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Principal Product Manager - Flow Studio (GenAI Products)
Location: East Coast Canada or US (Remote)
About Autodesk Media & Entertainment
Autodesk empowers creators and studios around the world with tools for digital content creation, visual effects, animation, and production.
Generative AI is rapidly reshaping how entertainment is made, and Autodesk Flow Studio is at the center of that transformation. We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to help bring the next generation of AI-powered creative workflows to artists and studios worldwide. This Product Lead will work very closely with the development team from Europe.
The Opportunity
As the Principal Product Manager for Flow Studio, you’ll help turn product strategy into action. You’ll connect teams across Autodesk, translate emerging GenAI opportunities and customer needs into clear priorities, and help drive products and capabilities from strategy through launch.
You’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, UX, Marketing, Sales, Legal, Trusted AI, and customers—bringing clarity to complex initiatives, removing blockers, and keeping teams aligned in a fast-moving AI landscape.
This is an opportunity to work hands-on with emerging generative AI technology and help shape how it transforms visual effects and content creation.
What You’ll Do
- Turn strategy into execution: Translate Flow Studio’s product strategy and emerging GenAI opportunities into clear roadmaps, priorities, decisions, and action.
- Drive roadmap alignment: Keep priorities, dependencies, risks, owners, and next steps visible across teams.
- Bring the customer perspective: Engage with customers and partners to understand how AI is changing creative workflows and turn feedback, usage patterns, and market signals into actionable insights.
- Stay ahead of the GenAI landscape: Experiment hands-on with leading AI tools and track new models, competitors, workflows, and capabilities to identify implications for Flow Studio.
- Orchestrate across teams: Coordinate Product, Engineering, UX, Marketing, Sales, Legal, Trusted AI, and other stakeholders to keep initiatives moving.
- Support successful launches: Partner with go-to-market teams on positioning, readiness, enablement, dependencies, and launch execution.
- Remove blockers: Navigate a large, matrixed organization, surface risks early, drive decisions, and escalate when needed.
- Communicate with impact: Build executive-ready presentations and narratives that simplify complex product and AI topics and drive alignment.
What You Bring
- 8+ years of experience in product management, product operations, program leadership, or a related role.
- Strong knowledge of generative AI and AI-powered creative workflows, with hands-on experience using modern image, video, animation, performance, AI filmmaking and AI production tools. .
- Experience bringing AI/ML or other technically complex products from concept through production and launch.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Legal, governance, and customer-facing teams.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to translate strategy into actionable plans, manage competing priorities, and make pragmatic trade-offs.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills, including executive-level storytelling.
- A highly organized, proactive working style and a track record of creating clarity and momentum in fast-moving environments.
- Commitment to responsible AI development and effective partnership with Legal, Trusted AI, and governance teams.
- Media & Entertainment, VFX, animation, gaming, or creative technology experience is required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Flow Studio, Autodesk Production Management, Maya, Unreal Engine, Blender, or similar creative production tools
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and large, matrixed organizations.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, analytics, 3D graphics, or rendering pipelines.
Help shape the future of AI-powered entertainment production.
Join Flow Studio and help turn rapidly evolving AI capabilities into creative workflows that artists and studios can put to work.
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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/
Salary transparency
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.
Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification
This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in product management, product operations, program leadership, or a related role
- Strong knowledge of generative AI and AI-powered creative workflows, including hands-on experience with modern image, video, animation, performance, AI filmmaking, and AI production tools
- Experience bringing AI/ML or other technically complex products from concept through production and launch
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Legal, governance, and customer-facing teams
- Strong product judgment and ability to translate strategy into actionable plans, manage competing priorities, and make pragmatic trade-offs
- Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and executive-level storytelling skills
- Highly organized and proactive working style with a track record of creating clarity and momentum in fast-moving environments
- Commitment to responsible AI development and effective partnership with Legal, Trusted AI, and governance teams
- Media and Entertainment, VFX, animation, gaming, or creative technology experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with Flow Studio, Autodesk Production Management, Maya, Unreal Engine, Blender, or similar creative production tools
- Experience with Agile/Scrum and large, matrixed organizations
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, analytics, 3D graphics, or rendering pipelines
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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