolate systemic issues - and act on them, not just report them
  • Reframe ambiguous or misdiagnosed problems into clear, solvable questions; get senior stakeholders aligned and moving toward resolution
  • Own operational issues end-to-end - do the work yourself where you can, pull in the right teams where you need to, but never hand off accountability for the outcome; your interface extends beyond the Revenue Operations team to include Marketing, Customer Success, IT, and Finance
  • Build and run the operational rhythms that keep the Emerging Technologies business on track: status reviews, escalation loops, issue tracking, and field feedback channels
  • Build the business case for what needs to change - pressure-test the logic, align stakeholders across functions, and present a clear recommendation
  • Push back on field requests that are not enterprise-aligned; make the call on what to prioritize and what not to
  • Represent the Emerging Technologies field perspective directly in annual planning, segmentation design, coverage model changes, and policy development - not through a proxy
  • Identify and synthesize systemic patterns from the field that should reshape how Revenue Operations programs are designed and resourced
  • Prepare and deliver operational context for leadership reviews - own the narrative, not just the slides


Minimum Qualifications
  • 10+ years in Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Business Operations, or a related business partner role at an enterprise technology company
  • Direct experience supporting VP and SVP-level Sales leaders in an embedded, field-facing capacity
  • Deep understanding of at least one sales motion: enterprise sales, Emerging Technologies, expansion, or commercial/emerging business
  • Strong problem-solving orientation - ability to diagnose friction, define root causes, and drive cross-functional resolution; top-tier consulting (McKinsey, Bain, BCG) or equivalent in-house strategy experience is a strong signal
  • Proficiency with Salesforce and sales and operational tooling; comfortable enough with data to know what questions to ask and when the numbers do not add up
  • Gets things done without direct authority across a wide functional surface - Revenue Operations, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance - comfortable making calls, taking ownership, and moving fast in complex organizations
  • Strong communicator - translates operational complexity into clear recommendations for both field leaders and central operations teams


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 $162,500 and $262,790. 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.

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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