Senior User Experience Designer

Looking for a career that combines innovative technology and creativity, ultimately helping people to imagine, design and make a better world? Are you passionate about Human Centred Design and solving complex problems for customers? Do you thrive in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment? 

If that sounds like you, read on!

We are seeking a talented Senior User Experience Designer to work on our next-generation cloud solutions serving the construction industry. Your role will be about synthesizing your learnings and creating solutions that both solves customer pain points and meets business objectives. You will actively champion human centred design and are comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.  ​ 

This is a great opportunity to work as part of a fantastic team, contributing to some of the most exciting projects here at Autodesk.

This job can be based in our Sheffield offices with a hybrid working model.

Responsibilities:                           

• Create compelling artifacts (wireframes, conceptual diagrams, task flows, storyboards, prototypes, documentation, etc.) that outline present conditions and proposed solutions to gain strategic alignment and encourage innovation within and across the organization 
• Compare, contrast, and prioritize among alternative approaches to meet design objectives, using judgment to suggest optimal solutions to design problems that balance customer learning needs, business constraints, and technological realities 
• Assist in customer research activities during the planning, strategy development, and early design of solutions  
• Meet with customers and development partners to validate designs and make iterative improvements 
• Partner with product managers, engineers, researchers and other designers to define great experiences from initial concept through successful implementation 
• Partner with development team to drive successful implementation of the user experience design specifications 
• Advocate and contribute to the maturing of experience design discipline at the team and company levels 
• Leading design-thinking exercises to break through organizational silos and collaboratively solve complex design challenges

Required qualifications and experience:

• 4+ years of professional design experience
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with experience in working cross-functional teams in problem definition and analysis, understanding customer workflows, creating prototypes and designs that solve customer problem
• Quality portfolio of recent professional User Experience project work 
• Ability to visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity, from high-level wireframes or mock-ups to conceptual presentations to highly technical documents and diagrams
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distil complex ideas to their essence 
• Comfortable in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders, can adjust to changing priorities 
• Skilled in human-centred design methods and practice 
• Demonstrated experience in research - interviews, ethnography, user testing, etc. 
• Ability to work on a of range of projects, from vague to well-defined, simple to complex, implementation to innovation and drive them from concept to conclusion 
• Bachelor’s or equivalent work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience applying UX within Agile development environments
• Experience working with 3D graphics and/or Autodesk products
• Experience with user research, analytics and remote testing platforms
• Experience in large, distributed, enterprise organisations

Five signs you are a great candidate:

• Passionate about designing things people love to use  
• Brave in the face of complexity and adversity 
• Naturally curious and proactively asks questions to increase understanding of customer needs and business strategy  
• A systems thinker – loves exploring how different parts of a complex system fit together and can be made to work seamlessly 
• Positive, can-do approach that invites collaboration 

Along with your CV, please submit a portfolio, or provide a link to an online portfolio, showing examples of your previous work.

About Autodesk:
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 – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency:

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.