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Director, Experience Design, PDMS - CanadaWe're hiring a Director of Experience Design within our Product Design and Manufacturing Solutions (PDMS) organization. This person will lead experience design across Autodesk's core manufacturing, design, and data management tools, supporting engineers and other manufacturing professionals across design, manufacturing, and operations workflows. This role will focus primarily on continuously shipped cloud and SaaS-based solutions, and it will focus on the convergence of solutions in the Autodesk Fusion Platform. role reporting to the of Experience Experience Design organization This leader will be play a key role in evolving our products and services from best-in-class applications into AI-first, agentic, and deeply integrated experiences aligned with Autodesk's Manufacturing Industry Cloud vision - both elevating the tools millions rely upon today and re-imagining how manufacturing companies evolve over time. The ideal candidate will be a true agent of change, thrives in fast-paced environments, inspires cross-functional teams, and excels at translating complex technical challenges into actionable value for our customers. You will champion innovation, rapid prototyping, continuous improvement, and quality of outcomes, while helping develop and execute the experience vision, strategy, and operating model across the full product development lifecycle - from concept through design and make and operations.This role is supporting our R&D; center-of-excellence in Toronto, ON, Canada. We support a hybrid work environment, with flexible working hours, and the role can be based within an hour drive to Toronto. Travel requirements are approximately 10%.



Responsibilities champion a multi-year user experience design vision for Autodesk's Establish a clear north-star for unification, modernization, and experience cohesion across products, solutions and platformsPartner with executive leadership to align experience strategy with Autodesk's Manufacturing Industry Cloud and broader business strategyDrive experience consistency and scalability through design systems, shared patterns, critical user journeys, and foundational UX capabilitiesBuild, lead, and inspire a high-performing global team of user experience professionals with broad skillsets, including research and content design; develop a level of proficiency across these skillsets within each employeeCoach and develop senior design managers; establish clear charters, expectations, and growth paths, especially those focusing on role transformation through AI.Represent the voice of user experience design in executive forums and strategic planning Minimum Qualifications 12+ years of professional experience in user experience (UX), product design, or experience design, with 5+ years leading large, multi-layered teams or portfoliosProven experience leading design at scale across complex, multi-product ecosystems Demonstrated success driving large-scale experience unification and modernization efforts Experience building or evolving AI-assisted or agentic product experiences Strong executive communication skills-able to distill complexity and influence at all levels of the organization and present a clear point-of-view to senior leadershipExperience working in highly collaborative Agile/Scrum environments Preferred Qualifications Experience designing qualified tools for manufacturing industries, CAD modeling or highly technical enterprise domainsExperience designing multi-platform ecosystems (desktop, cloud, services); preference for experience in SaaS-based software systems with AI capabilities

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📌 Director, Experience Design, PDMS - Canada (Toronto)
🏢 Autodesk
📍 Toronto