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Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking a Distinguished Experience Architect to join our Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Solutions division. In this role, you will define and advance the system-level experience architecture for Agentic AI experiences, shaping how intelligence, automation, and adaptive workflows are expressed across products, platforms, and industries.

As a visionary leader and senior individual contributor, you will work at the intersection of design, product, and technology to establish conceptual frameworks, architectural models, and guiding principles that enable coherent, scalable, and trustworthy AI-driven experiences across Autodesk. You will help define how emerging agentic capabilities integrate into customer workflows and influence the future direction of intelligent product experiences.

This role is ideal for a systems thinker with deep expertise in experience architecture, conceptual modeling, and cross-organizational alignment. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, architects, and senior leaders to shape long-term direction, guide near-term decisions, and drive architectural cohesion across a rapidly evolving AI landscape.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the lead experience architect for Agentic AI experiences, defining actionable strategies that unify business, technology, and customer priorities

• Own system-level experience architecture spanning products, platforms, and workflows, helping drive architectural direction and broad product strategy

• Define and evolve UX architecture frameworks, conceptual models, and reusable architectural patterns that guide consistent and scalable experience decisions

• Lead the definition of foundational experience models for intelligent systems, including identity, memory, context, permissions, invocation, and workflow orchestration

• Drive cross-functional and cross-organizational alignment across product, engineering, UX, and architecture teams through workshops, reviews, design sprints, and strategic discussions

• Influence product direction and roadmap decisions by translating long-term architectural vision into practical guidance for implementation

• Collaborate with executive stakeholders, designers, engineers, product managers, and architects to ensure coherent and effective outcomes across initiatives

• Create prototypes, presentations, and architectural artifacts that communicate future-state vision and enable adoption across teams

• Drive design cohesion, unification, and modernization across AI-driven and agentic experience initiatives

• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to help Autodesk remain innovative and competitive in intelligent product experiences

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in user experience design, experience architecture, information architecture, or a related field

• Deep expertise in systems thinking, conceptual modeling, and architectural frameworks for complex product ecosystems

• Experience defining system-level or platform-level experience architecture across multiple products or teams

• Experience shaping AI-assisted, automated, or agentic product experiences

• Ability to advocate for a shared design vision that aligns customer and business priorities with diverse audiences, including senior executives

• Mastery of communication, storytelling, and facilitation skills, with the ability to align teams around complex strategic concepts

• Experience creating influential relationships within and across product groups

• Ability to work effectively in agile and fast-moving environments

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience defining foundational models for intelligent or agentic systems, including memory, context, identity, permissions, and workflow orchestration

• Experience working across large, matrixed organizations with influence across multiple business units

• Familiarity with Autodesk AEC products or similarly complex workflow-driven enterprise products

• Experience driving large-scale design unification across multiple verticals, platforms, or products

• Recognition as a thought leader in experience architecture, systems design, or related disciplines through publications, presentations, patents, or other industry contributions

• Passion for shaping the future of AI-enabled workflows and empowering professionals through better tools and experiences

About Autodesk

Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

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 https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $188,000 and $337,590. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

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