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Position Overview
At Autodesk, we do what no other company can: we help our customers design and make anything. As we continue to transform how customers experience Autodesk, we are investing in insight-driven product development, seamless digital experiences, and AI-powered innovation to help people achieve meaningful outcomes faster and smarter. To deliver on that vision, we need exceptional contributors and leaders who are curious, adaptable, customer-focused, and excited to help shape the future of work at Autodesk.
We are seeking a Principal Visual Experience Designer to operate at a creative leadership level as a highly strategic individual contributor, elevating the craft, quality, and consistency of visual design. In this role, you will partner with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to translate product strategy and interaction concepts into polished visual systems that delight users. You will influence product direction, shape cross-product experiences, help define a forward-looking visual design vision for AI-powered experiences, and raise the bar for visual quality across the organization.
Within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Experience Foundations (XF) organization, the Visual Experience Design (VXD) team plays a unique horizontal role—partnering across all AEC products to bring clarity, cohesion, and beauty to the ecosystem. Our mission is to deliver impact through delight and desirability, creating elegant, intuitive visual experiences that users love and trust.
This role is ideal for someone with exceptional visual craft and a strong point of view, who can influence others, identify opportunities to uplevel experiences, and contribute to a more cohesive, modern, and AI-forward design direction across AEC.
**When applying you must include your resume and portfolio link on your resume with password/access**
Responsibilities
- Design high-quality, visually refined experiences across workflows, features, and touchpoints that elevate usability and desirability
- Translate product strategy, interaction concepts, and emerging AI capabilities into clear, intuitive, and polished visual designs that support user confidence and trust
- Identify and drive “user delighter” opportunities—thoughtful details, patterns, and refinements that can scale across multiple AEC products
- Contribute to and leverage the Autodesk design system with scalable patterns and visual guidance to drive consistency, alignment, and efficiency across AEC while enabling product flexibility
- Partner closely with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to ensure visual design is aligned with user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
- Collaborate across teams to strengthen continuity and cohesion across the AEC product ecosystem
- Provide visual design leadership through craft—participating in critiques, offering guidance, and helping raise the quality bar across teams
- Translate complex workflows and concepts into elegant, understandable interfaces with strong attention to hierarchy, layout, and detail
- Create high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and specifications, and partner through implementation to ensure quality at launch
- Explore and help define visual patterns for AI-powered and adaptive experiences, including clarity, feedback, and trust
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in visual design, product design, UX/UI design, or related fields
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and thoughtful, high-quality execution across digital products
- Deep expertise in typography, color, composition, hierarchy, and interface design
- Experience in motion design, user interface animation, and micro interactions that deliver intuitive, delightful experiences
- Experience designing for complex products, workflows, or platform ecosystems in enterprise environments to improve consistency and cohesion
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence design decisions through strong rationale and craft
- Expert understanding of how visual design supports usability, accessibility, and interaction design, and the proven ability to apply insights strategically to influence product vision
- Experience contributing to design systems or scalable visual frameworks
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma
- Proficiency with AI tools and workflows, and sound judgment in applying them to visual design and prototyping process
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing AI-powered, adaptive, or context-aware experiences
- Experience mentoring designers or contributing to raising team craft standards
- Experience in the AEC industry
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
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 #
Position Overview
At Autodesk, we do what no other company can: we help our customers design and make anything. As we continue to transform how customers experience Autodesk, we are investing in insight-driven product development, seamless digital experiences, and AI-powered innovation to help people achieve meaningful outcomes faster and smarter. To deliver on that vision, we need exceptional contributors and leaders who are curious, adaptable, customer-focused, and excited to help shape the future of work at Autodesk.
We are seeking a Principal Visual Experience Designer to operate at a creative leadership level as a highly strategic individual contributor, elevating the craft, quality, and consistency of visual design. In this role, you will partner with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to translate product strategy and interaction concepts into polished visual systems that delight users. You will influence product direction, shape cross-product experiences, help define a forward-looking visual design vision for AI-powered experiences, and raise the bar for visual quality across the organization.
Within the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Experience Foundations (XF) organization, the Visual Experience Design (VXD) team plays a unique horizontal role—partnering across all AEC products to bring clarity, cohesion, and beauty to the ecosystem. Our mission is to deliver impact through delight and desirability, creating elegant, intuitive visual experiences that users love and trust.
This role is ideal for someone with exceptional visual craft and a strong point of view, who can influence others, identify opportunities to uplevel experiences, and contribute to a more cohesive, modern, and AI-forward design direction across AEC.
