Autodesk, Inc

Platform Strategy Manager

Autodesk, Inc$103K — $183K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Pennsylvania, US
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of relevant experience in strategy roles
  • 1+ years of experience in strategy consulting at leading firms
  • Dedicated experience in the tech industry, particularly software/SaaS
  • Strong fluency in relevant technologies
  • An engineering degree or demonstrated experience in computer/information technology

Responsibilities

  • Support hypothesis generation for complex initiatives with a clear analytical structure
  • Develop and maintain detailed workplans to guide projects
  • Conduct comprehensive research on customers, competitors, and markets
  • Analyze financial data and build financial models for strategic insights
  • Execute various analytical approaches to validate hypotheses through data
  • Craft actionable recommendations that consider strategic and organizational needs
  • Structure high-impact presentations for senior leadership
  • Foster collaborative relationships across directors and senior directors

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and financial benefits
  • Flexible time-away policies
  • Support for everyday wellness
  • Resources to facilitate best work practices
Full Job Description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98783

Position Overview

Join our platform strategy team at Autodesk where you will impact developing a platform strategy while supporting execution through prioritizing and developing strategy for initiatives, identifying and evaluating M&A targets and supporting cross-functional strategy for technology partnerships. You will report to the Director, Platform Strategy.

You will be supporting platform strategy initiatives across multiple teams within the platform organization and/or across Autodesk. You will inform business direction for our global platform transformation by informing and influencing sound business strategies that have an impact on platform efforts across all industry verticals.Candidates need to be willing to travel to San Francisco office or other Autodesk locations quarterly or up to monthly.

Responsibilities

  • Supporting hypothesis generation process on complex initiatives, developing high quality (MECE and relevant) hypothesis tree

  • Develop and update workplan

  • Define and execute customer, competitive, market research

  • Analyze financials, build models

  • Develop and execute analytical approaches to prove out hypotheses including interviews, surveys, data analysis

  • Develop realistic, value adding and implementable recommendations, merging strategic, organizational, technological and cultural requirements

  • Structure presentations of Director/Sr Director level quality, focusing on creating impact

  • Build trusted working relationships at the Director/Sr. Director level across the organization

  • Work with research/analytical teams across to influence relevant analysis and insights are generated, to inform platform strategy initiatives


Minimum Qualifications

  • 5+ years of related experience

  • 1+ years strategy consulting experience at leading firms with high skills training rigor

  • Strategy work in tech industry, ideally software/SaaS

  • Relevant technology fluency

  • Engineering degree or demonstrated interest or experience in computer/information technology spaces

Preferred Qualifications

  • M&A due diligence experience

The Ideal Candidate

  • Platform Strategy 6 Create a strategy for the 3-5-year horizon for Autodesk horizontal technologies within Autodesk Platform Services (APS) such as Data, AI/ML, Insights, Developer, Trust, Visualization, and other cross Industry vertical capabilities. Support the strategic evolution of Autodesk products into workflow-centric cloud-based experiences. Incorporate technology and architectural trends into the 3 65-year strategy by aligning with technology and research leaders

  • Developer Ecosystem Monetization 6 Build a long-term strategy for Autodesk 2s developer ecosystem monetization, to accelerate growth and adoption of our product offerings and create an additional revenue stream for Autodesk. Leverage this to offer specific, high value functionality for our customers above and beyond our standard offerings

  • M&A 6 Identify and evaluate M&A opportunities to increase the value of the platform and explore new business models related to new offerings

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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

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk 2s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $103,000 and $183,920. Offers are based on the candidate 2s 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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