Position Overview

Job Requisition ID # 26WD99517 Position Overview Autodesk Research is hiring a Senior Research Program Manager to lead a portfolio of forward‑looking construction research programs. You will sit at the intersection of research strategy, construction domain expertise, AI‑enabled workflows, and cross‑functional program execution — helping teams move from ambiguous opportunity areas to structured plans, measurable progress, and strategic impact.

Autodesk

Research explores advances that may shape products and customer workflows five to ten years out, investigating how intelligent, agentic, and AI‑driven systems can transform how ideas move from concept to reality. This is not a traditional Technical Program Manager role.

Research Program

Managers here are horizontally focused connectors: they organize programs, manage ambiguity, coordinate stakeholders, and link research work to Autodesk outcomes.

Responsibilities

Lead program management for construction research initiative

Manage a program spanning multiple related projects, experiments, prototypes, and partnerships across complex, extended timelines.

Build and maintain integrated program plans across workstreams, defining scope, objectives, milestones, dependencies, and owners

Align the portfolio with Research priorities, Autodesk’s long‑term construction vision, available capacity, and strategic outcomes

Help teams prioritize when opportunities compete for attention, staffing, or funding

Coordinate across researchers, engineers, designers, product teams, external partners, and leadership

Manage the research lifecycle

Help teams move through prospect framing, discovery, experimentation,



validation, and transition — keeping work visible and actionable without forcing it into a rigid delivery model.

Establish lightweight governance for planning, reviews, decisions, and risk tracking

Ensure research artifacts, learnings, demos, and decision records are findable and reusable

Support transition planning when research is ready to inform product strategy, incubation, or future investment.

Partner with other Research Program Managers to improve shared practices, tools, and operating rhythms

Bring construction domain fluency

You don’t need to be the deepest expert in the room, but you must understand construction well enough to ask informed questions, confidently engage with partners and connect research to real industry needs.

Relevant areas: Project delivery phases: preconstruction, planning, estimating, scheduling, procurement, field execution, and handover BIM/VDC workflows, model coordination, construction documentation, site data, and connected data environments Reality capture, digital twins, construction analytics, and AI‑enabled decision support Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, Navisworks, Forma, Tandem, or adjacent AEC platforms

Coordinate AI and emerging technology research

Support programs exploring how AI, generative AI, intelligent agents,



simulation, and connected workflows can transform construction.

Help researchers structure AI‑enabled workstreams with clear milestones, experiments, and evaluation plans

Coordinate research integrating BIM, schedules, reality capture, field data, and other construction information sources

Translate emerging technical work into clear narratives, decision briefs, and next‑step recommendations

Use AI tools in your own practice to improve planning, synthesis, documentation, and follow‑through

Drive accountability and communicate clearly

Create enough structure to help people do their best work — without slowing research down.

Maintain dashboards, milestone trackers, decision logs, risk registers, and stakeholder updates

Identify blockers, ambiguous ownership, unresolved decisions, and priority conflicts

Facilitate planning sessions, research reviews, workshops, and decision forums

Prepare crisp executive summaries, narratives, and briefing materials for senior leaders

Manage resources and external engagements

Track program budgets, planned expenditures, and resource needs in partnership with leadership and finance

Support annual and quarterly planning, goal‑setting, and resource prioritization

Coordinate external collaborations, customer engagements, and academic or industry partnerships

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years in program management, project management, research operations, construction technology, or a related field

Experience managing complex, multi-workstream programs with diverse stakeholders, dependencies, and deliverables

📌 Senior Research Program Manager, Construction (Winnipeg)
🏢 Autodesk
📍 Winnipeg