**When applying you must include your resume and portfolio link on your resume with password/access**
Responsibilities
- Design high-quality, visually refined experiences across workflows, features, and touchpoints that elevate usability and desirability
- Translate product strategy, interaction concepts, and emerging AI capabilities into clear, intuitive, and polished visual designs that support user confidence and trust
- Identify and drive “user delighter” opportunities—thoughtful details, patterns, and refinements that can scale across multiple AEC products
- Contribute to and leverage the Autodesk design system with scalable patterns and visual guidance to drive consistency, alignment, and efficiency across AEC while enabling product flexibility
- Partner closely with Product Design, Research, Product Management, Engineering, and Content Design to ensure visual design is aligned with user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
- Collaborate across teams to strengthen continuity and cohesion across the AEC product ecosystem
- Provide visual design leadership through craft—participating in critiques, offering guidance, and helping raise the quality bar across teams
- Translate complex workflows and concepts into elegant, understandable interfaces with strong attention to hierarchy, layout, and detail
- Create high-fidelity designs, prototypes, and specifications, and partner through implementation to ensure quality at launch
- Explore and help define visual patterns for AI-powered and adaptive experiences, including clarity, feedback, and trust
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in visual design, product design, UX/UI design, or related fields
- Strong portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual craft and thoughtful, high-quality execution across digital products
- Deep expertise in typography, color, composition, hierarchy, and interface design
- Experience in motion design, user interface animation, and micro interactions that deliver intuitive, delightful experiences
- Experience designing for complex products, workflows, or platform ecosystems in enterprise environments to improve consistency and cohesion
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence design decisions through strong rationale and craft
- Expert understanding of how visual design supports usability, accessibility, and interaction design, and the proven ability to apply insights strategically to influence product vision
- Experience contributing to design systems or scalable visual frameworks
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments
- Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma
- Proficiency with AI tools and workflows, and sound judgment in applying them to visual design and prototyping process
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing AI-powered, adaptive, or context-aware experiences
- Experience mentoring designers or contributing to raising team craft standards
- Experience in the AEC industry
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
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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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal designer jobs.
- 8 or more years of product or UX design experience with increasing responsibility
- Expert proficiency in Figma including component libraries and design system maintenance
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional design projects from discovery to launch
- Strong portfolio showing systems-level thinking and measurable product outcomes
- Experience mentoring or coaching mid-level and senior designers
- Bachelor's degree in design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
Tips for Your Principal Designer Job Search
Prove your design leadership on paper
Your resume needs to show decisions made, not just deliverables shipped. Call out moments you defined the design direction, mentored junior designers, or influenced product strategy, those distinctions separate principal-level candidates from senior ones.
Build a portfolio around systems thinking
Hiring teams for principal roles want to see how you think at scale. Include at least one case study where you created or evolved a design system, set team-wide standards, or resolved cross-functional design conflicts that had real product impact.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists principal designer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by org structure before you apply
Principal designer roles vary wildly: some are pure craft leads with no reports, others own a design vertical with three or four direct reports. Read the job description for headcount ownership and reporting lines so you're not surprised in the first interview.
Prepare a point of view for the portfolio review
Most principal designer interviews include a work critique or portfolio walkthrough where you're expected to defend tradeoffs. Practice articulating why you made specific system or interaction decisions, not just what you made, interviewers probe for design rationale, not aesthetics.
Negotiate title and scope together
At the principal level, title inflation is common across companies. When an offer arrives, ask directly how many product teams the role supports and whether the principal has final design approval or an advisory role, scope often matters more than the title itself.
Principal Designer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most principal designers?
The companies hiring the most principal designers right now include Intuit, CHA Consulting, and Worley, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand is concentrated at mid-to-large tech companies, healthcare platforms, and enterprise software firms.
How many principal designer jobs are remote?
About 67% of principal designer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, making it one of the more flexible roles at senior levels. Design systems and UX strategy work tend to attract the highest share of fully remote postings, while roles requiring close collaboration with hardware or physical product teams lean toward on-site or hybrid.
How do you become a principal designer?
You typically move into a principal designer role by first building deep craft expertise as a senior designer, then taking on scope that goes beyond your immediate product team. That means leading cross-functional initiatives, establishing design standards others follow, and consistently influencing product decisions at the strategic level. Most companies also expect you to mentor junior and mid-level designers before making the case for a principal title.
Can you get hired as a principal designer without prior principal experience?
Yes, but you need to demonstrate principal-level impact in your current or most recent role even if the title didn't match. Hiring managers look for evidence you've driven design direction across multiple teams, created systems or standards with lasting organizational impact, and operated without close supervision. A portfolio that documents cross-functional leadership and measurable product outcomes compensates for a missing title on your resume.
What does the principal designer interview process look like?
Most principal designer interview processes run four to six rounds and include a recruiter screen, a hiring manager conversation focused on scope and leadership style, a portfolio or case study presentation to a cross-functional panel, and one or more design critique or whiteboard sessions. Later rounds often involve conversations with product directors or VPs to assess strategic alignment. References and a take-home design challenge appear at some companies but are less common at this level.
Where can I find and apply to principal designer jobs?
You can find and apply to principal designer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and specialization, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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