Position Overview 

This is your chance to join an awesome and empowered team who is passionate about creating impact and has a lot of fun doing it together! With Autodesk Forma, we are on a mission for a better world - literally - by radically improving how the built environment meets the needs of humanity and the climate. By combining AI, 3d, cloud collaboration and automation, customers can find more sustainable, affordable and efficient ways to solve the rising challenges brought on by growing cities, climate change, and global conflict. 

As a Senior Experience designer for Autodesk Forma, you will discover how we can support a completely new creative process for architects and urban developers. This means helping our users create 3D models by using data-driven insights to make smart design decisions in an easy-to-use and modern web application. You will work closely with product teams in Oslo, Norway. In addition to having close collaboration with designers and product teams in the US and Canada. 

About us 

We’re on a mission to help design better cities. According to the UN, more than 90% of future population growth will happen in cities. To respond to this trend in a sustainable way, AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry needs a new generation of software tools and disruptive workflows.  

We’re building software to help architects, urban planners, and real estate developers find the smartest and most sustainable ways to unlock the potential of any building site. Outcome-based design, which is at the foundation of our product, takes into account living quality, environmental impact, and project profitability.  

Spacemaker was acquired by Autodesk in 2020, to be the seed of the next generation of a cloud-based, connected platform for the AEC industry: Forma. We have an extremely exciting journey ahead of us, building out a platform that connects phases and verticals. This is an inspiring journey you don´t want to miss! 

We operate as a fundamentally agile organization, organized to give teams the autonomy to innovate at speed while staying aligned to create a world-class offering. We are organized into cross-functional teams, with software and machine learning engineers working closely with product management and design. 

Our way of working 

We operate as a fundamentally agile organization. Our teams have the autonomy needed to innovate at speed while staying aligned. We empower our teams to determine how to develop their solutions by supporting decision-making with a bottom-up approach. We are organized in cross-functional teams, with software and machine-learning engineers collaborating with product managers and designers in each team. In our organization, we strongly believe in servant leadership and team accountability. We also see great strengths in allowing you to define how you work (and where you work from) to be most successful. Our teams collaborate across time zones and continents. To learn more about what we believe make an organization great, look at our product core beliefs. 

Responsibilities 

• Closely follow the user needs and achieve deep insight and ownership of the product area 

• Translating complex user needs into design concepts in close collaboration with both local and global product teams consisting of designers, software engineers, architects, data scientists, etc.  

• Design and evaluate alternative solutions to choose the best approach to solve user needs, while also considering technical constraints and the anticipated value to customers 

• Contribute to our overall strategy and decision-making about product direction 

• Facilitate and participate in user research like interviews and usability testing to validate designs and make iterative improvements 

• Contribute to way of working and design processes in and between teams 

Qualifications 

• 3+ years of relevant work experience in User Experience Design. A solid understanding of designing intuitive product functionality, user interfaces, and navigation.  

• Great at handling complexity, and reducing complex problems down to valuable and efficient solutions for end users  

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, and an ability to effectively convey conceptual design work both within and outside of your product team 

• Comfortable working autonomously on a distributed team and collaborating remotely 
   

Preferred qualifications 

• Experience working at an enterprise software company that is building SaaS products 

• Interest in architecture and urban design