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26WD101495
Position Overview
Autodesk's GTM Tech organization is hiring a Senior Principal Product Manager to own the strategy, vision, and execution of Pipeline Management, Forecasting, and AI-Powered Sales Productivity. These capabilities will support our global sales force with proactive and predictive insights, productivity improvements, and a deep understanding of their customers. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Group Product Manager. Your stakeholder surface extends up to VP level across the CRO organization, Global Forecasting Leadership, Sales Leadership and Sales Operations, and the Salesforce and Clari platform teams.
You will own the forecasting and pipeline management experiences end to end that is used by 2,500 sellers, managers, and executives worldwide. You will also define what comes next: an AI-assisted approach to forecasting and pipeline guidance that sellers trust enough to act on.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision and multi-quarter roadmap for forecasting and pipeline management across Enterprise, Mid-Market, Strategic, and Territory segments, aligned to Autodesk's GTM strategy
- Define and prioritize scalable capabilities: pipeline creation, coverage, quality, and health; opportunity inspection and prioritization; commit, best-case, upside, roll-ups, and forecast confidence and explainability
- Identify and frame the highest-leverage problems through discovery with sellers, managers, SalesOps, and field leadership, converting insights into clear PRDs, measurable success criteria with baselines and targets, telemetry-first launches, and non-functional requirements
- Own the forecasting and pipeline management experiences end to end including forecast and pipeline workflows, forecast review and inspection experiences, dashboards, roll-ups, and manager and executive forecasting surfaces
- Serve as the primary product leader accountable for maximizing value across the sales organization
- Own the vendor relationships: influence the partner roadmaps on Autodesk's behalf, hold the vendor accountable to committed capability
- Define and execute the AI strategy for this domain, looking beyond vendor features to a differentiated internal roadmap built around connected agents that share context and hand work off to one another, including Forecasting Agents, Pipeline Agents, Seller Productivity Agents, etc
- Design experiences that let sellers review forecasts, manage pipeline, update opportunities, and act on recommendations through AI assistants, conversational interfaces, Slack, Microsoft Teams, mobile, and voice, rather than depending solely on a singular classic user interface, prioritizing reliability, explainability, and trust
- Establish frameworks for AI-assisted capabilities: adoption, task completion, seller satisfaction, error rates, and business impact
- Influence decisions as the forecasting and pipeline SME, recommend best practices, propose tradeoffs, and guide stakeholder decisions through clear narratives and data-backed reasoning, up to VP level
- Build alignment in a cross-functional manner, leveraging AI prototypes to generate rapid discovery alignment across the Forecasting Leadership, Sales Leaders/Managers/Reps, Sales Ops, and the various vendors
Minimum Qualifications
- 8 to 12+ years of product management experience in enterprise SaaS or GTM platforms, with demonstrated ownership of complex enterprise products at scale
- Demonstrated experience building forecasting or pipeline products in a complex B2B sales environment, including workflow design, accuracy, and adoption across global sales roles
- Deep, hands-on expertise across the full sales forecasting and pipeline lifecycle, from pipeline creation to executive roll-up, in a complex global B2B environment. This role requires an expert, not a fast learner
- Strong working knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud and forecasting tools like Clari
- A credible, hands-on point of view on enterprise AI, spanning predictive analytics, AI-driven recommendations, workflow automation, and agentic systems, paired with the judgment to recognize when an output is not trustworthy enough to ship
- Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication, including the demo and narrative skills to persuade sales, engineering, and data leaders up to VP level
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong analytics capability, SQL or BI tooling, to define and monitor forecast accuracy, adoption, data quality, and pipeline health
- Familiarity with sales engagement and conversational intelligence platforms
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 $149,000 and $266,200. 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
In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification
This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
Job Requisition ID #
26WD101495
Position Overview
Autodesk's GTM Tech organization is hiring a Senior Principal Product Manager to own the strategy, vision, and execution of Pipeline Management, Forecasting, and AI-Powered Sales Productivity. These capabilities will support our global sales force with proactive and predictive insights, productivity improvements, and a deep understanding of their customers. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to the Group Product Manager. Your stakeholder surface extends up to VP level across the CRO organization, Global Forecasting Leadership, Sales Leadership and Sales Operations, and the Salesforce and Clari platform teams.
You will own the forecasting and pipeline management experiences end to end that is used by 2,500 sellers, managers, and executives worldwide. You will also define what comes next: an AI-assisted approach to forecasting and pipeline guidance that sellers trust enough to act on.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision and multi-quarter roadmap for forecasting and pipeline management across Enterprise, Mid-Market, Strategic, and Territory segments, aligned to Autodesk's GTM strategy
- Define and prioritize scalable capabilities: pipeline creation, coverage, quality, and health; opportunity inspection and prioritization; commit, best-case, upside, roll-ups, and forecast confidence and explainability
- Identify and frame the highest-leverage problems through discovery with sellers, managers, SalesOps, and field leadership, converting insights into clear PRDs, measurable success criteria with baselines and targets, telemetry-first launches, and non-functional requirements
- Own the forecasting and pipeline management experiences end to end including forecast and pipeline workflows, forecast review and inspection experiences, dashboards, roll-ups, and manager and executive forecasting surfaces
- Serve as the primary product leader accountable for maximizing value across the sales organization
- Own the vendor relationships: influence the partner roadmaps on Autodesk's behalf, hold the vendor accountable to committed capability
- Define and execute the AI strategy for this domain, looking beyond vendor features to a differentiated internal roadmap built around connected agents that share context and hand work off to one another, including Forecasting Agents, Pipeline Agents, Seller Productivity Agents, etc
- Design experiences that let sellers review forecasts, manage pipeline, update opportunities, and act on recommendations through AI assistants, conversational interfaces, Slack, Microsoft Teams, mobile, and voice, rather than depending solely on a singular classic user interface, prioritizing reliability, explainability, and trust
- Establish frameworks for AI-assisted capabilities: adoption, task completion, seller satisfaction, error rates, and business impact
- Influence decisions as the forecasting and pipeline SME, recommend best practices, propose tradeoffs, and guide stakeholder decisions through clear narratives and data-backed reasoning, up to VP level
- Build alignment in a cross-functional manner, leveraging AI prototypes to generate rapid discovery alignment across the Forecasting Leadership, Sales Leaders/Managers/Reps, Sales Ops, and the various vendors
Minimum Qualifications
- 8 to 12+ years of product management experience in enterprise SaaS or GTM platforms, with demonstrated ownership of complex enterprise products at scale
- Demonstrated experience building forecasting or pipeline products in a complex B2B sales environment, including workflow design, accuracy, and adoption across global sales roles
- Deep, hands-on expertise across the full sales forecasting and pipeline lifecycle, from pipeline creation to executive roll-up, in a complex global B2B environment. This role requires an expert, not a fast learner
- Strong working knowledge of Salesforce Sales Cloud and forecasting tools like Clari
- A credible, hands-on point of view on enterprise AI, spanning predictive analytics, AI-driven recommendations, workflow automation, and agentic systems, paired with the judgment to recognize when an output is not trustworthy enough to ship
- Exceptional written, verbal, and visual communication, including the demo and narrative skills to persuade sales, engineering, and data leaders up to VP level
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong analytics capability, SQL or BI tooling, to define and monitor forecast accuracy, adoption, data quality, and pipeline health
- Familiarity with sales engagement and conversational intelligence platforms
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 $149,000 and $266,200. 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
In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification
This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
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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.