Principal Product Manager in Toronto

People Insights & Solution Design (PI-SD) owns the technology portfolio for People & Places (PPL), the HR and workplace organization supporting nearly 15,000 Autodesk employees worldwide. PI-SD builds the experience and intelligence layer above Workday and other systems of record, so the logic and insight generated by Autodesk's people and workplace data stay owned by Autodesk, not captured by vendors.

Today, too much of that experience is fragmented across disconnected tools. We're moving PPL from that fragmented ecosystem to one seamless experience and intelligence layer, and we need Principal Product Managers to own that shift for an assigned domain, from problem definition through delivery, adoption, and ongoing optimization. You will work directly with engineering, experience design teams, PPL Centers of Excellence leaders, and senior leaders to translate ambiguous employee and business problems into product strategy, requirements and measurable outcomes for your domain customers.

This role calls for genuine learning agility, not just product experience. The domains, tools, and skills it requires will keep shifting, especially as AI reshapes what a product team can own directly, and we need people who treat that as fuel, not friction. We're looking for product managers who look around corners: who surface risks and opportunities before they become executive escalations, who set direction and make significant calls with minimal oversight, and whose pace is limited by the organization, not by their own judgment or execution.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy and roadmap for an assigned PPL domain portfolio, for example Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Compensation & Rewards, Employee Support & Services, Workplace & Travel Experience, or PI-SD's AI-enabled products, applying build versus buy principles and the six-dimension evaluation framework used across the PPL portfolio.
• Own visibility across every tool, vendor, and contract in your domain, and drive renewal, divestment, and consolidation decisions backed by business cases through the quarterly PPL leadership technology review.
• Translate ambiguous employee and business problems into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Own the experience and intelligence layer for your domain, keeping Workday and other systems of record as infrastructure while PPL owns the logic built on top of them.
• Partner with ESE engineering teams daily through build and delivery, acting as the accountable product voice from requirements through launch.
• Apply the vendor capture test to every AI capability in your domain: is it trained on data Autodesk owns and controls, or does it represent vendor capture of Autodesk's logic?
• Use AI directly in your own research, analysis, prioritization, and execution.
• Build trust and alignment across technical and business stakeholders, and drive decisions without relying on direct authority.
• Drive adoption of what you build, including bringing stakeholders who previously owned their own tech decisions through the transition to a centralized model with trust intact.
• Define and own the KPIs for your domain, connecting product-level metrics to the broader PPL talent strategy, and build the dashboards and leading indicators that make performance visible before problems compound.
• Identify portfolio risks, redundancies, and opportunities early, and bring recommendations, not open questions, to leadership before they surface as escalations.
• Build new domain and technical fluency quickly as the portfolio and tools evolve, rather than waiting for structured training.

Minimum Qualifications

• Licence en gestion d’entreprise, ressources humaines, systèmes d’information, informatique ou dans un domaine connexe, ou expérience pratique équivalente.
• Au moins 8 ans d’expérience en gestion de produit, ayant pris en charge un produit ou une plateforme de la définition à la livraison et à l’exploitation.
• Expérience de travail avec un encadrement minimal, capable de définir une orientation et d’influencer les parties prenantes de haut niveau pour prendre de manière indépendante des décisions importantes concernant le produit.
• Expérience de collaboration directe avec des équipes d’ingénierie pour définir le périmètre, l’enchaînement et la livraison des travaux techniques.
• Capacité avérée à opérer dans des environnements ambigus où les exigences et les responsabilités ne sont pas encore pleinement définies.
• Expérience avérée dans l’acquisition rapide de nouveaux domaines, outils ou compétences techniques, et leur mise en œuvre dans le respect de délais réels.
• Solides compétences en communication écrite et orale, avec la capacité de traduire des détails techniques ou de processus complexes à la fois pour un public métier et un public technique.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expérience avec HR ou people technology platforms, for example Workday, Eightfold, or learning and talent systems.
• Expérience dans la création ou le développement à grande échelle de produits d’entreprise internes, de plateformes de données ou de services d’intégration.
• Expérience avec des plateformes RH ou de gestion des ressources humaines, par exemple Workday, Eightfold, ou des systèmes de formation et de gestion des talents.
• Expérience dans l’utilisation d’IA générative ou d’outils assistés par l’IA directement dans les flux de travail de gestion de produit.
• Expérience au sein d’une organisation produit à forte autonomie et à rythme soutenu, où les chefs de produit seniors opèrent avec une grande autonomie et sont censés identifier de manière proactive les problèmes et les opportunités plutôt que d’attendre qu’on leur attribue des missions.

Salary transparency: Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $124,700 and $182,875. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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