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Job Requisition ID #
26WD97251
Role Overview
The Program Manager, Customer Programs will lead and scale initiatives that put the customer at the center of our strategy and execution. This role is responsible for designing and delivering programs that elevate customer voice, strengthen customer relationships, and directly support go-to-market priorities.
Working across Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Strategy, this role will drive programs that connect customer insights and advocacy to tangible business outcomes—including pipeline acceleration, customer retention, and brand credibility.
This role requires a highly collaborative and customer-centric program leader who can operate both strategically and hands-on—building programs from the ground up while ensuring operational rigor and measurable impact.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver programs that amplify the voice of the customer across go-to-market and product initiatives
- Build scalable frameworks for customer engagement, advocacy, and storytelling (e.g., references, case studies, events, insights)
- Align customer programs to business priorities, ensuring clear linkage to pipeline, growth, and retention goals
- Lead end-to-end execution of customer-focused programs, including planning, stakeholder alignment, and delivery
- Manage multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring timelines, milestones, and outcomes are clearly defined and achieved
- Establish processes to efficiently intake, prioritize, and fulfill requests related to customer engagement and advocacy
- Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Product teams to identify opportunities to leverage customer voice
- Collaborate on strategic accounts and initiatives to deepen customer relationships and engagement
- Serve as a connector across teams to ensure consistent and high-quality customer experiences
- Define and track program success metrics, including engagement, impact on pipeline, and customer satisfaction
- Analyze trends and feedback to continuously improve program effectiveness
- Provide regular updates and insights to stakeholders and leadership
- Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with customers and internal stakeholders
- Ensure customers have a positive and valuable experience when participating in programs
- Represent the customer perspective in internal discussions and decision-making
Key Qualifications
- 8-10+ years of experience in program management, project management, or business/operations roles
- Proven experience leading multiple complex initiatives simultaneously from planning through delivery
- Proven experience partnering with senior leadership teams on complex initiatives, including driving alignment, surfacing risks, managing escalations, and enabling effective decision-making
- Experience working closely with high-impact customers
- Experience working cross-functionally in a matrixed organization
- Strong organization, attention to detail, problem-solving, and execution
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and synthesis skills, with the ability to support both executive-level discussions and working team execution
- Experience managing external vendors or strategic partners to deliver high-quality outcomes in close coordination with internal teams
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
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/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $102,000 and $182,710. 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
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).

Job Requisition ID #
26WD97251
Role Overview
The Program Manager, Customer Programs will lead and scale initiatives that put the customer at the center of our strategy and execution. This role is responsible for designing and delivering programs that elevate customer voice, strengthen customer relationships, and directly support go-to-market priorities.
Working across Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Product, and Strategy, this role will drive programs that connect customer insights and advocacy to tangible business outcomes—including pipeline acceleration, customer retention, and brand credibility.
This role requires a highly collaborative and customer-centric program leader who can operate both strategically and hands-on—building programs from the ground up while ensuring operational rigor and measurable impact.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver programs that amplify the voice of the customer across go-to-market and product initiatives
- Build scalable frameworks for customer engagement, advocacy, and storytelling (e.g., references, case studies, events, insights)
- Align customer programs to business priorities, ensuring clear linkage to pipeline, growth, and retention goals
- Lead end-to-end execution of customer-focused programs, including planning, stakeholder alignment, and delivery
- Manage multiple concurrent initiatives, ensuring timelines, milestones, and outcomes are clearly defined and achieved
- Establish processes to efficiently intake, prioritize, and fulfill requests related to customer engagement and advocacy
- Partner closely with Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and Product teams to identify opportunities to leverage customer voice
- Collaborate on strategic accounts and initiatives to deepen customer relationships and engagement
- Serve as a connector across teams to ensure consistent and high-quality customer experiences
- Define and track program success metrics, including engagement, impact on pipeline, and customer satisfaction
- Analyze trends and feedback to continuously improve program effectiveness
- Provide regular updates and insights to stakeholders and leadership
- Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with customers and internal stakeholders
- Ensure customers have a positive and valuable experience when participating in programs
- Represent the customer perspective in internal discussions and decision-making
Key Qualifications
- 8-10+ years of experience in program management, project management, or business/operations roles
- Proven experience leading multiple complex initiatives simultaneously from planning through delivery
- Proven experience partnering with senior leadership teams on complex initiatives, including driving alignment, surfacing risks, managing escalations, and enabling effective decision-making
- Experience working closely with high-impact customers
- Experience working cross-functionally in a matrixed organization
- Strong organization, attention to detail, problem-solving, and execution
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and synthesis skills, with the ability to support both executive-level discussions and working team execution
- Experience managing external vendors or strategic partners to deliver high-quality outcomes in close coordination with internal teams
- Experience working with globally distributed teams
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
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/
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $102,000 and $182,710. 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
Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
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Align your background to Autodesk's vertical focus
Autodesk's BD roles are organized around industries like Architecture, Engineering, and Construction or Media and Entertainment. Tailor your resume to reflect experience in one of these verticals, not just generic software sales, before you apply.
