Senior Business Operations Manager

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In-Office or Remote
Big Data • Cloud • Digital Media • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Industrial
Autodesk is a global leader in design and make technology that helps innovators everywhere solve today's challenges.
The Role

Job Requisition ID #

26WD96247

Position Overview

As Senior Business Operations Manager for Autodesk’s Digital Experience & Commerce (DEC) organization, you will play a critical role in driving operational excellence, executive readiness, and cross-functional alignment across a highly visible, performance-driven function. Reporting to the Director of Business Operations & Strategy, this role partners closely with the DEC Leadership Team and senior stakeholders across Worldwide Marketing, Growth & eCommerce (GET), Finance, Sales, Product, and Customer Success.
 

You will be trusted to turn complexity into clarity—translating strategy, data, and cross-functional initiatives into concise, executive-ready narratives that inform decisions and move the business forward. This role is ideal for a structured, data-led operator who thrives in ambiguity, operates with high ownership, and embodies Autodesk’s One ORBIT behaviors in how they work.
 

Responsibilities
 

Business Operations & Executive Enablement

  • Drive the operational rhythm of the business, partnering with the Director of Business Operations & Strategy

  • Operations across annual and quarterly planning, execution tracking, and leadership reporting

  • Own the creation of executive-ready presentations and narratives, distilling complex initiatives into clear, decision-oriented stories used in QBRs, CEO GPRs, CMO updates, leadership forums, and planning cycles

  • Ensure senior leaders receive accurate, timely, and insight-driven updates,proactively surfacing risks and trade-offs with no surprises

  • Operate with accountability and urgency, demonstrating Relentless focus on outcomes and execution

Executive Narrative & Storytelling

  • Translate performance data, portfolio updates, risks, and dependencies into clear executive storylines with defined problem statements, options, and recommendations

  • Maintain high standards of visual clarity, analytical rigor, and structure in all leadership materials

  • Ensure alignment between strategy, metrics, financials, and roadmap commitments, reinforcing trust and transparency

  • Act with Brave decision-making—challenging assumptions and elevating discussions when clarity is needed

Performance Metrics & Reporting

  • Maintain and evolve DEC dashboards and reporting across revenue, funnel health, experimentation, and operational KPIs

  • Support the development of executive scorecards and performance summaries that connect outcomes to strategy

  • Track and support OKR planning and progress, ensuring focus on the highest-impact priorities

  • Partner with Portfolio Management to ensure accurate initiative tracking and visibility using tools such as Airtable

  • Apply Ingenious thinking to continuously improve how insights are generated an shared.

Employee Engagement & Organizational Health

  • Partner with DEC leadership to strengthen clarity, engagement, and accountability across the organization

  • Support the design and execution of all-hands, offsites, town halls, and alignment sessions that connect strategy to execution

  • Translate strategic priorities into narratives that clearly link individual contributions to DEC’s commercial outcomes

  • Monitor engagement signals and surface organizational risks early

  • Reinforce a culture of Trusted partnership, transparency, and shared ownership of results

  • Partner with People & Places (HR) to support onboarding, enablement, and capability-building initiatives

  • Ensure recognition and milestones are visible and celebrated across leadership forums

Cross-Functional Alignment

  • Work closely with Marketing, Finance, Sales, Product, Growth, and Customer

  • Success to ensure shared understanding of goals, priorities, and trade-offs

  • Facilitate structured discussions that drive decisions—not just status updates

  • Champion One Autodesk collaboration by aligning teams around outcomes and customer impact

Minimum Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in business operations, strategy, consulting, or analytical roles

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

  • MBA preferred but not required

  • Experience in Digital, eCommerce, SaaS, or performance-driven environments

  • Proven track record supporting senior leaders with executive-level communications

Preferred Qualifications

  • Exceptional PowerPoint and executive storytelling skills; able to build structured, high-impact presentations quickly

  • Strong analytical ability with comfort synthesizing data into insights and recommendations

  • High ownership and ability to operate independently in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

  • Strong financial and commercial acumen, including revenue, forecasting, and KPIs

  • Comfortable leveraging AI and LLM tools as a force multiplier in daily work

  • Executive presence with excellent written and verbal communication skills

  • Proficiency in Excel and presentation tools; familiarity with BI and dash-boarding platforms a plus

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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

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $122,000 and $219,010. 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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Year Founded: 1982

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.

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