Senior Director, Product Management in Toronto

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Director of Product Management to join our Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Platform Data team and advance our mission to reimagine the way customers capture, utilize, and manage BIM data. This opportunity is for you if you are excited by the idea of empowering the AEC industry by transforming how AEC professionals use data to capture knowledge, inform decisions, and deliver projects.

As a Senior Director of Product Management in Autodesk's AEC Design Platform Data team, you will be at the forefront of building the AEC Data Model, the next generation of data capabilities for the Autodesk Forma Industry Cloud. In this role you’ll foster relationships with some of the industry’s most influential AEC companies. You’ll work with leaders from Revit, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Autodesk Platform Services, Autodesk Construction Solutions, and Forma Design to define and drive the strategy for data in AEC. Reporting to the VP of AEC Data, you’ll lead a product team focused on creating the data infrastructure which will power Autodesk’s AEC products. As this is a global role, you will work across multiple time zones and travel for in-person meetings such as conferences, team offsites, and customer visits. This position is hybrid remote and can be based in the US or Canada or the UK.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy: Lead and ensure a holistic, cohesive product vision and strategy for AEC data that powers Autodesk Forma industry cloud. Partner closely with business strategy and sales to align on market opportunities. Drive focus on what will make the most positive impact on customer needs, adoption, and business impact. Create and maintain roadmaps focused on customer outcomes, managing the plan from concept through execution, delivery, and post-release adoption and business success. Ensure the establishment and tracking against strategic objectives, key results, and product health KPIs.
• Leadership & Team Development: Attract, scale, and retain a high-performing team of Product Managers and Product Owners to drive impact across a geographically dispersed team of internal partners and stakeholders. Ensure cohesiveness and excellence in the practice of product management. Be a role model for communication with customers and internal stakeholders, from telling our strategy, to facilitating alignment towards shared goals, and handling challenging situations. Model collaborative leadership across organizational boundaries to establish self and team as trusted partners across Autodesk.
• Customer Engagement: Develop and manage strong and lasting relationships with customers across firms of all sizes and across the globe. Articulate product value to customers while differentiating products from competitive offerings. Represent the AEC Data Model products/services and broader Autodesk strategy at customer sites, conferences, and other external venues.
• Product Discovery & Product Delivery: Ensure excellence in product discovery to identify key customer problems that are most critical to solve, quickly understand value and viability risks, and work with the engineering leadership to successfully deliver solutions that address these problems. Ensure solid decision making for product decisions that is fueled by data, both qualitative and quantitative. Work with Autodesk product teams to prioritize requirements, make trade-offs, and support release plans. Foster alignment with stakeholders across the company and maximize joint outcomes.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product management.
• 5+ years experience managing a team of product managers.
• Passion for data and the impact digitalization can have on customers.
• Proven track record of successfully developing and launching software products.
• Experience leading and developing high-performing teams on sizeable cross-functional and cross-organizational projects.
• Proficiency in utilizing data and analytics to make well-informed decisions and develop business strategies.
• Experience and comfort managing stakeholders, risk, and uncertainty.
• Mastery of taking very complex ideas and conveying them in a concise and impactful manner.
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation abilities to effectively communicate product strategy and vision to both executive and customer stakeholders.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with a global team and travel for work up to 25% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA degree.
• Deep understanding of AEC industry technology.

Benefits

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

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.