Principal Program Lead

Principal Program Lead

At Autodesk, we provide our customers the technology to make anything. We are on a journey of significant enterprise growth. To maintain and accelerate our trajectory, we need exceptional transformation program leaders who can drive key organizational transformations across our go-to-market organization. We are seeking an experienced Principal Program Lead to support Autodesk's Transformation Management Office. This role is critical for Autodesk to achieve growth and cross-functional alignment. You will serve as the strategic integration layer for large, complex initiatives, partnering with our senior go-to-market leadership team to understand organizational goals, ensure cohesive planning, and prepare the business for continued change and evolution.

This role requires understanding the business and people strategy drivers across Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success, and ensuring transformations are delivered cohesively, with a high degree of confidentiality and cross-functional partnership. The ideal candidate will be able to see transformation as a system, diagnose and structure ambiguous problems, facilitate complex decisions, and help maintain consistent approaches to delivering transformations. Reporting to the Director of TMO, you will play a central role in driving alignment to strategic goals, ensuring consistency across enterprise transformations, improving processes around organizational impacts, and ensuring change delivers measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Drive transformation program strategy and cross-functional execution end-to-end, partnering across Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, and operations to deliver key organizational transformations and business results.
• Understand business drivers and customer segments and translate to program approach and outcomes to ensure organizational transformations deliver both growth and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including business analysis, enablement, technical delivery, and change management to define clear program scope, objectives, success metrics, and deliverables.
• Own cross-program integration and visibility, actively identifying and managing interdependencies and handoffs across workstreams, rapidly diagnosing where transformations are stuck, structuring ambiguous problems into actionable frameworks that surface root causes and drive resolution, and escalating risks to the appropriate leader or steering committee.
• Facilitate decision-making by establishing clear decision rights and escalation protocols and synthesizing complex, conflicting information into executive-ready recommendations with clear options and trade-offs.
• Manage relationships with senior executives to ensure alignment, visibility, and support for transformation objectives through strategic insights, incisive questions, and demonstrated value-add.
• Develop and refine standards, methodologies, and best practices for managing organizational change that strengthen our transformation capability across the organization and accelerate future change.
• Drive continuous improvement in transformation management processes, tools, and capabilities, fostering innovation and operational excellence.

Minimum Qualifications

The Ideal Candidate

About Autodesk

Amazing things are created every day with our software from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made. We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk it's at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world. When you're an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https : / / benefits.autodesk.com / .

Salary Transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $138,200 and $223,630. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

Diversity & Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here : https : / / www.autodesk.com / company / diversity-and-belonging .