Autodesk, Inc

Principal Product Manager, PPL Technology

Autodesk, Inc$142K — $259K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product management experience in a complex environment
  • Strong understanding of HR technology and tools
  • Proven ability to translate ambiguous problems into actionable product strategies
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams, including engineering and design
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing environments
  • Demonstrated capability in driving decisions and aligning stakeholders without direct authority
  • Familiarity with AI capabilities and how they apply to product development

Responsibilities

  • Own product strategy and roadmap for a designated HR domain portfolio
  • Manage tool visibility, vendor relations, and contractual decisions
  • Translate complex employee and business issues into product requirements
  • Oversee the experience and intelligence layer, leveraging existing systems like Workday
  • Collaborate closely with engineering throughout the product lifecycle
  • Apply AI capabilities in research and product prioritization
  • Establish KPIs that align product metrics with broader talent strategy

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and financial benefits
  • Time-off policies to promote work-life balance
  • Wellness programs to support mental and physical health
  • Access to professional development opportunities
  • Flexible working arrangements tailored for employee needs
Full Job Description
Job Requisition ID #

26WD100184

People Insights & Solution Design (PI-SD) owns the technology portfolio for People & Places (PPL), the HR and workplace organization supporting nearly 15,000 Autodesk employees worldwide. PI-SD builds the experience and intelligence layer above Workday and other systems of record, so the logic and insight generated by Autodesk's people and workplace data stay owned by Autodesk, not captured by vendors.

Today, too much of that experience is fragmented across disconnected tools. We're moving PPL from that fragmented ecosystem to one seamless experience and intelligence layer, and we need Senior Product Managers to own that shift for an assigned domain, from problem definition through delivery, adoption, and ongoing optimization.

You will work directly with engineering, experience design teams, PPL Centers of Excellence leaders, and senior leaders to translate ambiguous employee and business problems into product strategy, requirements and measurable outcomes for your domain customers.

This role calls for genuine learning agility, not just product experience. The domains, tools, and skills it requires will keep shifting, especially as AI reshapes what a product team can own directly, and we need people who treat that as fuel, not friction. We're looking for product managers who look around corners: who surface risks and opportunities before they become executive escalations, who set direction and make significant calls with minimal oversight, and whose pace is limited by the organization, not by their own judgment or execution.

Responsibilities
  • Own product strategy and roadmap for an assigned PPL domain portfolio, for example Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Compensation & Rewards, Employee Support & Services, Workplace & Travel Experience, or PI-SD's AI-enabled products, applying build versus buy principles and the six-dimension evaluation framework used across the PPL portfolio
  • Own visibility across every tool, vendor, and contract in your domain, and drive renewal, divestment, and consolidation decisions backed by business cases through the quarterly PPL leadership technology review
  • Translate ambiguous employee and business problems into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • Own the experience and intelligence layer for your domain, keeping Workday and other systems of record as infrastructure while PPL owns the logic built on top of them
  • Partner with ESE engineering teams daily through build and delivery, acting as the accountable product voice from requirements through launch
  • Apply the vendor capture test to every AI capability in your domain: is it trained on data Autodesk owns and controls, or does it represent vendor capture of Autodesk's logic? Use AI directly in your own research, analysis, prioritization, and execution
  • Build trust and alignment across technical and business stakeholders, and drive decisions without relying on direct authority
  • Drive adoption of what you build, including bringing stakeholders who previously owned their own tech decisions through the transition to a centralized model with trust intact
  • Define and own the KPIs for your domain, connecting product-level metrics to the broader PPL talent strategy, and build the dashboards and leading indicators that make performance visible before problems compound
  • Identify portfolio risks, redundancies, and opportunities early, and bring recommendations, not open questions, to leadership before they surface as escalations
  • Build new domain and technical fluency quickly as the portfolio and tools evolve, rather than waiting for structured training


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 $142,425 and $259,050. 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.

In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

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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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