Autodesk, Inc

Sr. Principal Experience Designer, AEC

Autodesk, Inc$155K — $278K *
Real Estate & Construction
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 on a mission to transform how projects are delivered for our global construction customers through a productivity platform that is intuitive, scalable, AI-driven, and seamlessly accessible across mobile, web, and IoT.

Reporting to the Director, Experience Design, the Senior Principal Experience Designer will help shape the next generation of construction user experiences in Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC). In this role, you will report to the Head of UX for Field Delivery and Data Management to define and drive an inspiring, cohesive design vision. You will leverage emerging and established technologies to solve complex customer problems, influence outcomes across a broad product ecosystem, and inspire designers, product managers, and engineers through clarity of vision and design craft. Through strong cross-functional partnership and leadership alignment, you will help raise the bar for product experience quality across everything we deliver to customers.

Preference for candidates in Portland, Oregon. Open to candidates in the US and Canada in Atlanta, Novi, Toronto.

**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 (particularly AI, XR, and other emerging capabilities) 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, smart devices, or intelligent systems)

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
NASDAQ

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Autodesk, Inc

More Real Estate & Construction Jobs

Find similar Sr. Principal Experience Designer, AEC jobs: