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26WD99163
Role Overview
The Technical Specialist, Emerging Technologies - Forma is a technical sales professional responsible for introducing, validating, and scaling Autodesk’s Emerging Technologies across Large, Midmarket, and Territory customers. Operating in a hybrid Autodesk‑led and partner‑led engagement model, this role owns technical execution across a segment or region. The Technical Specialist drives pipeline creation, opportunity qualification, and adoption readiness by leading validation efforts, enabling sellers and partners with scalable technical approaches, and reducing adoption risk. Success in this role is defined by the ability to responsibly position innovation at scale while maintaining technical rigor, commercial alignment, and repeatable execution models.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Advising & Technical Strategy
- Advise sellers and customers on emerging‑solution fit, technical readiness, and recommended adoption approaches.
- Balance opportunity‑specific requirements with regional standards and scalable execution.
Discovery, Demonstrations & Enablement
- Lead complex discovery sessions and demonstrations for priority opportunities.
- Enable sellers and partners with reusable technical narratives, demo patterns, and validation approaches.
Solution Design & Validation
- Architect scalable validation frameworks and lead pilot engagements.
- Align validation outcomes to expansion, scaling, and commercialization decisions.
Regional Enablement & Reuse
- Drive creation, adoption, and reuse of regional playbooks, demos, and technical assets.
- Mentor both entry‑level and experienced technical specialists within the region.
Skills & Capabilities
- Technical & Domain Expertise: Deep domain understanding of Emerging Technologies and early‑stage workflows.
- Demonstration & Storytelling: Advanced technical storytelling and validation leadership abilities.
- Solution Design & Validation: Designs pilot and validation approaches that scale across accounts and regions.
- Customer Discovery & Qualification: Able to scale execution through enablement rather than one‑off delivery.
- Business & Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of pipeline dynamics, opportunity qualification, and go‑to‑market needs.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Sales Teams (AEs, ARs, Sales Specialists): Coordinate pipeline creation, qualification, and progression across multiple opportunities.
- Partners: Enable partner‑led Emerging Technologies motions through playbooks, demos, coaching, and standards.
- Account Technical Leads (ATLs): Partner on standards, prioritization, demo approaches, and validation strategies.
- Customer Success Managers (CSMs): Align on pilots, early adoption, and implementation readiness.
- Product, Engineering & Product Marketing: Provide structured field feedback to influence GTM readiness and roadmap decisions.
Required Qualifications
- 4–7 years of experience in technical sales, sales engineering, solution architecture, or similar customer‑facing technical roles within a software or SaaS environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex discovery, demonstrations, and technical validation engagements.
- Proven ability to design and execute pilots or validation frameworks that support scaling decisions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value.
- Experience enabling sellers and partners through reusable assets rather than one‑to‑one execution.
- Ability to manage multiple, high‑complexity opportunities across a region or segment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Emerging Technologies, early‑stage products, or innovation‑driven solutions.
- Background in platform‑based, cloud, or subscription technology models.
- Experience leading regional or segment‑level technical strategy initiatives.
- Familiarity with partner‑led or hybrid go‑to‑market motions.
- Experience mentoring junior technical specialists or acting as a technical thought leader.
- Direct experience influencing product, engineering, or marketing teams with field‑driven insights.
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 sales roles, we expect a starting On-Target Earnings (OTE) between $126,200 and $226,160. OTE is comprised of base salary plus commission target for sales roles. 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.
Sales Careers
Working in sales at Autodesk allows you to build meaningful relationships with customers while growing your career. Join us and help make a better, more sustainable world. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/careers/sales
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 #
26WD99163
Role Overview
The Technical Specialist, Emerging Technologies - Forma is a technical sales professional responsible for introducing, validating, and scaling Autodesk’s Emerging Technologies across Large, Midmarket, and Territory customers. Operating in a hybrid Autodesk‑led and partner‑led engagement model, this role owns technical execution across a segment or region. The Technical Specialist drives pipeline creation, opportunity qualification, and adoption readiness by leading validation efforts, enabling sellers and partners with scalable technical approaches, and reducing adoption risk. Success in this role is defined by the ability to responsibly position innovation at scale while maintaining technical rigor, commercial alignment, and repeatable execution models.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Advising & Technical Strategy
- Advise sellers and customers on emerging‑solution fit, technical readiness, and recommended adoption approaches.
- Balance opportunity‑specific requirements with regional standards and scalable execution.
Discovery, Demonstrations & Enablement
- Lead complex discovery sessions and demonstrations for priority opportunities.
- Enable sellers and partners with reusable technical narratives, demo patterns, and validation approaches.
Solution Design & Validation
- Architect scalable validation frameworks and lead pilot engagements.
- Align validation outcomes to expansion, scaling, and commercialization decisions.
Regional Enablement & Reuse
- Drive creation, adoption, and reuse of regional playbooks, demos, and technical assets.
- Mentor both entry‑level and experienced technical specialists within the region.
Skills & Capabilities
- Technical & Domain Expertise: Deep domain understanding of Emerging Technologies and early‑stage workflows.
- Demonstration & Storytelling: Advanced technical storytelling and validation leadership abilities.
- Solution Design & Validation: Designs pilot and validation approaches that scale across accounts and regions.
- Customer Discovery & Qualification: Able to scale execution through enablement rather than one‑off delivery.
