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About the Role

Autodesk Research is seeking a Senior Research Program Manager to lead a portfolio of construction research programs. This role connects research strategy, construction expertise, AI workflows, and program execution to drive impact from concept to reality, focusing on advances that may shape products and workflows five to ten years out.

Responsibilities

• Lead program management for construction research initiatives.
• Manage programs spanning multiple projects, experiments, prototypes, and partnerships across complex timelines.
• Build and maintain integrated program plans, defining scope, objectives, milestones, dependencies, and owners.
• Align the portfolio with Research priorities, Autodesk’s long-term construction vision, capacity, and strategic outcomes.
• Help teams prioritize competing opportunities for attention, staffing, or funding.
• Coordinate across researchers, engineers, designers, product teams, external partners, and leadership.
• Manage the research lifecycle from opportunity framing to transition planning.
• Establish lightweight governance for planning, reviews, decisions, and risk tracking.
• Ensure research artifacts, learnings, demos, and decision records are findable and reusable.
• Support transition planning for research informing product strategy, incubation, or future investment.
• Partner with other Research Program Managers to improve shared practices, tools, and operating rhythms.
• Coordinate AI and emerging technology research, supporting programs exploring AI, generative AI, intelligent agents, simulation, and connected workflows.
• Help researchers structure AI-enabled workstreams with clear milestones, experiments, and evaluation plans.
• Coordinate research integrating BIM, schedules, reality capture, field data, and other construction information sources.
• Translate emerging technical work into clear narratives, decision briefs, and next-step recommendations.
• Use AI tools in your own practice to improve planning, synthesis, documentation, and follow-through.
• Create structure to help people do their best work without slowing research down.
• Maintain dashboards, milestone trackers, decision logs, risk registers, and stakeholder updates.
• Identify blockers, ambiguous ownership, unresolved decisions, and priority conflicts.
• Facilitate planning sessions, research reviews, workshops, and decision forums.
• Prepare executive summaries, narratives, and briefing materials for senior leaders.
• Track program budgets, planned expenditures, and resource needs.
• Support annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and resource prioritization.
• Coordinate external collaborations, customer engagements, and academic or industry partnerships.

Requirements

• 8+ years in program management, project management, research operations, construction technology, or a related field.
• Experience managing complex, multi-workstream programs with diverse stakeholders, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Working knowledge of construction workflows: preconstruction, BIM/VDC, scheduling, field execution, or construction data management.
• Demonstrated ability to build structure in ambiguous, newly forming areas.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and dashboards.
• Strong facilitation and influencing skills across multidisciplinary teams.
• Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, Slack, or equivalents.
• Ability to work effectively across global teams and time zones.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, generative AI, intelligent agents, or data-driven product development.
• Experience coordinating programs involving data integration, connected workflows, or scalable data pipelines.
• Experience managing research collaborations, customer advisory engagements, or academic/industry partnerships.

Skills

• Construction domain fluency
• AI and emerging technology research coordination
• AI tools for program management
• Strategic thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Communication
• Facilitation
• Influencing
• Jira
• Confluence
• Miro
• Slack

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Computer Science, HCI, Business, or related field; equivalent experience welcome.

Salary/Compensations

• CAD 111,400 - CAD 163,350

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Annual cash bonuses
• Stock grants

About the Company

• 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

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