Chief of Staff, Access, PSET

Job ID26WD
101678

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Requisition  Overview The Chief of Staff is a trusted strategic advisor and organizational effectiveness leader to the VP of Access, in our PSET (Platform Services and Emerging Technologies) org. The role connects strategy, leadership, execution, and organizational health to help Access operate as one high-performing organization. It improves decision quality and speed, strengthens collaboration across Autodesk, and turns priorities into measurable outcomes.

This is a high-trust leadership role requiring sound judgment, executive communication, operational rigor, and influence without direct authority. It is not primarily an executive assistant, meeting coordinator, or technical program manager; its primary accountability is improving how the organization leads, aligns, decides, and delivers.

This position will report to our VP, Access and is 100% remote based in the U.S., preferably in the western region. Candidates need to be able to travel 6-7 times per year, globally.

The Access team makes better decisions, acts faster, works more effectively as one leadership team, builds stronger partnerships, and delivers greater strategic impact because this role exists.

Responsibilities Serve as a candid thought partner on priorities, investments, organizational design, leadership dynamics, and cross-functional tradeoffs; anticipate risks and opportunities before they require escalation

Focus the VP on high-leverage decisions and relationships; prepare executive recommendations and narratives, clarify delegated authority, and ensure effective leadership handovers during absences or transitions

Partner with Staff, Finance, TPMs, and product/engineering leads to connect Strategic Realization (SR), annual and quarterly planning, OKRs, and capacity decisions to a coherent set of priorities

Make outcomes, owners, dependencies, tradeoffs, and risks visible; convene decisions when priorities conflict and strengthen executive reporting with evidence of business and customer impact

Own and evolve the Access Staff and Extended Leadership Team (XLT) operating rhythm: tactical and strategic forums, business reviews, offsites, and effective asynchronous collaboration

Facilitate productive debate and decisions; maintain clear decision owners, rationale, tradeoffs, action owners, and follow-through. Build a cohesive leadership team through retrospectives and working norms

Develop trusted relationships with PSET Chiefs of Staff and partners across COO, Trust, Developer Enablement, Analytics & Data, and product/industry organizations

Orchestrate executive interlocks that surface shared priorities and dependencies, resolve conflict, assign cross-org commitments, and represent Access accurately in broader planning and leadership forums

Lead or sponsor a small portfolio of high-impact, cross-domain initiatives with explicit charters, outcome metrics, owners, experiments, and decisions to scale, revise, or stop.

Drive durable improvements in AI-native innovation, operational effectiveness, governance, and collaboration

Partner with HR and Access leadership to convert employee insights into actions; strengthen organizational identity, belonging, recognition, leadership development, and cross-domain engagement

Facilitate Staff/XLT offsites and organizational retrospectives; coordinate organizational change and talent-planning processes while respecting HR and executive decision ownership

Shape consistent, audience-specific stories for executive reviews, PSET leadership forums, interlocks, All Hands, AMAs, and organizational updates

Translate complex platform and engineering work into customer and business outcomes; communicate the why, key decisions, implications, and required actions so leadership messages match operating reality

Partner with Finance and operational leaders on business reviews, capacity, resource tradeoffs, and a reliable integrated view of commitments, dependencies, risks, and initiatives

Maintain lightweight decision and knowledge systems in Confluence, SharePoint, and relevant tools; streamline duplicative processes, strengthen delegation and handovers, and automate low-value work Directly owns: leadership cadence and operating mechanisms;
Staff decision/action governance; interlock orchestration; selected strategic transformations; executive and organizational communication coordination

Partners on: strategy and SR planning; investments, budget and capacity; org design and talent processes; risk management; executive…