Sr. Director Of Product Management, Building Design Product Line

Sr. Director Of Product Management

Are you passionate about improving the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry through technology? Would you be excited to drive the strategy and Product Management team for Revit, an industry-leading building information model software serving hundreds of thousands of customers globally, as well as tools for structural analysis, structural detailing, Mechanical/Electrical/Plumbing (MEP) fabrication, and sustainability analysis? We are looking for a Sr. Director of Product Management to lead our Product Management and Product Owner team for the Building Design product portfolio.

In this role, you will be responsible for creating a compelling software product portfolio vision, and a strategy for achieving the vision that delivers compelling value for our customers and achieves business outcomes. It will involve managing a portfolio of software products at different stages of their lifecycle, and how to best evolve this technology into the future. You will lead a global team of Product Managers and Product Owners who partner with experience design and engineering across the architecture, structural engineering, and MEP software engineering businesses. You will partner closely with peers in adjacent product organizations, Engineering leadership, Industry Strategy, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success.

As this is a global role, you will work across multiple time zones and will travel up to 20% of the time for in-person meetings such as conferences, team offsites, and customer visits. This position is hybrid remote and can be based in the US or Canada, but we have a preference for hybrid to our Boston office.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy

• Lead and ensure a holistic, cohesive product strategy across the architecture, structural engineering, and MEP engineering, spanning desktop and cloud technology
• Partner closely with Industry Strategy and Sales to align on market opportunities
• Given numerous opportunities, drive focuses on what will make the most positive impact on customer needs, as well as drive adoption and business impact
• Create and maintain roadmaps focused on customer outcomes, managing the plan from concept through execution, delivery, and post-release adoption and business success
• Ensure the establishment and tracking against strategic objectives, key results, and product health KPIs

Leadership & Team Development

• Lead, inspire, manage, and develop a team of Product Managers and Product Owners across a global organization
• Ensure collaboration and excellence in the practice of product management
• Be a role model for communication with customers and internal stakeholders, from telling our strategy, to facilitating alignment towards shared goals, and handling challenging situations
• Ensure self and team is recognized as trusted partners internally and externally with customers

Customer Engagement

• Develop and manage relationships with customers across firms of all sizes and across the globe
• Articulate product value to customers while differentiating products from competitive offerings
• Strongly represent the Building Design products and broader Autodesk strategy at customer sites, conferences, and other external venues

Product Discovery & Product Delivery

• Ensure excellence in product discovery to identify key customer problems that are most critical to solve, quickly understand value and viability risks, and work with the engineering leadership to successfully deliver solutions that address these problems
• Work with Autodesk product teams, within the direct product group and across Autodesk, to prioritize requirements, make trade-offs, and support release plans
• Ensure solid decision making for product decisions that is fueled by data, both qualitative and quantitative
• Foster alignment with stakeholders across the company and maximize joint outcomes

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of relevant experience including 5+ years of experience in software product management leadership positions, including creating and driving software product roadmaps from conception to launch
• 5+ years of experience managing a team of Product Managers and/or Product Owners
• BS Degree in Architecture, Engineering, Computer Science, Business Management or equivalent practical experience
• Experience working with global software engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry
• Knowledge and familiarity with parametric BIM tools like Revit and the process of building information modelling
• MBA degree