Principal Experience Designer, Agents and Workflows

Autodesk•Boston, MA

About The Position

At Autodesk, the company helps customers design and make anything, focusing on insight-driven product development, seamless digital experiences, and AI-powered innovation. They are seeking a Principal Experience Designer, Agents and Workflows to join the Applied Intelligence design team within the Experience Foundations organization of the Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) Division. This is a strategic design role focused on defining the core interaction model for Autodesk’s future agentic product experiences, particularly for notebook-style and workflow-oriented surfaces. The designer will be accountable for shaping how users initiate, iterate, and operationalize work with AI, establishing intuitive, contextual, and outcome-driven human–AI collaboration patterns. The role requires deep interaction design craft across emerging paradigms like search, data-informed personalization, and context-aware experiences. The designer will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Personalization, and Content Design teams, including those in adjacent AI-focused spaces, leveraging existing user research and experience architecture to transform complex system capabilities into clear, usable, and trustworthy experiences, while also modeling strong cross-functional ways of working.

Requirements

8+ years of professional UX or product design experience with demonstrated impact designing complex digital products
Proven experience designing sophisticated interaction models, workflows, and end-to-end user experiences for software products in AI-assisted, agent-like, search-driven, or context-aware experiences
Demonstrated ability to translate complex systems, behavioral signals, or business logic into simple and intuitive user experiences
Strong portfolio showing hands-on design craft, systems thinking, and high-quality execution across ambiguous product problems
Strong ability to influence without authority and align partners around a clear experience direction
Proven ability to define experience strategy and influence product direction beyond feature-level design
Track record of influencing cross-functional partners and driving alignment across Design, Product, Engineering, and Research
Comfort working in fast-moving environments with evolving AI capabilities, product requirements, and design constraints

Nice To Haves

Experience designing enterprise or workflow-heavy SaaS products
Experience designing agentic or AI-assisted interaction models
Experience shaping or contributing to design systems that support complex workflows
Experience mentoring designers and elevating design standards within a team

Responsibilities

Lead the design of the core interaction model for notebook-style, workflow-oriented agent experiences
Define how users initiate, refine, and operationalize work with AI across multi-step workflows and evolving contexts
Establish human–AI collaboration patterns that feel intuitive, transparent, and outcome-driven rather than task-driven
Design end-to-end flows, interaction patterns, states, and behaviors for agent-assisted experiences across key product surfaces
Translate complex system capabilities, search behaviors, contextual inputs, and personalized signals into usable and understandable product experiences
Create detailed wireframes, prototypes, and interaction designs that communicate workflow logic, adaptive behavior, edge cases, and system responses
Design interaction patterns that help users understand what the system is doing, when it is acting, and how to guide, refine, confirm, or override it
Contribute to design patterns and guidance for agentic and generative UI experiences that can scale across Autodesk’s future product experiences
Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Content Design, and Applied Intelligence teams to bring workflow and agent experience concepts from idea through delivery
Leverage existing research and experience architecture to inform design decisions while extending patterns for new agentic workflows and surfaces
Ensure experiences meet a high bar for usability, accessibility, trust, and inclusive design
Influence product and experience decisions through strong design craft, clear rationale, and collaboration without formal authority
Model thoughtful, customer-centered ways of working to improve clarity, alignment, and execution across complex initiatives