Autodesk is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join the PDMS Platform Organization, where they build foundational platform and application frameworks that power Autodesk’s product ecosystem. This role involves owning a major area of the PDMS platform, shaping multi-year strategy, and ensuring the platform evolves to meet product needs while collaborating with various teams.
Responsibilities:
- Own a major area of the PDMS platform and product application frameworks, with clear accountability for outcomes, adoption, and impact
- Define and maintain a multi-year product strategy and roadmap aligned with Autodesk’s broader platform and business objectives
- Translate long-term strategy into actionable plans that balance platform evolution with immediate delivery needs
- Clearly articulate the value proposition, boundaries, and intended usage of platform capabilities for internal and external stakeholders
- Partner closely with engineering to ensure platform capabilities are designed, prioritized, and delivered in a way that enables downstream product teams to move faster and with higher quality
- Work with internal product teams to understand real-world use cases, constraints, and integration needs, and reflect those insights in platform decisions
- Drive alignment across teams to reduce fragmentation, duplication, and friction in application development
- Monitor platform adoption and usage, using data and feedback to guide iteration and investment
- Collaborate with platform engineering, architecture, developer experience, research, and downstream product teams across Autodesk
- Lead cross-organization alignment on platform priorities, tradeoffs, and sequencing
- Prepare and deliver clear, compelling executive-level communication, including strategy presentations, roadmap reviews, and decision proposals
- Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders by framing complex platform topics in business and customer terms
- Balance the needs of internal Autodesk product teams with those of external developers and partners, where applicable
- Advocate for platform consistency, scalability, and extensibility across a large and diverse product ecosystem
- Incorporate industry context (e.g., CAD/CAM/MFG workflows) into platform decision-making where it adds value
Requirements:
- 5 + years of product management experience, with experience owning platforms, frameworks, or shared services in a large-scale product ecosystem
- Proven ability to define and execute multi-year product strategies while delivering incremental value
- Experience working closely with engineering teams on technically complex products, with moderate technical depth (able to reason about APIs, architectures, and tradeoffs without being hands-on)
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, including influencing without authority
- Demonstrated experience communicating with and presenting to executive audiences
- Track record of enabling other teams to deliver successfully through platform investments
- Experience with large-scale product ecosystems supporting multiple products or lines of business
- Familiarity with CAD, CAM, or Manufacturing domains
- Experience building or evolving internal developer platforms, application frameworks, or shared infrastructure