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Job Requisition ID #
24WD81236
Position Overview
Ever wanted to help build the tools that designers use to envision a better world? Autodesk’s platform team designs the Application Programming Interface (API), services, and infrastructure that our customers and developers use to extend the capabilities of Autodesk’s design and make software. The platform helps other companies bring businesses to life to solve important workflow challenges and reimagine new possibilities based on our 3D modeling, visualization, and data insight software by contributing new applications, content, and plugins to our ecosystem. You’ll collaborate with other leaders, designers, and teams who are passionate about bringing exceptional experiences to the fields of architecture, construction, manufacturing, and film and visual effects.
As a Content Design Manager of API experiences, you’ll define the strategy for accessing and visualizing application data offered through the Autodesk cloud. You’ll lead and inspire a team of content and experience designers in helping bring customer workflows to life as their industries undergo digital transformation. You'll provide the tools, processes, and structure to a team responsible for changing the way design is accomplished—with automated workflows and collaboration across company boundaries.
In this position, you’ll build experiences across many interfaces—desktop, web, and mobile—as well as API, SDK, and low-code touchpoints. You and your team will have the opportunity to dive deep into the technical understanding of developer needs, get ahead of technological trends, build a pathway from current technology to the future—and help our customers build amazing applications on top of granular data.
Success in this role requires a sound understanding of API development concepts and experience design strategy, project and program management, creative and systems thinking, along with an ability to incorporate feedback from stakeholders, integrators and customer research with a lens on business impact. We’re looking for someone who can champion the Autodesk platform vision through compelling storytelling, someone whose people skills complement their technical skills, and who’s passionate about bringing human voices in crafting world-class API experiences. If this sounds like you, come join our team!
To be considered, please submit both your resume and portfolio with a password if needed.
Responsibilities
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Lead, coach, and collaborate with your team members, delegating and reviewing in-flight work to accomplish individual and team goals
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Identify outcome-based projects and swiftly determine resourcing needs required to meet the schedules and goals. Provide guidance to ensure that the craft meets the quality standards and incorporates the project directives and requirements
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Build understanding between teams, while eliminating confusion, and getting to the bottom of issues quickly
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Develop and implement operational initiatives that deliver tactical results. Translate functional plans into innovative processes and right sized execution
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Recommend changes to existing policies and establish new procedures that impact your immediate team—and influence adjacent teams
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Interact with your team leadership, customers, functional peers as well as product managers and software architects
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Effectively communicate through presentation—making recommendations across design and product discipline. Partner with key contacts outside your own area of expertise as well as external stakeholders
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Form a network with company-wide designers, product management, and customer support to train and evangelize new workflows and functionality
Minimum Qualifications
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9-12 Years of experience into IT Industry
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5 + years of experience designing and shipping API experiences
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2 + years of experience managing a content design, technical writing, or user experience team
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Experience communicating content design related topics to an internal and external audience
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A history of delivering and measuring the impact of products and platforms on production environments
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Technical ability to engage with development tools (i.e., Git, VS Code, Postman, Stoplight, Swagger)
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A degree in a related field of design, such as HCI, product design or interaction design, or a computer science degree paired with commensurate experience design work experience
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience designing for cloud platforms
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Experience with user experience design process or design thinking process
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Experience in design research practices including interviews, user testing, etc.
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Skills in prototyping and design software (i.e., Figma, Adobe products)
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About Autodesk
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We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.
When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
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What We Do
Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything.
Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D.
We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife.
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