Platform Strategy Manager

Autodesk•AMER - United States - Pennsylvania - Offsite/Home, PA

2d•$103,000 - $183,920•Hybrid

About The Position

Join our platform strategy team at Autodesk where you will impact developing a platform strategy while supporting execution through prioritizing and developing strategy for initiatives, identifying and evaluating M&A targets and supporting cross-functional strategy for technology partnerships. You will report to the Director, Platform Strategy. You will be supporting platform strategy initiatives across multiple teams within the platform organization and/or across Autodesk. You will inform business direction for our global platform transformation by informing and influencing sound business strategies that have an impact on platform efforts across all industry verticals. Candidates need to be willing to travel to San Francisco office or other Autodesk locations quarterly or up to monthly.

Requirements

5+ years of related experience
1+ years strategy consulting experience at leading firms with high skills training rigor
Strategy work in tech industry, ideally software/SaaS
Relevant technology fluency
Engineering degree or demonstrated interest or experience in computer/information technology spaces

Nice To Haves

M&A due diligence experience

Responsibilities

Supporting hypothesis generation process on complex initiatives, developing high quality (MECE and relevant) hypothesis tree
Develop and update workplan
Define and execute customer, competitive, market research
Analyze financials, build models
Develop and execute analytical approaches to prove out hypotheses – including interviews, surveys, data analysis
Develop realistic, value adding and implementable recommendations, merging strategic, organizational, technological and cultural requirements
Structure presentations of Director/Sr Director level quality, focusing on creating impact
Build trusted working relationships at the Director/Sr. Director level across the organization
Work with research/analytical teams across to influence relevant analysis and insights are generated, to inform platform strategy initiatives
Create a strategy for the 3-5-year horizon for Autodesk horizontal technologies within Autodesk Platform Services (APS) such as Data, AI/ML, Insights, Developer, Trust, Visualization, and other across Industry vertical capabilities.
Support the strategic evolution of Autodesk products into workflow-centric cloud-based experiences.
Incorporate technology and architectural trends into the 3–5-year strategy by aligning with technology and research leaders
Build a long-term strategy for Autodesk’s developer ecosystem monetization, to accelerate growth and adoption of our product offerings and create an additional revenue stream for Autodesk.
Leverage this to offer specific, high value functionality for our customers above and beyond our standard offerings
Identify and evaluate M&A opportunities to increase the value of the platform and explore new business models related to new offerings