- Business & Commercial Acumen: Strong understanding of pipeline dynamics, opportunity qualification, and go‑to‑market needs.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Sales Teams (AEs, ARs, Sales Specialists): Coordinate pipeline creation, qualification, and progression across multiple opportunities.
- Partners: Enable partner‑led Emerging Technologies motions through playbooks, demos, coaching, and standards.
- Account Technical Leads (ATLs): Partner on standards, prioritization, demo approaches, and validation strategies.
- Customer Success Managers (CSMs): Align on pilots, early adoption, and implementation readiness.
- Product, Engineering & Product Marketing: Provide structured field feedback to influence GTM readiness and roadmap decisions.
Required Qualifications
- 4–7 years of experience in technical sales, sales engineering, solution architecture, or similar customer‑facing technical roles within a software or SaaS environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex discovery, demonstrations, and technical validation engagements.
- Proven ability to design and execute pilots or validation frameworks that support scaling decisions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value.
- Experience enabling sellers and partners through reusable assets rather than one‑to‑one execution.
- Ability to manage multiple, high‑complexity opportunities across a region or segment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working with Emerging Technologies, early‑stage products, or innovation‑driven solutions.
- Background in platform‑based, cloud, or subscription technology models.
- Experience leading regional or segment‑level technical strategy initiatives.
- Familiarity with partner‑led or hybrid go‑to‑market motions.
- Experience mentoring junior technical specialists or acting as a technical thought leader.
- Direct experience influencing product, engineering, or marketing teams with field‑driven insights.
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 sales roles, we expect a starting On-Target Earnings (OTE) between $126,200 and $226,160. OTE is comprised of base salary plus commission target for sales roles. 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.
Sales Careers
Working in sales at Autodesk allows you to build meaningful relationships with customers while growing your career. Join us and help make a better, more sustainable world. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/careers/sales
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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How to Get Visa Sponsorship in Autodesk H-1B Visa Sponsorship Jobs USA
Target roles that align with Autodesk's core product areas
Autodesk's H-1B sponsorships are concentrated in engineering and technical roles tied to its design and construction software portfolio. Focus your search on positions in software development, cloud platforms, and product infrastructure for the strongest sponsorship likelihood.
Apply before the H-1B lottery registration window closes in March
Autodesk typically initiates H-1B petitions ahead of the annual April 1 cap season. Securing an offer in Q1 gives your employer enough lead time to file your Labor Condition Application and complete registration before the USCIS deadline.
Highlight specialty occupation qualifications clearly in your application
H-1B approval at any Technology & Software company depends on demonstrating a direct link between your degree and the role. Tailor your resume to show how your specific field of study maps to the technical requirements Autodesk lists in the job description.
Use Migrate Mate to verify Autodesk's sponsorship history before applying
Not every open role at Autodesk comes with confirmed sponsorship. Migrate Mate surfaces verified sponsors so you can filter by real sponsorship history, helping you prioritize positions where H-1B support is confirmed rather than assumed.
Engage Autodesk's recruiting team early about your visa status
Autodesk's technical recruiters are experienced with H-1B processes, but raising your visa status early avoids late-stage surprises. Mention your need for sponsorship in your initial recruiter screen so the team can align internally before extending an offer.
Leverage Autodesk's global presence if you need a cap-exempt path
If you miss the H-1B lottery, Autodesk's international offices may offer a path to re-enter on a new cap registration. An intracompany transfer after working abroad for a qualifying period can allow you to apply in a future cycle.
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Does Autodesk sponsor H-1B visas?
Yes, Autodesk sponsors H-1B visas and has a consistent track record of doing so across its U.S. operations. Sponsorship is most common in technical roles tied to software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and product development. Autodesk is considered an active H-1B sponsor within the Technology & Software industry.
Which roles and departments at Autodesk typically receive H-1B sponsorship?
H-1B sponsorship at Autodesk is concentrated in roles that require specialized technical degrees. Software engineers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, cloud architects, and product designers working on Autodesk's core design and construction platforms are the most commonly sponsored positions. Business and operations roles are sponsored less frequently.
How do I navigate the H-1B application process at Autodesk?
Once Autodesk extends an offer and confirms sponsorship, its legal or immigration team files a Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor, then submits an H-1B petition to USCIS during the annual cap registration window in March. You'll need to provide educational credentials, employment documentation, and biographical information. Autodesk typically works with an outside immigration counsel to manage the process.
How do I find H-1B jobs at Autodesk that are open to sponsorship?
Not every Autodesk job posting explicitly states whether sponsorship is available. Migrate Mate aggregates verified H-1B sponsor data so you can search Autodesk openings filtered by confirmed sponsorship history. This narrows your search to roles where sponsorship is a realistic outcome rather than something you have to negotiate from scratch.
What is the typical timeline for H-1B sponsorship at Autodesk?
The timeline depends on when you receive your offer relative to the H-1B cap season. If you're selected in the March lottery, your H-1B status begins October 1. From offer to work authorization, the process spans roughly six to nine months. Candidates already on OPT or another valid status can begin working at Autodesk while the petition is pending.
What is the prevailing wage for H-1B jobs at Autodesk?
H-1B employers must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is determined when they file the Labor Condition Application with the Department of Labor. The rate is based on the role, location, and experience level, and ensures international hires are paid comparably to U.S. workers in the same position. You can look up prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the DOL's OFLC Wage Search tool.
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