Principal User Experience Designer, AEC Data

Position Overview 

Do you pride yourself in crafting visionary user experiences for intricate data workflows? Are you obsessed with enabling customers to flow through complex tasks with high confidence? Do you enjoy evaluating user experiences to discover opportunities for simplification and optimization? If yes, you may be a good fit for the AEC Data team. 

Autodesk’s rapidly growing AEC Data team is looking for a Principal Experience Designer to shape cohesive, scalable data experiences across our platform products. In this position, you will help cast a fresh experience vision for the future of digital asset management and model development within the AEC. You will work in partnership with business stakeholders, experience designers, content designers, product managers, developers, and customers to transform how users interact with and manage granular data associated with the AEC Asset lifecycle. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact on the customer experience across Autodesk’s entire AEC portfolio of products. 

Autodesk’s AEC Data team designs the APIs, services, and user interfaces that customers and developers use to access and manage granular data across the project lifecycle as well as extend the capabilities of Autodesk’s design and make software. We’re on a mission to help users solve important workflow challenges and unlock powerful new insights that leverage their data in new ways across our ecosystem. Success in this role requires a sound understanding of Building Information Modelling and the AEC project lifecycle. This role will often be required to collaborate with internal partners and customers alike. We’re looking for someone who can lead and partner with curiosity, empathy, and optimism, and who’s passionate about crafting world-class platform experiences. 

This role reports to the experience design manager for the AEC Platform Experience and Analytics. 

Responsibilities 

• Evaluate business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities to support experience design strategy

• Create compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, prototypes, and documentation) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions

• Lead and participate in customer research activities during the planning, strategy development, and early design of solutions

• Evaluate existing experiences to discover opportunities for transformation and standardization

• Meet with customers and development partners to validate designs and make iterative improvements

• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation

• Lead and design complex workshops, incorporating innovative facilitation techniques for maximum impact

• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate and enhance the ongoing impact of experience design within the AEC

• Drive successful implementation of the user experience design specifications in collaboration with development teams

• Use design thinking to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges

• Maintain familiarity with Autodesk software to ensure compatibility with capabilities and services shared across our portfolio

Minimum Qualifications 

• 8+ years of related professional user experience design and customer research experience 

• 4+ years designing complex b2b / technical platform experiences 

• Bachelors degree or equivalent work experience  

• Current portfolio of commercial UX project work 

• Familiarity with Autodesk products, BIM, and the AEC Project Lifecycle 

• Up-to-date expertise in human-centered design best practices 

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, manage multiple tasks, and set priorities with direction and/or feedback from stakeholders and teammates

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distil complex ideas to their essence

• Demonstrated experience employing user research methods to drive the design process

• Comfortable in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders, can adjust to changing priorities

• High tolerance for ambiguity and competing priorities

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience in large, distributed, enterprise organizations

• Experience working with architecture and manufacturing products and services

• History designing highly technical user experiences (i.e. helping users integrated disparate systems, visualize complex relational information, and/or searching and filtering complex data)

• Some exposure or experience with software development, data science, or BIM management

• Familiarity with Datum360’s products or similar

• Experience in mentoring other UX designers