Senior Manager & Sr Principal Experience Designer

Job Requisition ID #

25WD85123

Position Overview

This is your chance to join an awesome and empowered team who is passionate about creating impact and has a lot of fun doing it together! With Autodesk Forma, we are on a mission for a better world - literally - by radically improving how the built environment meets the needs of humanity and the climate. By combining AI, 3D, cloud collaboration and automation, customers can find more sustainable, affordable and efficient ways to solve the rising challenges brought on by growing cities, climate change, and global conflict.

As a Senior Manager for Experience Design, in Autodesk Forma, you will discover how we can support a completely new creative process for architects and urban developers. This means helping our users create 3D models by using data-driven insights to make smart design decisions in an easy-to-use and modern web application. You will work closely with product teams in Oslo, Norway, and collaborate closely with designers and product teams in the US and Canada.

About us

We’re on a mission to help design better cities. According to the UN, more than 90% of future population growth will happen in cities. To respond to this trend in a sustainable way, AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) industry needs a new generation of software tools and disruptive workflows.

We’re building software to help architects, urban planners, and real estate developers find the smartest and most sustainable ways to unlock the potential of any building site. Outcome-based design, which is at the foundation of our product, takes into account living quality, environmental impact, and project profitability.

Spacemaker was acquired by Autodesk in 2020, to be the seed of the next generation of a cloud-based, connected platform for the AEC industry: Forma. We have an extremely exciting journey ahead of us, building out a platform that connects phases and verticals. This is an inspiring journey you don´t want to miss!

We operate as a fundamentally agile organization, organized to give teams the autonomy to innovate at speed while staying aligned to create a world-class offering. We are organized into cross-functional teams, with software and machine learning engineers working closely with product management and design.

Our way of working

We operate as a fundamentally agile organization. Our teams have the autonomy needed to innovate at speed while staying aligned. We empower our teams to determine how to develop their solutions by supporting decision-making with a bottom-up approach. We are organized in cross-functional teams, with software and machine-learning engineers collaborating with product managers and designers in each team. In our organization, we strongly believe in servant leadership and team accountability. We also see great strengths in allowing you to define how you work (and where you work from) to be most successful. Our teams collaborate across time zones and continents. To learn more about what we believe make an organization great, look at our product core beliefs.

As a Senior Manager for Experience Design, you will:

· Manage a team of Experience Designers, Visual Designers and Content Designers across Norway and Eastern US & Canada.

· Drive team growth through recruitment and by building a center of excellence within your experience design team to provide the organization with what is needed to deliver an exceptional product experience.

· Work with your team and other lead designers, including experience research leads, to plan and execute projects and initiatives. Both within your product line group and outbound in cross-product collaborations.

· Facilitate a process for your team that ensures that customer feedback is collected and analyzed through and through our continuous product deployment process.

· Plan and support the growth and development of the team and its team members through . mentoring and building effective working relationships.

· Work closely with the leader and leadership team for Experience Design within your product line group and contribute to way of working to empower teams and other leaders realizing the Forma Industry Cloud AEC solution platform vision.

As a Sr. Principal Experience Designer, you will:

· Drive and oversee the design process in team projects, ensuring a human-centered approach, guiding and mentoring the team towards effective use of the design process.

· Gather, use and synthesizes industry data and research, identify gaps and take proactive measures to inform own design process and others.

· Translate complex user needs into design concepts in close collaboration with both local and global product teams and shape and influence broader design strategies, leveraging deep understanding of the des