Chief of Staff, AEC XA

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Position Overview:

We’re hiring a Chief of Staff for AEC Experience & Analytics (XA) to partner closely with the VP of Experience & Analytics and enable the team’s success across Autodesk’s Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) product portfolio. This person will be a senior individual contributor and strategic execution leader who will help the team shape, operationalize, and deliver the future of Autodesk’s AEC user experiences. This person will combine strong product thinking, operational excellence, and cross-functional influence. The Chief of Staff acts as a force multiplier for the VP and the XA leadership team—driving clarity, alignment, and momentum across experience strategy, personalization, insight, and ways of working.

The role sits at the intersection of design, product, data, AI, and research, with a clear mandate to help translate ambitious experience vision into shipped, measurable outcomes. This is a critical executive-level role reporting to the VP of Experience & Analytics and serving as a senior member of the AEC Experience & Analytics Leadership team. You’ll collaborate closely with senior leaders across design, engineering, product, and business to evolve our team’s strategy in alignment with our agentic product vision.

You’ll play a key role in shaping the future of how professionals plan, design, build, and operate—through AI-powered, conversational, and agentic experiences. You’ll be instrumental in transforming our product ecosystem to deliver intelligent, unified experiences that delight and empower millions of users.

This role can be 100% remote in California or Massachusetts and will report to our VP, User Experience.

Travel requirements will be approximately 20%.

Responsibilities

Strategic Partner & Advisor to the VP of XA

• Act as a trusted thought partner to the VP of Experience & Analytics

• Support strategy development, prioritization, and decision-making

• Represent the VP in cross-functional forums when appropriate

• Develop clear, executive-ready narratives, operating reviews, and communications

Drive Experience Strategy into Product Delivery

• Help operationalize the shift from feature-based development to outcome- and workflow-driven experiences

• Coordinate cross-functional execution toward simplified, integrated, agentic user experiences

• Ensure initiatives focused on growth, onboarding, trust, and engagement are embedded in experience strategy

• Track progress, dependencies, and impact across the experience portfolio

Enable UX Quality, Craft, and Design Systems

• Drive adoption and evolution of design frameworks (e.g., Weave) in partnership with design and product leaders

• Support operational mechanisms that elevate quality and craft (critiques, guidelines, experience reviews)

• Ensure joyful moments—color, illustration, motion, tone—are intentionally designed and consistently applied

• Help define success metrics for experience quality and cohesion

Support Personalization & AI-Driven Experiences

• Act as a connector across design, data, AI, and product teams to enable personalization at scale

• Support delivery of personalized experiences starting with Assistant and evolving agentic products

• Clarify ownership, milestones, and dependencies across complex initiatives

• Translate technical and data-heavy work into clear, decision-ready insights

Scale Insight to Inform Prioritization

• Partner with Research and Analytics leaders to scale insight through automation and AI

• Help embed personas and critical user journeys (CUJs) into planning and execution

• Promote participatory research practices that increase cross-functional understanding

• Ensure insights directly inform prioritization and are clearly communicated to stakeholders

Operational Excellence & Program Leadership

• Partnering closely with the XA Design Operations Manager, own XA planning rhythms, OKRs, dashboards, and operating cadences and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through execution

• Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes, and tooling to increase scale and quality

• Partner with other Chiefs of Staff and Strategy & Ops leaders across Autodesk

Culture, Ways of Working, and Talent Enablement

• Support an inclusive, respectful, and high-trust XA culture

• Enable new AI-driven ways of working that impr