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Senior Portfolio Manager

Canada (all locations)

The Team

The Platform Portfolio Team is the "reality check" for the Platform strategy. The platform is the shared system that connects data, AI, and workflows across Autodesk’s products—so how it evolves directly shapes how work actually gets done across the company. We don't just track status; we ensure our biggest investments are grounded in how the work is going. As part of Platform Next, we give leaders the direct context they need to make hard calls on risks and tradeoffs by partnering closely with the Technical Program Management and Analytics & Insights teams. We are a small, high-impact team that cuts through the noise to ensure our decisions reflect execution reality, not just what's on a slide.

Position Overview

As a Senior Portfolio Manager, you ensure leadership makes the right decisions by translating complex execution into clear, usable context. You will be accountable for managing a portion of the portfolio spanning AI-driven capabilities, data and interoperability, developer platforms, and the underlying infrastructure that keeps the platform secure, reliable, and globally available. You aren't here to manage mechanics or move data around; you are here to understand the strategy and the work deeply enough to connect roadmap reality to business outcomes, surfacing the hard truths that leaders need to hear to make the platform viable and adoptable.

Responsibilities

• Support leaders to make high-stakes decisions: Frame the context for tradeoff decisions and make the tradeoffs explicit, even when the implications are uncomfortable.
• Check reality: Get to the truth of progress hiding behind status reports; identify where execution is drifting from strategy before it becomes a crisis.
• Surface the right signals: Be accountable for building and improving the tools and workflows needed to get the truth in front of leaders at the right time.
• Protect the investments: Apply financial and strategic context to connect portfolio decisions to long-term viability and innovation, not just short-term status.
• AI-enabled execution: Use internal AI tools to automate portfolio workflows, generate insights, and connect data across systems as a core part of how the work gets done.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7-10 years leading project, program, or portfolio management in high-stakes, complex technical environments.
• 3-5 years having direct accountability within a portfolio of $150M+ investment scope with a proven track record of delivering business outcomes, not just tracking tasks.
• 2+ years of direct accountability for portfolio investment health based on quantitative financial KPIs, such as labor costs, margin protection, and ROI, to drive prioritization for a major business unit
• Direct participation in portfolio, prioritization, and/or strategic planning processes for organizations with 7K+ employees.
• Proven ability to engage directly with VPs to raise risks and drive difficult tradeoff discussions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or turning around a portfolio function from scratch, including the operating model and data strategy.
• Experience operating in transformation or turnaround environments where portfolio clarity and decision-making were critical to success.
• Airtable and JIRA power user experience, including building and managing complex workflows, data models, and reporting

The Ideal Candidate

• You cut through the fluff and “smoke and mirrors” to get to what’s actually happening behind status reports and dashboards.
• You use tools and data to make better decisions, not as an end in themselves.
• You have a voracious appetite for learning and are constantly curious. You dig to understand how work actually gets done.
• You understand how the business strategy, platform strategy, and portfolio fit together, and use that to connect day-to-day work to bigger outcomes.
• You take feedback, look for ways to add real value, and operate with a broader view of what the portfolio is trying to achieve.
• You see AI as a way to fundamentally change how portfolio management works, not just make existing processes faster.

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About Autodesk

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