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About the Role

This high-impact, senior leadership role is responsible for shaping how Autodesk's CEO and industry platforms are understood by key external audiences. The role operates across CEO communications in partnership with CEO Andrew Anagnost and product/industry communications supporting business leaders across various sectors. The leader acts as a strategic counselor, executive operator, and connector, ensuring consistency across critical company moments and audiences.

Responsibilities

Serve as primary communications partner to the CEO, providing strategic counsel, message development, and content creation.
Shape and evolve the CEO narrative platform, including positioning around Physical AI and Autodesk’s platform strategy.
Lead development of high-visibility executive content such as keynotes, speeches, earnings support, media engagements, Board materials, and thought leadership.
Prepare and support the CEO for external engagements with media, analysts, investors, customers, and industry partners.
Own communications strategy for Autodesk’s industry groups, partnering directly with executive leaders.
Translate complex product capabilities, platform innovation, and AI advancements into clear, compelling narratives for external audiences.
Lead proactive storytelling that strengthens Autodesk’s position across priority industries and growth areas.
Partner closely with Product Marketing to deliver integrated narratives for launches, events, and strategic initiatives.
Act as a strategic advisor and connector across the business, ensuring alignment between product strategy, corporate positioning, and company narratives.
Partner across Global Communications to ensure alignment between CEO, product, platform, and corporate storytelling.
Collaborate with Investor Relations, Legal, Marketing, and executive leadership to align messaging across key company moments.
Ensure consistency, clarity, and impact across all external communications.
Lead and develop a high-performing team focused on executive and product communications.
Manage agency partners and external resources as needed.
Drive prioritization, operational rigor, and execution in a complex, fast-moving environment.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in communications, with strong experience in enterprise technology or B2B software.
Demonstrated experience supporting CEO or senior executive communications at a public company.
Experience supporting communications that influence investors, analysts, Board members, and other senior external stakeholders.
Proven track record in product or platform communications, with the ability to translate complex technology into market-relevant narratives.
Experience operating across executive and product communications in an integrated way.
Experience leading and developing teams.

Skills

Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt to CEO voice and technical narratives.
Executive presence with demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, challenge assumptions constructively, and build alignment while maintaining trust and credibility.
Strong strategic judgment paired with a hands-on approach to execution.
Deep understanding of the communications rhythm of a public company, including earnings, launches, and major events.
Ability to engage deeply with technical leaders and translate complex platform, AI, and product strategies into clear, compelling business narratives.
Strong media instincts and relationships, particularly in enterprise technology and industry press.

Location

San Francisco Bay Area preferred
West Coast considered

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Director
12+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$190,000 - $341,220

Benefits

Health benefits
Financial benefits
Time away
Everyday wellness

About the Company

Autodesk is a global leader in design and make technology, powering the industries that design and build the world around us across architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and media.
With approximately $7B in revenue and 15,000 employees worldwide, Autodesk is advancing a platform strategy centered on Physical AI, connecting data, design, and outcomes across the lifecycle of the built world.
Our Global Communications team is a high-performing, globally distributed function embedded at the center of the business and closely aligned with the executive team.
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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

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.
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive.