Experience Design Architect

Position Overview As an Experience Design Architect on the Experience Design Architecture team supporting Autodesk Fusion, you will support experience strategy and architecture for AI-driven workflows and agent-based systems. This role exists to bring clarity, coherence, and usability to complex AI experiences; especially where today those experiences feel fragmented or inconsistent. Reporting to the Director of Experience Architecture on the Autodesk Fusion team, you’ll partner closely with product management, engineering, and AI specialists to ensure AI capabilities are understandable, usable, and valuable to customers in the context of professional end-to-end design and manufacturing workflows. This role is intentionally focused: AI experience architecture is your primary job, not an area to grow into. This is an opportunity to do strategic work with industry-wide impact and directly improve how professionals design and make products.Considering candidates based in San Francisco, Portland, Vancouver, or Toronto, with flexibility across the U.S. and Canada.**To be considered, you must include your resume and portfolio with password/access when applying.** ResponsibilitiesDefine experience strategy and information architecture for AI-powered capabilities: including assistants, agent-based workflows, and intelligent automationDesign information models, system hierarchies, and mental models that make AI behavior understandable and navigableEstablish scalable patterns for organizing, naming, surfacing, and sequencing AI-driven information and actionsLead the design of onboarding and learning experiences that explain system capabilities, constraints, and outcomesIdentify fragmentation and inconsistency across AI experiences and drive architectural alignmentUse prototypes, models, and scenarios to test and communicate experience and architecture decisionsPartner closely with product, engineering, and applied AI teams to align system architecture and user-facing structuresFacilitate cross-functional working sessions to align on AI interaction principles, agent behavior, and experience standardsEnsure experience quality through ongoing engagement in reviews and delivery cycles, with a focus on usability, clarity, and customer confidenceMentor designers and help raise organizational fluency around designing effective AI experiencesMinimum Qualifications10+ years of experience in user experience, product, interaction, or service design or related discipline; including experience defining information architecture for complex systemsProven experience with design of AI-powered product functionality: such as AI assistants, agent-based workflows, and/or intelligent systemsStrong understanding of how AI system behavior impacts user mental models, trust, and adoptionTrack record of defining experience architecture and influencing multiple teams to align behind itAbility to clearly communicate complex system behavior to diverse audiences, including executivesDeep experience applying user-centered design practices to ambiguous, technically complex problemsStrong facilitation skills and comfort leading cross functional decision makingAbility to translate technical complexity into clear, user-centered structures and flowsPreferred QualificationsExperience working closely with applied AI, ML, or data science teamsExperience designing multi-agent or orchestration-based systemsExperience establishing AI related experience standards, principles, or design systemsExperience in complex professional software (CAD, manufacturing, engineering, or similar domains)The Ideal CandidateYou think in systems and structuresYou care about how interfaces look and behave as well as how the information behind them is organized, named, and revealed over timeYou’ve designed AI or intelligent systems where information architecture was essential to making the experience usable, and you know how to balance flexibility with clarityLearn MoreAbout AutodeskWelcome 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 usBenefitsFrom 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 Salary transparencySalary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $155,800 and $251,900. 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