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Position Overview
Autodesk is seeking an operationally focused Director of Talent Development to lead the execution and delivery of our global Talent Development function, ensuring effective program management, cross-functional coordination, operational consistency, and innovation while supporting Autodesk’s evolution as an AI-native organization grounded in our OneORBIT culture.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Talent Development, this leader will oversee Onboarding, Learning Experience Design, Human-Centered Design & Facilitation, and Leadership Development. Serving an enterprise of 16,000 employees globally, the Director will ensure scalable programs are planned, coordinated, and delivered effectively to advance employee growth, leadership capabilities, talent readiness, organizational strategy, innovation, and the integration of AI into how individuals learn, lead, and work.
This role is ideal for a leader who combines deep expertise in learning experience and systems with operational discipline, program management capabilities, and a focus on execution excellence. The successful candidate will have demonstrated success leading in highly matrixed global technology organizations, leveraging learning technologies, skills-based development practices, AI-enabled capabilities, and effective operating models.
Key Responsibilities
Lead Talent Development Operations and Integration
- Translate enterprise talent development priorities into integrated execution plans across onboarding, leadership development, learning experience design, and facilitation capabilities.
- Establish and manage the operating rhythm, governance processes, prioritization frameworks, and resource allocation mechanisms for the Talent Development organization, including support for AI capability-building priorities.
- Drive alignment and integration across talent development teams and partner closely with adjacent People & Places functions, business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders to embed AI-enabled ways of working, innovation practices, and OneORBIT behaviors into talent development priorities.
- Collaborate closely with the Senior Director, Talent Development to define the strategic direction, enterprise stakeholder engagement, organizational alignment, and successful execution of talent development priorities.
Enable Enterprise Capability Building
- Lead the delivery of scalable talent development solutions that support employee growth, leadership effectiveness, talent capability, AI fluency, and organizational performance.
- Ensure talent development offerings remain aligned with business priorities, talent needs, AI capability requirements, innovation goals, and evolving ways of working.
- Partner across the enterprise to support key talent development priorities, including:
- AI native literacy, adoption, and integration into everyday ways of working
- Innovation mindsets and OneORBIT behaviors that enable collaboration, experimentation, and shared accountability
- Skills-based talent practices
- Leadership effectiveness
- New hire productivity acceleration
- Learning technology enablement
Advance Learning Delivery and Capability Development
- Drive the effective implementation and continuous improvement of learning infrastructure, systems, and skill development programs.
- Oversee the integration and adoption of innovative learning tools and technologies to improve personalization, scalability, engagement, and program effectiveness.
- Steward a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, operational discipline, and evidence-based decision-making.
- Research external trends and practices to evaluate opportunities to evolve Autodesk's learning ecosystem through practical and scalable enhancements.
Drive Operational Excellence
- Establish performance metrics and measurement frameworks to assess learning effectiveness, business impact, operational efficiency, and learner outcomes.
- Implement processes and systems that improve execution quality, scalability, consistency, stakeholder experience, and responsible adoption of AI-enabled tools.
- Leverage data, analytics, and insights to continuously improve talent development outcomes and support informed decision-making.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- 10–15 years of progressive experience in talent development, organizational development, leadership development, or related fields.
- Demonstrated experience leading managers and multi-disciplinary teams.
- Deep expertise in talent development with meaningful exposure to organizational development methodologies and practices.
- Proven success leading operations, execution, and large-scale implementation efforts within complex, matrixed organizations.
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide talent development programs for global populations.
- Experience working across multiple learning disciplines, including onboarding, leadership development, facilitation, instructional design, learning technology, and AI-enabled skill development.
Preferred Experience
- Experience implementing or managing modern learning ecosystems, including LMS and LXP platforms, content authoring tools, and digital learning technologies.
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled learning solutions, generative AI tools, learning analytics, and skills intelligence platforms.
- Experience supporting skills-based talent initiatives, organizational capability-building efforts, and enterprise adoption of AI-native ways of working.
- Experience working within technology, software, engineering, or other large-scale global business environments.
- Familiarity with human-centered design methodologies, facilitation practices, and group dynamics frameworks.
- Experience embedding innovation practices, experimentation, and culture into talent development programs and team operating models.
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!
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/
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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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Skills Required
- 10-15 years progressive experience in talent development, organizational development, leadership development, or related fields
- Demonstrated experience leading managers and multi-disciplinary teams
- Deep expertise in talent development and organizational development methodologies and practices
- Proven success leading operations, execution, and large-scale implementation in complex, matrixed organizations
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide talent development programs for global populations
- Experience across onboarding, leadership development, facilitation, instructional design, learning technology, and AI-enabled skill development
- Experience implementing or managing modern learning ecosystems (LMS, LXP, content authoring tools)
- Experience leveraging AI-enabled learning solutions, generative AI tools, learning analytics, and skills intelligence platforms
- Experience supporting skills-based talent initiatives and enterprise adoption of AI-native ways of working
- Experience in technology, software, engineering, or other large-scale global business environments
- Familiarity with human-centered design methodologies, facilitation practices, and group dynamics frameworks
- Experience embedding innovation practices, experimentation, and culture into talent development programs
Autodesk Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Autodesk and has not been reviewed or approved by Autodesk.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away is considered expansive, combining discretionary time off for salaried roles, company holidays/Autodays, and a periodic paid sabbatical. These options provide flexibility beyond standard accrual-based PTO.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Total rewards prominently include RSUs and an employee stock purchase plan with a discount and lookback, alongside annual bonus or commission programs. These elements are available to eligible employees and can materially augment base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support includes reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, IVF/co‑maternity, and fertility benefits, plus dedicated coaching and Cleo resources for parenting and caregiving. These services extend support before, during, and after leave.
Autodesk Insights
What We Do
Autodesk makes software for people who make things. If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. Autodesk gives you the power to make anything. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.
Why Work With Us
Our work is impactful. Our people are innovative. And our culture is inclusive. As our software shapes new solutions to the world’s biggest challenges, you shape your career path. With us, you lead the way in achieving sustainability, resilient communities, and an equitable workforce. Discover #AutodeskLife.
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