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Prin. User Experience Designer
Autodesk
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Description
The Principal Experience Designer at Autodesk is an innovative futurist, an accountable product owner, a creative thinker, a supportive mentor, a self-motivated team player, and a skilled SCRUM partner all rolled into one. Our Principal Experience Designers use creative problem-solving skills to continually challenge the team to think beyond the expected, and ship high-quality experiences our customers will love. They’re seasoned leaders with expertise in facilitating conversations to solve complex problems.
Reporting to the Director of Experience Design, the Principal Experience Designer will work on strategic initiatives to create cohesive and scalable customer experiences that can be leveraged across product lines. The role will require top-notch interaction design and visual design skills, along with a strategic mindset and ability to collaborate with different product teams. This position is in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Our Team
The Experience Design (XD) practice team provides design leadership and excellence across all product lines at Autodesk. Key disciplines include experience design, visual design, research, content strategy, and program management. Together, we support Autodesk’s growing design community, and share a common goal of customer-centricity, connected experiences across our products, and high quality of work product and employee talent.
How You’ll Spend Your Days
• Leading experience design strategy by evaluating the current competitive landscape, analyzing future trends in related fields, and identifying the intersection of business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities.
• Constructing compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, executive presentations, etc.) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions to gain strategic alignment and encourage innovation within and across the organization.
• Leading collaborative sessions with customers and development partners to explore new design concepts, validate existing designs, and make iterative improvements.
• Participating in the continuous improvement of customer experience tools and processes, and scalable experience design standards.
• Assisting in customer research activities during the planning, strategy development, and early design of solutions.
• Partnering with development teams and business leaders to drive successful implementation of great experiences in our software and services.
• Leading design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges.
Top Five Signs You’re a Great Fit
1. You’re passionate about designing things people love to use.
2. You’re brave in the face of complexity.
3. You’re a top-notch interaction designer with strong visual design skills who embraces the creative process.
4. You’re not afraid to express your ideas, or change your mind when someone has a better one.
5. You have a positive, can-do approach that inspires collaboration and rallies the team toward a common goal.
What You’ll Need to Bring
• 5+ years of professional design experience.
• Ability to visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity, from high-level wireframes or mock-ups to conceptual presentations to highly technical documents and diagrams.
• Ability to present designs to a wide range of audiences, including software development, quality assurance, learning content development, marketing, and sales.
• Up-to-date expertise in human-centered design best practices.
• Experience conducting customer interviews and familiarity with customer research methods.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence.
Bonus Points
• Bachelor’s degree in interaction design, new media design, graphic design, or related field.
• Experience working with architecture and manufacturing products and services.
• Experience designing multichannel experiences.
• Software development background.
• Visual or graphic design background.
• Experience with agile software design methods.
• Experience with Autodesk products.
Does This Sound Like You?
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About Autodesk
As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Experience Design (XD) at Autodesk involves a wide range of creative problem-solving skills to think beyond the expected, and ship high-quality experiences our customers love.
As for benefits (financial, health, and otherwise), Autodesk has once again been listed in the top 100 places to work as ranked by Fortune magazine.