Confirm LCA certification before accepting an offer
Your employer must file a certified Labor Condition Application with the DOL before sponsoring your H-1B. Request confirmation of this step early in offer negotiations so the LCA timeline doesn't delay your start date.
Prepare credentials that support specialty occupation status
USCIS scrutinizes BD roles more than engineering roles for specialty occupation eligibility. Document that your degree field directly relates to the business development function, and gather letters from past employers confirming how your role required that specialized knowledge.
Target Autodesk's partner ecosystem roles strategically
Many of Autodesk's Business Development Manager openings sit within their partner and channel teams. These roles often require a mix of technical fluency and sales experience, which strengthens a specialty occupation case compared to a pure quota-carrying sales position.
Use Migrate Mate to filter open Business Development Manager roles at Autodesk by visa type
Not every open role is posted with sponsorship intent made clear. Migrate Mate lets you filter Autodesk's current openings specifically for visa-eligible positions, saving you from applying to roles where sponsorship isn't available.
Start OPT or CPT engagement before your grace period runs out
If you're on F-1 OPT, Autodesk can begin your H-1B sponsorship process while you're actively employed. The 60-day grace period after OPT expires is not enough buffer to complete filing, so initiate conversations with your hiring manager and HR well before your EAD end date.
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Find Business Development Manager at Autodesk JobsFrequently Asked Questions
Does Autodesk sponsor H-1B visas for Business Development Managers?
Yes, Autodesk sponsors H-1B visas for Business Development Manager roles. The company has a consistent pattern of sponsoring nonimmigrant and immigrant visas across its go-to-market functions. Because BD roles face higher USCIS scrutiny than engineering roles for specialty occupation status, having a degree that directly relates to the position strengthens your petition considerably.
How do I apply for Business Development Manager jobs at Autodesk?
You can apply directly through Autodesk's careers site or browse their current openings filtered by visa sponsorship eligibility on Migrate Mate. Autodesk's BD roles typically require experience in enterprise software sales or partner development, so tailor your application to the specific industry vertical the role covers, such as construction technology or media software.
Which visa types does Autodesk commonly sponsor for Business Development Manager roles?
Autodesk sponsors H-1B, E-3, TN, and F-1 OPT and CPT visas for Business Development Manager positions. Australian nationals can pursue the E-3, which carries no lottery and is renewable in two-year increments. Canadian and Mexican professionals may qualify under the TN category. For longer-term pathways, Autodesk also files EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card petitions for qualifying employees.
What qualifications does Autodesk expect for a Business Development Manager role?
Autodesk's Business Development Manager postings typically expect a bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a related field, combined with experience in enterprise software, SaaS partnerships, or channel sales. Many roles also expect familiarity with Autodesk's core product categories. For visa sponsorship purposes, having a degree that maps directly to the role's responsibilities is important for satisfying USCIS specialty occupation requirements.
How do I plan my timeline when pursuing H-1B sponsorship through Autodesk?
H-1B registration opens in March for an October 1 start date. Autodesk would need to register you before that window closes, so securing an offer by late January or early February gives HR enough time to complete the process. If you're selected in the lottery, USCIS then has several months to adjudicate the petition before your status start date.
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