Program Manager

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Position Overview

Autodesk is transforming how the built environment is designed, delivered, and operated. The Strategy organization plays a central role in defining Autodesk’s long-term direction and ensuring alignment across product, marketing, sales, and customer-facing teams.

We are seeking a Program Manager who can operate at both strategic altitude and day-to-day detail. In this role, you will help drive key strategic initiatives while ensuring the operational heartbeat of the Strategy team stays strong. You’ll partner closely with senior leaders to bring structure, maintain momentum, and ensure teams are prepared, informed, and set up for success.

This role is highly cross-functional and ideal for a Program Manager who is organized, proactive, an excellent communicator, and motivated by enabling teams to collaborate and execute more effectively. This role is for a highly organized, action-oriented operator who keeps high-impact initiatives moving, brings clarity to complex work, and drives alignment across teams

Responsibilities

Help design and reinforce the operating rhythms and practices that keep the organization running smoothly and effectively.

• Own Program Rhythms & Operational Excellence: Lead coordination across major strategy workstreams, shaping planning cycles, meeting cadences, and documentation standards that ensure smooth execution and clear accountability

• Be the Cross-Functional Connector: Serve as the central coordination point across Product, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success – managing dependencies, clarifying owners, and removing blockers to keep initiatives moving quickly and effectively

• Elevate Communication & Alignment: Distill complex program statuses, risks, and decisions into clear, concise communications and executive-level materials (briefs, summaries, presentations) to ensure all stakeholders are informed and aligned on strategic priorities

• Power Strategic Planning: Play a key role in annual and quarterly planning cycles, managing inputs, tracking progress against strategic goals, and coordinating readiness for major initiatives and leadership checkpoints

Qualifications

• 3 to 5+ years of program management, project coordination, business operations, or similar experience

• Experience supporting cross-functional teams in technology, AEC, SaaS, or related environments

• Strong organizational, communication, and follow-through skills

• Ability to work with both strategic leaders and execution teams

• Proficiency with program management tools (Airtable, Miro, etc.)

• Experience supporting strategy, product, or GTM teams is a plus

• Familiarity with AECO workflows or industry concepts is helpful but not required

The Ideal Candidate

• Is highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive

• Is skilled at managing multiple moving parts and keeping programs running smoothly

• Is comfortable navigating different teams and priorities while creating structure and clarity

• Is an effective communicator who can summarize, translate, and drive action

• Is collaborative, approachable, and trusted by leaders and partners alike

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 is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $86,500 and $149,270. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.

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

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