Senior User Experience Designer, 3D Content Creation

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a Senior User Experience Designer with a history of working on complex systems such as kinematics, physical simulations, and rendering. Help us build the best content creation tools for film, games, television, and visualization professionals.

As a member of our XD team, you’ll work with a talented team of User Experience Designers, as well as stakeholders from Product Management, Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Content Design, and Quality Assurance, to create outstanding experiences that help creative professionals achieve their artistic vision.

When applying please include your resume and updated portfolio + password.

Responsibilities

• Communicate customer requirements through storytelling, interactive prototypes, and other iterative artifacts which serve as part of a complete visual and functional design specification
• Lead presentations and discussions with customers and internal stakeholders to understand workflow problems and validate designs
• Maintain familiarity with other Autodesk products and competitive products to ensure viability with proposed solutions
• Create & maintain design/interaction patterns and related style sheets to drive consistent customer experiences
• Partner with other User Experience Designers in creating & applying design patterns across the company
• Partner with development teams to help drive successful implementation of design/interaction patterns and deliver quality experiences to our customers

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional design experience
• Ability to visualize and prototype intended solutions at various levels of fidelity, from high-level wireframes or mock-ups to conceptual presentations to highly technical documents and diagrams
• Ability to present designs to a wide range of audiences, including design, software development, quality assurance, marketing, and leadership
• Skilled in human-centered design methods and practice
• Data-driven design experience with a focus on solving customer challenges
• Ability to bring order & simplicity to complex interactions
• Familiarity with customer research methods, including interviewing, contextual inquiry, usability testing, etc.
• Storyboarding and sketching capabilities for rapid design iteration to overcome ambiguity in new workflow development

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in interaction design, new media design, or related/equivalent
• Experience working with 3D design, visualization, or animation software
• Experience working on cloud services
• Experience facilitating working groups with internal stakeholders, partners, and customers
• Experience with APIs and SaaS technologies
• Experience designing tools and workflows that are supported with artificial intelligence