Senior Director, Product Management, AEC Data

Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking an exceptional product leader to shape the future of how the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry creates, connects, and uses design and engineering data.

As Sr. Director of Product Management for AEC Data, you will lead the strategy for a portfolio of data products and capabilities powering Autodesk Forma Industry Cloud and our broader AEC ecosystem. This is an opportunity to shape a critical foundation for Autodesk's next generation of AEC products, unlocking new ways for customers and developers to work with connected design and engineering data.

We are looking for a leader with outstanding product judgment, deep experience building data products and platforms, and a proven ability to translate complex technology into customer and business value. You will lead a team of product managers and work across Autodesk's product and engineering organizations to drive strategy, alignment, and results.

This is a global, hybrid role based in the US, Canada, or UK, reporting to the VP of AEC Data, with travel up to 25%.

Primary Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Execution

• Drive the strategy for context-rich AEC data capabilities that connect domain entities, relationships, and semantics, enabling intelligent applications, connected workflows, and AI-powered experiences.
• Own product priorities and roadmaps, balancing near-term customer value with long-term platform investments.

• Lead product discovery, ensuring teams focus on meaningful customer problems and validate opportunities before committing to solutions.

• Establish clear success metrics and drive accountability for product adoption, customer outcomes, and business impact.

• Make strategic product and investment trade-offs, influencing executive stakeholders and cross-functional leaders.

Data Products & Platforms

• Lead the development of data products and platform capabilities that make complex AEC data accessible, interoperable, and reusable across applications and workflows.

• Apply strong product thinking to data models, APIs, and services, treating them as products with clear customers, value propositions, and measurable outcomes.

• Partner with engineering leadership to balance customer needs, technical feasibility, scalability, and long-term architectural evolution.

• Drive adoption of shared data capabilities across Autodesk products, customers, and developer ecosystems.

Leadership & Influence

• Build and lead a high-performing product management organization, developing product leaders and establishing a culture of strong product judgment, customer focus, and accountability.

• Establish rigorous prioritization, continuous discovery, and outcome-driven product management practices.

• Lead through influence across Autodesk's product, engineering, and business organizations to align priorities and deliver results

• Engage with customers, partners, and senior executives to communicate product vision and shape strategic direction.

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of software product management experience, including leadership of complex enterprise software, platform, or data products.

• 5+ years leading and developing product management teams.

• Demonstrated success building product data platforms or capabilities that model, connect, manage, and expose complex domain data across applications, including domain data models, APIs, and shared data services. 

• Proven ability to define product strategy, identify customer opportunities, make investment trade-offs, and deliver measurable business outcomes. 

• Strong product discovery skills and experience driving products from concept through adoption and growth. 

• Ability to translate complex technical capabilities into compelling customer value and business opportunities. 

• Exceptional communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex product strategies, influence executive decisions, and inspire alignment across technical, business, and customer audiences. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience building data products and capabilities involving complex domain-specific data (e.g., engineering, design, manufacturing), including context graphs, knowledge graphs, semantic data models, or similar approaches to representing and connecting data relationships. 

• Understanding of AEC workflows, BIM, and industry data standards such as IFC. 

• Experience building platform ecosystems and driving adoption across multiple product teams or external developers. 

• Familiarity with domain modeling, interoperability, data lifecycle management, and AI-enabled product capabilities. 

• MBA or equivalent business leadership experience. 

About Autodesk

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Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

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. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.