Senior Designer – Inventor

Job Requisition  # 26WD98514 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.

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.

• 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…