Senior Manager, Design Technology, AEC

This strategic management role is focused on building a component-based AI design framework that scales across the Autodesk platform. This role is also responsible for overseeing the creation of standards, processes and best practices that facilitate our team’s engagement with vertical platform teams as they move more of their workflows and capabilities to our agentic platform.

Working closely with Design and Engineering, you will lead our shift toward AI-augmented design development and establish a functional components library that will increase consistency, reduce redundancy and increase our overall quality of experiences we are able to deploy at scale across the platform.

Responsibilities

Oversee development of adaptive, context-aware UI components that scale across agentic workflows

Establish and maintain a modular framework that supports personalized and agent-assisted user experiences

Establish scalable processes that speed delivery from prototype to deployable solutions

Build collaborative relationships and demonstrate value for stakeholders to adopt framework components, processes and best practices

Build and develop a strong team of UX Engineers, Motion designers and Architects that can execute the frameworks that will support our emerging platform

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of professional experience managing front-end or full-stack development teams

12+ years related experience

Experience creating and maintaining reusable UI components and component libraries

AI Tooling Fluency: Demonstrated "must-have" experience using Claude Code, Gemini Code Assist, or equivalent LLM-based coding agents to deliver complex features

Expert React & TypeScript: Deep proficiency in React Hooks, state management (Zustand, Redux, or Context), and component-driven design

Experience leading the architecture and development of large-scale web applications, including performance optimization, accessibility, responsive design, and modern UI engineering practices

Proficiency in Software Development practices, including version control, testing, and debugging

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building and maintaining component libraries

Experience building agentic or AI-assisted interaction components

Experience leading design systems that support complex workflows

Experience mentoring front end engineers and elevating technical capabilities within a team

Experience establishing cross organizational methods and practices

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About Autodesk

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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 $157,000 and $281,930. 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.

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In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.