Principal User Experience Designer

Job Requisition ID # 26WD96290 Principal UX Designer, GTM Agentic Experiences  Position Overview  The Principal Designer on our Digital Support team at Autodesk is a strategic, systems-level thinker who drives high-quality, journey-centric experiences across products and teams. Our team is responsible for connecting our front to back customer success experiences through GTM technology solutions. In this role, you will lead the definition and evolution of agentic and multi-modal experience systems that enable consistent, scalable, and intelligent interactions across Autodesk’s GTM and product surfaces.  You will operate in highly ambiguous, emerging problem spaces, shaping how conversational agents, UI, and personalization come together to form cohesive user experiences. This role requires deep expertise in systems and interaction design, strong cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to influence direction across distributed teams.  You will help establish a platform design approach that enables teams to independently deliver agentic experiences while maintaining consistency, clarity, and trust across the customer journey and user touchpoints.  You’ll join a highly collaborative team working on complex and high-impact experience challenges, partnering with product, engineering, and machine learning teams to define the future of Autodesk.  **To be considered, you must provide your resume and portfolio with access/password when applying. **   Responsibilities  Lead vision and strategy for agentic and multi-modal experience systems, ensuring solutions scale across products, platforms, and GTM surfaces  Define and evolve interaction patterns and frameworks for chat, UI, and hybrid experiences, including agent behavior, task execution, and system feedback  Independently frame ambiguous problems and drive complex initiatives from definition through delivery, particularly in emerging areas such as AI-driven and personalized experiences  Partner closely with product, engineering, research, machine learning, and platform teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end experiences that integrate agent capabilities into real workflows  Shape cross-functional roadmaps by synthesizing research, customer needs, and business objectives into scalable design strategies  Raise the bar for design quality across interaction, usability, and system coherence, 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 best practices across the organization    Minimum Qualifications  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 problems  Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across product, engineering, and design, using strong communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management to drive clarity and decisions in complex, cross-team environments  Demonstrated ability to shape product or platform direction through design-led strategy  Proven ability to lead through influence in highly cross-functional environments, including with senior stakeholders  Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, multi-modal experience design, and 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  Strong design judgment grounded in user needs, business context, and scalable principles  Curiosity and adaptability, with experience exploring or integrating AI-enabled tools and workflows into design practice    Preferred Qualifications  Experience designing agentic, conversational, or AI-driven experiences, including considerations of trust, clarity, and user control  Experience working on horizontal, or shared capabilities that span multiple products or teams  Experience designing multi-modal interactions that combine UI, automation, and conversational interfaces  Familiarity using design systems and component-based design at scale  Experience incorporating personalization or adaptive systems into user experiences  Proven ability to operate effectively in environments with distributed ownership and competing priorities  Experience partnering with product and analytics teams to define success metrics and evaluate impact  Experience designing for B2B, enterprise, or te Learn More About Autodesk Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made. We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world. When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us! Benefits From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/ Salary transparency Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. 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