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Senior User Experience Designer
Autodesk
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Position Overview
The Senior Experience Designer at Autodesk is an innovative futurist, an accountable product owner, a creative thinker, a self-motivated team player, and a skilled partner all rolled into one. Our Senior 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.
Reporting to the User Experience Manager, the Senior Experience Designer will work on strategic initiatives to create cohesive and scalable customer experiences that can be leveraged across the website. The role will require top-notch interaction design skills, along with a strategic mindset and ability to collaborate with many different teams, including product management, marketing, content strategy, and engineering. This position is in San Francisco, CA, USA.
Online Experience (OEX) Team @ Autodesk
The Online Experience (OEX) team provides design leadership and excellence across all web and web related experiences 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 global sites, and high quality of work product and employee talent.
How You’ll Spend Your Days
• Leading experience design strategy by evaluating and identifying the intersection of business needs, customer needs, and technical opportunities
• Leading design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges
• Constructing compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, etc.) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions to gain strategic alignment and encourage innovation within and across the organization
• Meeting with customers and development partners to validate 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
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 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 invites collaboration
What You'll Need to Bring
• 4-7+ 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
• Familiarity with customer research methods
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex ideas to their essence
Bonus Points
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in interaction design, new media 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
About Autodesk
With Autodesk software, you have the power to Make Anything. The future of making is here, bringing with it radical changes in the way things are designed, made, and used. It’s disrupting every industry: architecture, engineering, and construction; manufacturing; and media and entertainment. With the right knowledge and tools, this disruption is your opportunity.
Our software is used by everyone - from design professionals, engineers and architects to digital artists, students and hobbyists. We constantly explore new ways to integrate all dimensions of diversity across our employees, customers, partners, and communities. Our ultimate goal is to expand opportunities for anyone to imagine, design, and make a better world.