Senior Manager, Experience Design

Autodesk is a company that creates innovative software for various industries, and they are seeking a Senior Manager of Experience Design for the Admin COE within Forma. This role involves leading the Experience Design team, collaborating with cross-functional leaders, and ensuring the quality and impact of design work to enhance customer experiences in the construction sector.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the frontline manager for all designers in the Admin COE, including coaching, performance management, career development, hiring, and team health
• Partner with the Design Director, Product Management, Engineering, Research, and other cross-functional leaders to shape, communicate, and execute the design vision and strategy for the Admin COE
• Translate customer needs, business priorities, technical constraints, and product strategy into actionable design priorities and high-quality product experiences
• Drive alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders, ensuring Admin experiences are coherent, scalable, and connected across Forma
• Guide the team in balancing near-term delivery with longer-term strategic design work, ensuring that discovery, prototyping, research, and customer feedback are used effectively throughout the development process
• Champion customer-centered design practices, using qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions and improve outcomes
• Maintain accountability for the quality, consistency, accessibility, and delivery of the design team’s work
• Partner with other design leaders to strengthen design systems adoption, experience quality, and cross-product consistency
• Foster a healthy, inclusive, and accountable team culture rooted in trust, clarity, growth, collaboration, and belonging
• Represent the Admin COE design perspective in planning, roadmap, prioritization, and leadership discussions, in partnership with the Design Director
• Identify opportunities to improve team processes, operating models, and collaboration patterns across Design, Product, and Engineering
• Communicate, facilitate, and tell compelling stories that make complex customer problems, design decisions, and product trade-offs understandable and actionable for designers, engineers, product leaders, executives, customers, and end users
• Apply systems thinking to identify patterns, reduce fragmentation, and guide teams toward scalable design solutions across product surfaces, customer roles, permissions, onboarding, project setup, and broader platform workflows

Requirements:

• 8+ years of professional experience in product design, UX design, interaction design, or related fields
• 3+ years of people management experience, including direct management of product designers
• A strong portfolio or body of work demonstrating design leadership, product strategy, systems thinking, and measurable impact
• Experience leading design for complex SaaS, enterprise, platform, administration, or workflow products
• Demonstrated ability to coach and grow designers at different levels of seniority
• Strong communication, storytelling, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience partnering closely with Product Management and Engineering to shape product direction, navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful trade-offs, and deliver customer value
• Strong understanding of human-centered design methods, including discovery, task analysis, journey mapping, prototyping, usability testing, and iterative delivery
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving, and highly collaborative environments
• A strong commitment to high-quality, accessible, customer-centered experiences that balance customer needs, business priorities, and implementation realities
• Experience with serving as a group manager, managing managers, or leading design across multiple product areas, teams, or workstreams
• Experience designing admin, identity, permissions, onboarding, configuration, governance, or platform experiences
• Construction, architecture, engineering, infrastructure, or other complex B2B domains
• Working with design systems and driving design quality at scale
• Using both qualitative and quantitative data to shape strategy, prioritize work, and evaluate outcomes
• Building strong partnerships across distributed teams and multiple geographies
• Shaping enterprise-scale experiences that help customers adopt, govern, and manage software across teams, projects, partner organizations, and complex workflows