Senior Experience Designer – Inventor

Are you a savvy UX designer with a passion for creating beautiful, innovative solutions for important, impactful problems? Do you want to grow your career in a global team of passionate design professionals? Autodesk is looking for a Senior Experience Designer to join our Inventor Experience Design (XD) team to help shape the future of product design and manufacturing. 

In this role, you will apply your experience design, product thinking, and research skills to craft the next generation of workflows and capabilities within Autodesk Inventor. You will work closely with a team of talented designers and partners across Product Management, Software Engineering, Architecture, Content Development, and Quality Assurance to create compelling experiences that help customers solve complex “design and make” challenges. 

This role is focused on advancing Inventor for professional mechanical design and documentation workflows while strengthening alignment across the broader Fusion ecosystem. You will be expected to work with greater autonomy, own ambiguous problems from framing through validation, and influence design direction through strong collaboration, clear storytelling, and sound decision-making. A strong candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, highly visible work stream and be energized by creating outcomes that delight customers while meeting business objectives and timelines. 

We are also looking for someone with strong curiosity about AI: a designer eager to explore how AI, automation, and intelligent assistance can improve customer outcomes, reduce friction in complex workflows, and help shape the future of Inventor in a responsible, human-centered way. 

At Autodesk, you will work on some of the most intriguing challenges you have ever seen, be part of a dynamic and collaborative workplace, and have opportunities to engage directly with the Autodesk community. If this sounds like your thing, read on. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead experience design for complex Inventor workflows and features, with a particular focus on design, documentation, and associated mechanical design experiences. 

• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, architects, and fellow designers to frame problems, shape strategy, and define user-centered solutions that balance customer needs, technical constraints, and business goals. 

• Plan, create, and communicate design artifacts across multiple levels of fidelity, including sketches, workflows, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed UX specifications. 

• Translate customer needs, research findings, product goals, and domain complexity into clear interaction models and scalable design directions. 

• Participate in and help drive customer research, usability studies, and other validation activities to deepen understanding of customer workflows, pain points, and opportunities. 

• Prototype and explore AI- and automation-enabled experiences that improve clarity, efficiency, trust, and user control in professional design workflows. 

• Help the team think critically about where AI can create real customer value, and where human judgment, transparency, and precision must remain central to the experience. 

• Communicate design rationale clearly to a wide range of audiences, including engineering, product leadership, quality assurance, sales, and marketing. 

• Contribute actively to design critiques and team rituals, while helping raise the quality bar through thoughtful feedback, mentoring, and strong collaboration. 

• Review implemented features, test plans, and related documentation to help ensure that the shipped experience reflects the intended design outcomes. 

Minimum Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in experience design, UX design, product design, or a related field. 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in UX design or a related field such as human-computer interaction, industrial design, architecture, or mechanical engineering. 

• Strong fundamentals in human-centered design, interaction design, information architecture, and usability best practices. 

• Demonstrated experience designing for complex software workflows, ideally in desktop or professional-grade environments. 

• Experience with Autodesk products, Inventor, or adjacent CAD/CAM technologies such as Fusion, AutoCAD, Mastercam, SOLIDWORKS, Onshape, Creo, or similar platforms. 

• Experience designing solutions for complex, multi-faceted product experiences such as 3D modeling, assemblies, documentation, simulation, or data-rich workflows. 

• Strong proficiency with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or comparable tools. 

• Experience conducting or partnering on user research, including interviews, workflow studies, and usability testing, and applying findings to improve design decisions. 

• Experience working in Agile environments and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to execute against product strategy. 

• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to explain complex or technical topics clearly to non-technical audiences. 

• Ability to influence decisions, drive alignment, and work effectively across disciplines and time zones. 

• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of ambiguous problems, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and drive work from concept through execution. 

• Interest in emerging technology and a clear curiosity about how AI and automation can improve product experiences and customer outcomes. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience designing specifically for Inventor workflows, including mechanical design, assemblies, documentation, or manufacturing-related use cases. 

• Domain familiarity with mechanical engineering workflows, product development processes, or digital manufacturing environments. 

• Experience shaping end-to-end workflows that span multiple surfaces, systems, or tools. 

• Familiarity with design systems and reusable interaction patterns for complex software products. 

• Experience prototyping or evaluating AI-driven interactions, including intelligent assistance, workflow automation, generative experiences, or conversational patterns. 

• Understanding of responsible AI design considerations, including trust, transparency, control, explainability, and human oversight. 

• Experience mentoring other designers or helping raise team quality through critique, guidance, and shared standards. 

• Experience balancing near-term product delivery with longer-term UX strategy and platform cohesion. 

The Ideal Candidate 

• Has strong Inventor or comparable CAD domain awareness and is excited by the challenges of professional design and documentation workflows. 

• Thinks systematically and can connect detailed workflow decisions to larger product, platform, and business outcomes. 

• Is curious, proactive, and comfortable operating in ambiguity. 

• Communicates clearly, influences thoughtfully, and collaborates well across disciplines. 

• Balances speed with quality and can make practical tradeoffs without losing sight of the customer experience. 

• Brings a growth mindset, seek feedback, and help elevate the people around them. 

• Is excited by AI as a design material, not as hype, and wants to explore where it can genuinely improve customer outcomes in ways that are useful, trustworthy, and responsible.