Principal User Experience Designer

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term experience vision for the workflows across mobile, web, and agentic surfaces
• Own the end-to-end experience strategy ensuring usability, scalability, data clarity, and workflow efficiency in complex field environments
• Lead design work from discovery through implementation, setting a high bar for craft, clarity, and execution quality
• Influence product roadmap and prioritization by identifying opportunity areas, workflow gaps, and systemic user challenges within progress tracking
• Partner closely with product managers, engineering leads, and researchers to align on direction, drive informed tradeoffs, and ensure feasibility without compromising experience quality
• Guide and elevate design quality through critique, mentorship, and establishing best practices for workflow-driven and field-based experiences
• Create compelling artifacts including journey maps, system models, prototypes, and vision concepts to align stakeholders and drive clarity in decision-making
• Represent design in cross-functional and leadership discussions, clearly articulating vision, tradeoffs, and measurable user impact

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional UX or product design experience, with demonstrated impact leading complex, workflow-heavy product areas
• Strong portfolio showcasing ownership of end-to-end experiences for mobile and web products, including complex operational or data-driven workflows
• Proven ability to define experience strategy and influence product direction beyond feature-level design
• Deep expertise in translating complex user needs and business requirements into scalable, intuitive interaction models
• Strong proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with experience presenting to cross-functional and leadership stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and drive alignment in fast-paced, collaborative environments
• Experience designing enterprise or workflow-heavy SaaS products
• Experience designing for construction tech, field-based, operational, or mobile-first users
• Experience designing agentic or AI-assisted interaction models
• Experience shaping or contributing to design systems that support complex workflows
• Experience mentoring designers and elevating design standards within a team
• 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!
• Salary transparency
• Diversity & Belonging
• We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/diversity-and-belonging
• Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
• Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).

Additional Information

Job Requisition ID # 26WD98341 Position Overview We're seeking a Principal UX Designer to join our Field Delivery team to own key workflows across mobile, web, and emerging agentic interfaces used in the construction field. This is a highly strategic individual contributor role focused on defining the long-term vision, experience architecture, and design quality for our most critical field workflows. You will shape how construction teams capture, understand, and act on projects in dynamic, real-world environments. As a principal-level designer, you will operate with high autonomy, partnering closely with product, engineering, and research leadership to align on strategy, define durable experience frameworks, and elevate the craft and systems thinking of the broader team. Curiosity and excitement about exploring new interaction models, including agentic experiences, are essential, as are design details and willingness to be "in the weeds".

Your Match

How well this role fits your profile.

Company Intel

What employees say

Worked at Autodesk? Share your experience