Job Requisition ID #
As part of Autodesk’s global Localization organization, the Senior Manager of Localization Program Management leads program strategy, operational execution, cross-functional governance, and financial management of localization across Autodesk’s product and platform ecosystem. This role partners closely—but distinctly with the Senior Manager of Localization Engineering, who owns technology, automation, and platforms.
This role owns planning, delivery, stakeholder alignment, operational scale, budget ownership, and business outcomes for localization across Autodesk.
You will lead a team of localization program managers responsible for orchestrating AI-enabled, multimodal, scalable localization workflows. Your team ensures predictable delivery, clear communication, data-driven decisions, and seamless execution across Autodesk for global market-readiness.
You report directly to the Head of Localization, alongside your partner leader in Localization Engineering.
Own Autodesk’s enterprise localization program strategy, ensuring alignment with the Design & Make Platform and all functional organizations.
Partner closely with the Localization Engineering team to ensure program needs (capacity, tooling, quality insights, LQA signals, automation priorities) are met.
Drive readiness for global expansion, including market entry sequencing, linguistic quality governance, and compliance requirements.
Introduce program frameworks supporting forecasting, planning, prioritization, and scalable execution.
Anticipate program needs tied to AI-native features, generative content workflows, internationalization dependencies, and evolving market regulations.
Provide strategic oversight (not tactical execution) of complex, multi-product localization programs.
Translate global product and platform roadmaps into customized localization program plans, ensuring alignment with internationalization readiness.
Operationalize predictive quality systems using LQA results, MT/LLM scoring, telemetry, and customer insights.
Own and evolve central dashboards, program KPIs, OKRs, and release governance.
Partner with Localization Engineering to influence MT/LLM strategy, ensuring program requirements drive model selection, guardrails, and quality standards.
Define how agentic AI workflows integrate with PM processes (content triage, metadata enrichment, linguistic quality signals, workflow automation).
Reinforce Autodesk’s Responsible AI, privacy, and compliance standards.
Ensure internationalization requirements (locale behavior, formatting, UX patterns, cultural adaptation, linguistic rules) are incorporated into program planning.
Serve as the senior PM interface across all functional organizations, and regional leaders.
Ensure that global experiences meet criteria for cultural correctness, inclusion, safety, regulatory compliance, and market relevance.
Represent Localization in portfolio, roadmap, and go‑to‑market planning.
Lead and develop a high-performing team of localization program managers.
Refine career architecture, talent pathways, and operating models optimized for an AI-first organization.
Foster a culture of accountability, clarity, operational rigor, market empathy, and continuous learning.
Drive evolution of processes, KPIs, SLAs, and workflows to improve quality, predictability, and efficiency.
Partner with suppliers on operational performance, capacity readiness, and AI capabilities.
Embed governance standards—Responsible AI, privacy, security, compliance, traceability—into all programs.
Own enterprise-level localization budgeting, forecasting, cost optimization, and financial governance.
Partner with Finance, Procurement, Supplier Management, and Localization Engineering to ensure sustainable investment planning.
Establish visibility through standardized financial dashboards tied to business impact and operational KPIs.
Ensure localization and globalization investments have clear ROI and support enterprise priorities.
10+ years of program or project management, including 5+ years leading teams.
Proven success driving enterprise-scale localization and globalization programs.
Strong experience collaborating with internationalization engineering teams and integrating internationalization readiness into program planning.
Understanding of AI-enabled localization workflows, MT/LLM systems, and multimodal content.
Expertise in program governance, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional execution.
Demonstrated capability in budget planning, forecasting, and spend governance.
Excellent communication and senior leadership‑level reporting skills.
Experience leading global programs across product, platform, and content ecosystems.
Knowledge of Responsible AI, AI governance, and risk controls.
Familiarity with agentic AI workflows and autonomous pipeline orchestration.
Experience with TMS/terminology systems, CMS platforms, and quality evaluation tooling.
Strong grounding in globalization best practices (locale adaptation, UX localization, cultural research).
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!
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $123,000 and $180,400. 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.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
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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
Similar Jobs
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.
Gallery
