Autodesk, Inc

Sr. Principal Experience Designer, AEC

Autodesk, Inc$155K — $278K *
Consumer Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of UX design experience as an individual contributor or leader
  • Experience designing SaaS products across various devices and platforms
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills to influence diverse teams
  • Proficiency in design tools like Figma and AI-enabled prototyping software
  • Ability to collaborate effectively in cross-team environments
  • Online portfolio showcasing relevant experience and impact

Responsibilities

  • Apply expertise in user-centered design and AEC to shape product strategy
  • Create design vision artifacts including prototypes and visual frameworks
  • Translate complex user needs into clear experience direction
  • Communicate design vision through effective storytelling and presentations
  • Support innovation in design practices to improve outcomes
  • Partner with multidisciplinary teams to align design with technical constraints

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and financial benefits
  • Generous time off policies for work-life balance
  • Focus on everyday wellness for employees
  • Additional perks designed to enhance employee effectiveness
Full Job Description

Job Requisition ID #

26WD98408

Position Overview
At Autodesk AEC, we help teams meet the world’s rapidly expanding building and infrastructure needs while making design and construction more predictable, safe, and sustainable. The Construction Field Delivery team is transforming how projects are delivered through a connected productivity platform that is intuitive, scalable, AI-driven, and seamlessly accessible across mobile, and web.

We are seeking a Senior Principal Designer to help shape the next generation of construction experiences within Autodesk Forma. Reporting to the Director of Experience Design for Construction Field Delivery, you will define and drive a cohesive UX vision across web and native iOS/Android experiences serving both office administrators and jobsite teams. This role requires balancing the competing needs and operational realities of multiple user groups working within highly complex construction workflows.

As a senior design leader, you will establish scalable design frameworks and interaction models across a broad product ecosystem while leveraging emerging technologies (i.e. on mobile) to solve deeply complex customer problems. You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and executive leadership to shape strategy, influence outcomes, and elevate experience quality across everything we deliver. Through strong systems thinking, storytelling, and design craft, you will inspire cross-functional teams and help define how technology improves the delivery of large commercial and civil projects in the real world.

Travel: approximately quarterly across North America and other international locations.

To be considered, when applying, you must include a portfolio with access/password on your resume.*

Responsibilities
  • Apply deep product, platform, user-centered design, and AEC industry expertise to influence product strategy, anticipate emerging customer needs, and identify opportunities where new technologies can deliver meaningful customer value
  • Create compelling design vision artifacts, including prototypes, diagrams, concepts, and visual frameworks, to inspire teams and drive alignment
  • Translate complex user needs and business priorities into clear, actionable experience direction and system frameworks
  • Communicate design vision and strategy with clarity and impact through effective storytelling, leading presentations and discussions that build trust, inform decisions, and engage diverse, cross-functional audiences
  • Support innovation and organizational learning by introducing new design practices, exploring emerging frameworks, and helping teams improve the pace, quality, and ambition of design outcomes
  • Partner with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineering leaders across multiple time zones to guide the translation of design vision into feasible, end-to-end experiences aligned with platform and technical constraints
Minimum Qualifications
  • 12+ years of professional experience as a UX design individual contributor and/or design leader
  • Experience designing SaaS products across multiple device types and software platforms
  • Strong communication, facilitation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to influence across UX, Product Management, Engineering, and Analytics
  • Proficiency with industry-standard design tools such as Figma and AI-enabled prototyping tools
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in larger, cross-team environments
  • Online portfolio showcasing relevant experience and impact
Preferred Qualifications
  • Demonstrated interest in mentoring and supporting the growth of other designers
  • Experience driving design vision involving innovative technologies (such as agentic experiences, mobile, or smart devices)

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’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $155,000 and $278,300. 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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