About the Role
We are seeking a Program Manager to independently lead assigned cross-functional programs within Platform Enablement, bringing disciplined execution and reliable follow-through from planning through delivery. Our team helps Autodesk teams discover, adopt, extend, and contribute to shared platform technology. You will partner with the Principal Program Manager and broader team to advance cross-functional work, collaborating with product, engineering, operations, and other business partners. You will build trusted working relationships, establish clear ownership and communication paths, and ensure stakeholders have the context and visibility needed to act. You will own the day-to-day planning, dependency and risk management, and stakeholder follow-through for assigned programs or discrete workstreams within broader initiatives. You will resolve day-to-day delivery issues independently, recommend options when tradeoffs arise, and escalate decisions that affect strategy, priorities, multiple programs, or require senior alignment. This is a program management role with a strong business analysis and data component. You will use process analysis, requirements clarification, metrics, and reporting to improve execution and help teams make better decisions. Success in this role requires accountability, sound judgment, proactive communication, and comfort navigating ambiguity.
Responsibilities
- Independently lead the day-to-day execution of assigned cross-functional programs and discrete workstreams, maintaining clear outcomes, plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, actions, and decisions.
- Keep work moving from alignment through implementation by driving accountability and follow-through, resolving issues, and escalating when broader decisions, authority, or senior alignment are required.
- Build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams, clarify roles and decision paths, and ensure stakeholders have the context and visibility needed to act.
- Maintain lightweight roadmaps, trackers, and reliable sources of truth that make progress, ownership, priorities, dependencies, and risks visible.
- Manage recurring operating rhythms for planning, review, learning, and continuous improvement, ensuring decisions and actions are documented and carried forward.
- Proactively identify risks, gaps, competing priorities, and dependencies; recommend practical actions; and help prevent issues from becoming blockers.
- Apply business analysis and data skills to clarify requirements, map processes, identify patterns, and define useful metrics and reporting that improve execution and decision-making.
- Use AI tools responsibly to improve program execution, analysis, communication, documentation, and reporting, and identify opportunities to reduce manual effort or improve quality.
- Establish the foundation by learning the team’s operating model, active programs, stakeholders, tools, and planning and reporting rhythms within the first 30–60 days.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders and develop an understanding of their roles, needs, dependencies, and communication preferences within the first 30–60 days.
- Assume ownership of day-to-day tracking and follow-through for assigned work, including milestones, dependencies, risks, actions, and decisions within the first 30–60 days.
- Begin managing recurring operating meetings and establish reliable working views of program status, ownership, priorities, and risks within the first 30–60 days.
- Assess program data, measures, processes, and documentation to identify the highest-value gaps and improvement opportunities within the first 30–60 days.
- Create visibility and momentum by ensuring assigned programs have clear outcomes, plans, ownership, dependencies, risks, and consistent follow-through by 60–90 days.
- Ensure recurring operating meetings run reliably and result in clear decisions, actions, and measurable progress between sessions by 60–90 days.
- Establish a useful reporting or dashboard approach that connects program status, risks, and metrics to intended outcomes by 60–90 days.
- Ensure stakeholders receive timely, relevant communication and have the context and visibility needed to fulfill their commitments by 60–90 days.
- Ensure routine delivery and stakeholder issues are resolved independently, with appropriate escalation when broader or senior alignment is required by 60–90 days.
- Scale impact by ensuring assigned programs move forward predictably through independent leadership within established priorities and operating standards by 6 months.
- Ensure stakeholders have a reliable experience working with the team because ownership, communication, commitments, and follow-through are clear and consistent by 6 months.
- Ensure program metrics and reporting provide trusted evidence of progress, health, risks, and outcomes for planning and decision-making by 6 months.
- Implement lightweight, repeatable processes that improve consistency, stakeholder experience, and delivery without adding unnecessary bureaucracy by 6 months.
- Contribute lessons from assigned programs to practical improvements in the broader Platform Enablement operating system, including responsible uses of AI and automation by 6 months.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in program management, project management, operations, business analysis, or a related role with direct responsibility for cross-functional delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional work from planning through execution, including managing milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-through.
- Strong program management judgment, ownership, and independence, with the ability to maintain momentum and escalate appropriately.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to build trust, create alignment, and influence across technical and non-technical teams without direct authority.
- Business analysis and systems-thinking skills, including process analysis, requirements clarification, synthesis, and understanding interdependencies and downstream impacts.
- Strong analytical and data skills, including experience defining meaningful metrics and creating useful dashboards or reporting from structured data.
- Experience using program management and collaboration platforms such as Airtable, along with comfort learning new technical tools and concepts in a software or technology environment.
- Practical experience using AI tools responsibly to improve program management, analysis, communication, or operational workflows.
- This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.
Skills
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Operations
- Business Analysis
- Cross-functional Delivery
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Process Analysis
- Requirements Clarification
- Systems Thinking
- Data Analysis
- Metrics Definition
- Dashboard Creation
- Reporting
- Airtable
- AI Tools
Location
- Canada remote
- Portland
- Novi
- Atlanta
- Denver
Work Type
- Remote
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Salary/Compensations
- $95,200 - $170,610
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Financial benefits
- Time away
- Everyday wellness
- Annual cash bonuses
- Stock grants
- Comprehensive benefits package
About the Company
- At Autodesk, we build tools that help innovators design and make a better world.
- We offer a flexible, inclusive environment where people can do meaningful work and grow their careers.
- 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!
Equal 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.
- We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive.
