Chief of Staff, Access, PSET

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.

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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.

• 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…