Technical Program Manager, AI/ML

Job Requisition ID #

24WD77249

Position Overview

At Autodesk, we believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers an opportunity to revolutionize design and make experience for our customers. Autodesk’s commitment to realizing this opportunity has received sponsorship from the office of the CTO and executive leaders of the product organizations.

As a Technical Program Manager focusing on AI & Machine Learning (ML) platform development initiatives, you will be in an impactful position for our highly visible, critical enterprise-level efforts, working within our AI/ML strategy and how the technology is adopted across our organization. You will be part of our Platform Services and Emerging Technologies (PSET) group, partnering with our Research, Engineering, Product Management, and other cross-functional teams to manage roadmaps, define milestones and success metrics, manage program scope, ensure alignment with priorities, and build scalable, secure, reliable, efficient AI/ML products and platform.

You will drive programs and workstreams directly contributing to a company-wide critical AI initiative. We believe you will be an important contributor to realizing ADSK’s AI/ML vision to establish market share and turn AI/ML into a core company technology that revolutionizes products and affects our industry markets. You will impact our roadmap for the next 3–5 years and hold engineering teams accountable for overarching delivery goals.

Location: Hybrid – Portland, OR or Vancouver, ON

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Autodesk’s product, technology, and platform leaders to shape our AI/ML platform solution strategy and operationalize it, (including Large Language Model, Large Foundational Model efforts) by partnering with other TPMs, multiple stakeholders and technology leaders in determining the best technical implementation methods

• Facilitate alignment between Autodesk divisional leadership, divisions, teams, functions, and partners.

• Demonstrate excellent judgment, anticipate bottlenecks, lead escalations, make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.

• Partner with other SMEs to simplify the technically complex, and drive well-educated data-driven decisions across product, engineering, design, and data science representatives

• Define the outcomes, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies of the programs.

• Drive alignment of cross-organization initiatives through OKR planning, dependency management, and impediment removal

• Manage risks: drive risk identification, analysis, and mitigation to address potential roadblocks in partnership with leadership.

• Plan and ensure delivery by engaging with engineering leadership and teams to build and track clear delivery plans

• Update and communicate program progress across organizational boundaries and levels from individual contributors to senior executive

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or other quantitative fields

• Strong technical program management and leadership experience

• Embody and facilitate data-driven decision-making while ensuring an inclusive and collaborative culture

• Previous commercial experience with AI and ML concepts (building, deploying Large Models, setting up cloud infrastructure and data pipelines), and familiarity with common ML libraries

• Approximately 7 plus years of experience as a Technical Program Manager or Technical Product Manager or Software Architect or similar role, with Experience building products based on data, hypotheses, and MVPs by defining and aligning on clear requirements

• Must have experience and expertise to recommend relevant technical solutions within AI/ML technology space, able to be a top advisor who knows the pitfalls through previous hands-on development or launched commercial offerings in this space

• Experience with data visualization tools (Looker, PowerBI, Tableau or similar), source control (e.g., GitHub), ticket management (Jira)

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About Autodesk

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Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $129,900 and $210,100. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $119,600 and $164,450. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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