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Position Overview
We are looking for a Principal Journey Manager and Experience Researcher, reporting to the Manager, Journey Management and Discovery Research within Autodesk's Worldwide Marketing (WWM) organization. Our team ensures delivery of a seamless experience across the full customer life cycle, End-to-End as well as Front-to-Back. Our team embodies a journey-centric way of collaborating with cross-functional partners including marketing, sales, customer success, legal, engineering, product management, analytics, user research/insights and others to achieve success together.
We are using Journey Management as a modern way of collaboration to deliver experiences for our customers, partners, and employees to drive the throughline from insights to execution. You will be focusing on discovery and journey work for next-generation experiences. By combining generative research methods with a journey-centric view, you will deliver insight reports that help determine the direction and roadmap for strategic projects.
Our Journey Managers and Experience Researchers are relentless customer and user advocates. They possess a passion for human-centered design and know when and how to leverage a variety of research methods and journey development tools to work in lockstep with their teams to envision, validate, and manage high-quality experiences. They embody a continued improvement mindset and operate within a journey management framework to track experiences over time, facilitate ongoing review, influence and activate experience transformation. In a distributed organization model, they form strong and lasting partnerships to exchange insights with research and analytics groups across the organization. They are responsible for keeping journeys in sync with roadmaps and latest organizational knowledge.
The Principal Journey Manager and Experience Researcher will join a high-performing research and design team and will conduct discovery on our digital-first customer touchpoints. The role will require sharp research skills, along with a strategic mindset and the ability to collaborate iteratively with different product teams.
Throughout your work, you will lead rapid change by running experiments, gathering feedback, and iterating collaboratively. In this visible role, you'll interact with senior leadership, internal and external teams. The role requires rigor around research roadmap planning, speed in execution, and a relentless curiosity to experiment with and operationalize AI-integrated workflows.
Responsibilities
- Creating and maintaining end-to-end journeys with known insights and key metrics, facilitating new / additional research as needed
- Mapping persona-based journeys with a holistic view of the experience by identifying important moments that matter, how those touchpoints are connected, and how people experience Autodesk
- Collaborating in our Journey Management platform to connect insights with user journeys and resulting recommendations, driving strategic decision making and prioritization based on insights
- Partnering with CX, research teams, analytics, and other cross-functional teams to refine and monitor experience metrics and VOC
- Working to develop and maintain a network of collaborators across departments and seniority levels
- Facilitating co-creation workshops with partners throughout the company as needed to bring alignment and enable action
- Producing boundary artifacts such as journey maps, service design blueprints, service prototypes, and integrating business process mapping where appropriate
- Actively participate in platform governance efforts to strengthen the journey management process, help implement and establish it
- Proactively planning and executing discovery research throughout the design and development lifecycle, from early strategic direction through post-release validation
- Integrating and synthesizing complex data from diverse sources, analyzing insights for business impact, mapping and measuring outcomes to key moments in the journey
- Employing a wide range of research methods, including formative and summative usability studies, customer interviews and contextual inquiry, and quantitative methods such as A/B testing, multi-variant testing, customer surveys and usage analytics
- Communicating and presenting research findings and insights in a clear and compelling way to a variety of audiences, including executive audience
- Facilitating empathy and synthesis workshops with project teams and stakeholders to ensure that findings and insights are translated into actionable product improvements
- Lead efforts in AI-assisted research, leveraging generative AI tools at every step of the research and Journey Management process
- Partnering with other researchers on our team and across the broader research community at Autodesk to share and evangelize research findings, collaborate on projects to understand our customers’ end-to-end journey, and to promote research as a strategic driver for our products and services
- Acting beyond just a practitioner of research and taking responsibility to be an activator, making sure insights turn into industry-leading products and services
- Supporting an outcome-oriented model measuring the effectiveness of research against business impact
Minimum Qualifications
- Led the creation of journeys validated by evidence from a variety of internal and external sources
- Actively revisited, maintained, and updated journeys with insights and key metrics as they become available from across partner and stakeholder groups
- Facilitated the decision-making process around the creation and identification of key opportunities in the context of journeys for experience improvement
- Partnered with product teams to prioritize strategic focus areas and remained ‘plugged in’ to support their execution, delivery, and evaluation
- Partnered with design to provide guidance for effective and consistent design implementation
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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 $117,000 and $210,540. 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.
Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-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 #
26WD100013
Position Overview
We are looking for a Principal Journey Manager and Experience Researcher, reporting to the Manager, Journey Management and Discovery Research within Autodesk's Worldwide Marketing (WWM) organization. Our team ensures delivery of a seamless experience across the full customer life cycle, End-to-End as well as Front-to-Back. Our team embodies a journey-centric way of collaborating with cross-functional partners including marketing, sales, customer success, legal, engineering, product management, analytics, user research/insights and others to achieve success together.
We are using Journey Management as a modern way of collaboration to deliver experiences for our customers, partners, and employees to drive the throughline from insights to execution. You will be focusing on discovery and journey work for next-generation experiences. By combining generative research methods with a journey-centric view, you will deliver insight reports that help determine the direction and roadmap for strategic projects.
Our Journey Managers and Experience Researchers are relentless customer and user advocates. They possess a passion for human-centered design and know when and how to leverage a variety of research methods and journey development tools to work in lockstep with their teams to envision, validate, and manage high-quality experiences. They embody a continued improvement mindset and operate within a journey management framework to track experiences over time, facilitate ongoing review, influence and activate experience transformation. In a distributed organization model, they form strong and lasting partnerships to exchange insights with research and analytics groups across the organization. They are responsible for keeping journeys in sync with roadmaps and latest organizational knowledge.
The Principal Journey Manager and Experience Researcher will join a high-performing research and design team and will conduct discovery on our digital-first customer touchpoints. The role will require sharp research skills, along with a strategic mindset and the ability to collaborate iteratively with different product teams.
Throughout your work, you will lead rapid change by running experiments, gathering feedback, and iterating collaboratively. In this visible role, you'll interact with senior leadership, internal and external teams. The role requires rigor around research roadmap planning, speed in execution, and a relentless curiosity to experiment with and operationalize AI-integrated workflows.
Responsibilities
- Creating and maintaining end-to-end journeys with known insights and key metrics, facilitating new / additional research as needed
- Mapping persona-based journeys with a holistic view of the experience by identifying important moments that matter, how those touchpoints are connected, and how people experience Autodesk
- Collaborating in our Journey Management platform to connect insights with user journeys and resulting recommendations, driving strategic decision making and prioritization based on insights
- Partnering with CX, research teams, analytics, and other cross-functional teams to refine and monitor experience metrics and VOC
- Working to develop and maintain a network of collaborators across departments and seniority levels
- Facilitating co-creation workshops with partners throughout the company as needed to bring alignment and enable action
- Producing boundary artifacts such as journey maps, service design blueprints, service prototypes, and integrating business process mapping where appropriate
- Actively participate in platform governance efforts to strengthen the journey management process, help implement and establish it
- Proactively planning and executing discovery research throughout the design and development lifecycle, from early strategic direction through post-release validation
- Integrating and synthesizing complex data from diverse sources, analyzing insights for business impact, mapping and measuring outcomes to key moments in the journey
- Employing a wide range of research methods, including formative and summative usability studies, customer interviews and contextual inquiry, and quantitative methods such as A/B testing, multi-variant testing, customer surveys and usage analytics
- Communicating and presenting research findings and insights in a clear and compelling way to a variety of audiences, including executive audience
- Facilitating empathy and synthesis workshops with project teams and stakeholders to ensure that findings and insights are translated into actionable product improvements
- Lead efforts in AI-assisted research, leveraging generative AI tools at every step of the research and Journey Management process
- Partnering with other researchers on our team and across the broader research community at Autodesk to share and evangelize research findings, collaborate on projects to understand our customers’ end-to-end journey, and to promote research as a strategic driver for our products and services
- Acting beyond just a practitioner of research and taking responsibility to be an activator, making sure insights turn into industry-leading products and services
- Supporting an outcome-oriented model measuring the effectiveness of research against business impact
Minimum Qualifications
- Led the creation of journeys validated by evidence from a variety of internal and external sources
- Actively revisited, maintained, and updated journeys with insights and key metrics as they become available from across partner and stakeholder groups
- Facilitated the decision-making process around the creation and identification of key opportunities in the context of journeys for experience improvement
- Partnered with product teams to prioritize strategic focus areas and remained ‘plugged in’ to support their execution, delivery, and evaluation
- Partnered with design to provide guidance for effective and consistent design implementation
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 $117,000 and $210,540. 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.
Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-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 portfolio to Autodesk's platform strategy
Principal roles at Autodesk are evaluated on domain depth, not breadth. Frame your work around specific products like Fusion, BIM 360, or Autodesk Platform Services to signal you can lead at the platform level, not just contribute to it.
Verify your visa category before applying
Autodesk sponsors H-1B, E-3, TN, and F-1 OPT for Principal-level roles, but your eligibility depends on your nationality and current status. Confirm your category aligns before engaging a recruiter so you can address sponsorship directly and confidently.
Target teams actively filing Labor Condition Applications
Search DOL's LCA disclosure data for Autodesk filings tied to Principal-level job titles. Teams that have recently filed are actively hiring sponsored talent, giving you a more targeted shortlist than a broad job board search.
Use Migrate Mate to filter Principal openings by visa type
Browse Principal roles at Autodesk filtered by the visa category you need. Migrate Mate surfaces sponsorship-confirmed openings so you can prioritize applications where your status is already supported rather than discovering this after an offer.
Get your offer letter language right before signing
Autodesk's offer letters for sponsored hires typically reference the visa type and start date tied to a USCIS approval or transfer. Before signing, confirm the letter specifies portability rights if you're mid-process on an existing H-1B or EB petition.
Plan around PERM timing if a Green Card is your goal
Autodesk sponsors EB-2 and EB-3 Green Cards for Principal roles, but PERM recruitment audits require documented evidence of a good-faith hiring process. Raise your long-term immigration goals during the offer stage, not after you've started, so the employer-initiated PERM clock starts early.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Autodesk sponsor H-1B visas for Principals?
Yes, Autodesk sponsors H-1B visas for Principal-level roles. The company files both new cap-subject petitions and transfers for candidates already holding H-1B status. Principal positions typically qualify as specialty occupations under USCIS criteria given the degree requirements in engineering, computer science, or design disciplines. If you're targeting a role here, confirm the specific team's sponsorship posture during the recruiter screen.
How do I apply for Principal jobs at Autodesk?
Apply directly through Autodesk's careers portal, where Principal roles are listed by product area and function. You can also browse sponsorship-confirmed openings on Migrate Mate, which filters Autodesk's Principal listings by visa type so you can identify roles aligned with your work authorization before applying. Tailor your application to the specific platform or product domain the team owns.
Which visa types does Autodesk commonly sponsor for Principal roles?
Autodesk sponsors H-1B, E-3 visa, TN visa, F-1 OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1 visa, and Green Card pathways including EB-2 and EB-3 for Principal positions. Australian citizens are well-positioned to use the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews in two-year increments. Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying professional categories can pursue the TN visa. H-1B remains the most common path for other nationalities.
What qualifications does Autodesk expect for Principal-level roles?
Principal roles at Autodesk generally require significant experience leading complex initiatives independently, whether in software engineering, product design, UX, data science, or architecture technology. A relevant bachelor's degree is the baseline, but many Principal postings reflect expectations of advanced degrees or equivalent industry depth. For sponsored candidates, your degree field must align with the role's specialty occupation classification under USCIS standards.
How do I plan my timeline if I need H-1B sponsorship at Autodesk?
If you need a new H-1B and aren't transferring an existing one, USCIS's annual cap lottery runs in March for an October 1 start date. That gap means an offer accepted in spring may not result in work authorization until fall. Autodesk can file under premium processing to accelerate the approval decision to 15 business days once selected, but lottery registration itself cannot be expedited.