Hybrid Principal User Experience Designer

at Autodesk

• Job title: Principal User Experience Designer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $133,300 - $215,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Washington, United States

About the role

• Principal UX Designer at Autodesk shaping customer success in the post-purchase journey. Driving high-quality experiences through systems-level thinking and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead vision and strategy for complex, journey-driven systems and workflows, ensuring solutions scale across products, platforms, and services
• Shape cross-functional roadmaps by synthesizing research, customer needs, and business objectives into clear, actionable design strategies
• Independently frame ambiguous problems and drive complex initiatives from definition through delivery, navigating tradeoffs and incomplete information
• Partner closely with product, engineering, research, and content to deliver cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences
• Raise the bar for design quality across interaction, usability, and visual craft, influencing standards beyond immediate project teams
• Mentor and coach designers across teams, elevating craft, systems thinking, and strategic judgment at a program or organizational level
• Explore and apply AI-driven workflows and emerging technologies to improve both the design process and customer experience
• Communicate complex ideas clearly to senior stakeholders, contributing to shared understanding, alignment, and design best practices across the organization

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing and delivering digital experiences within complex, multi-product ecosystems
• Deep expertise in systems design, interaction design, and information architecture, applied to large-scale products
• Demonstrated ability to shape product direction and organizational alignment through design-led strategy
• Exceptional design judgment grounded in strong principles, customer insight, and business context
• Proven ability to lead through influence in highly cross-functional environments, including with senior stakeholders
• Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, end-to-end experience design, and sustained impact across multiple teams or initiatives
• Experience mentoring designers and raising the quality bar across teams or programs
• Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where problems and constraints are often ill-defined
• Curiosity and adaptability, with experience exploring or integrating AI-enabled tools and workflows into design practice.

Benefits

• From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work.