Principal User Experience Designer, AEC Data (Canada)

Autodesk, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Job Requisition ID: 25WD93275 Principal User Experience Designer, AEC Data (Canada) Position Overview Do you pride yourself in crafting visionary user experiences for intricate data workflows? Are you obsessed with enabling customers to flow through complex tasks with high confidence? Do you enjoy evaluating user experiences to discover opportunities for simplification and optimization? If yes, you may be a good fit for the AEC Platform Data team.

Autodesk’s rapidly growing AEC Platform Data team is looking for a Principal Experience Designer to shape cohesive, scalable data experiences across our platform products. In this position, you will help integrate central data management experiences and patterns into products like Forma. You will work in partnership with business stakeholders, experience designers, content designers, product managers, developers, and customers to transform how users interact with and manage granular data in their projects.

We’re on a mission to help users solve important workflow challenges and unlock powerful new insights that leverage their data in new ways across our ecosystem. Success in this role benefits from a sound understanding of data management principles, foundational UX tactics, Building Information Modelling and related design solutions, and the AEC project lifecycle. This role will often require collaborating with internal partners and customers alike. We’re looking for someone who can design and partner with curiosity, empathy, and optimism, and who’s passionate about crafting world‑class platform experiences.

This role reports to the experience design manager for AEC Platform Experience and Analytics.

Application Requirements When applying you must include both your resume and an accessible portfolio with password if needed.

Responsibilities

Evaluate business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities to support experience design strategy

Create compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, prototypes, and documentation) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions

Lead and participate in customer research activities during the planning, strategy development, and early design of solutions

Evaluate existing experiences to discover opportunities for transformation and standardization

Meet with customers and development partners to validate designs and make iterative improvements

Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation

Lead and design complex workshops, incorporating innovative facilitation techniques for maximum impact

Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate and enhance the ongoing impact of experience design within the AEC

Drive successful implementation of the user experience design specifications in collaboration with development teams

Use design thinking to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges

Maintain familiarity with Autodesk software to ensure compatibility with capabilities and services shared across our portfolio

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of related professional user experience design and customer research experience

4+ years designing complex B2B/technical platform experiences

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Current portfolio of commercial UX project work

Familiarity with Autodesk products, BIM, and the AEC Project Lifecycle

Up-to-date expertise in human-centered design best practices

Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, manage multiple tasks, and set priorities with direction and/or feedback from stakeholders and teammates

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas into their essence

Demonstrated experience employing user testing methods and design critiques to drive the design process

Comfortable in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders, can adjust to changing priorities

High tolerance for ambiguity and competing priorities

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in large, distributed, enterprise organizations

Experience working with architecture and manufacturing products and services

History designing highly technical user experiences (i.e., helping users integrate disparate systems, visualize complex relational information, and/or search and filter complex data)

Some exposure or experience with software development, data science, or BIM management

Experience in mentoring other UX designers

Salary Transparency Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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