Director, Platform Operations (Portfolio & M&A)

Job Requisition ID #

25WD88556

Position Overview

Do you thrive at the intersection of data, strategy, and execution?  Are you ready to influence how an entire organization plans, builds, and scales?

At Autodesk, we believe that great product organizations aren’t just built on creativity — they’re built on operational excellence. We’re looking for a Director of Product Operations who is passionate about unlocking the full potential of our platform product teams by building the connective tissue that ties strategy to execution, insight to action, and teams to each other.

Our investment in data-driven decision-making has strengthened the foundation of our product organization, but the next evolution demands more strategic, forward-looking product leadership. As AI, ML, and the exponential growth of data redefine how we deliver value, our greatest opportunity is to mature how we think, plan, and operate as a product organization. In this role, you will architect the systems, insights, and operating models that enable proactive, strategic product management at scale — empowering teams to align on the right priorities, make smarter decisions, and drive meaningful, measurable impact.

We’re looking for a bold, collaborative leader who thrives at both 30,000 feet and ground level — someone who sees patterns, solves complex problems, and creates environments where every team member can do their best work. If you’re a builder at heart, a strategic thinker, and someone who believes operations is a key enabler of innovation, we’d love to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Operational Strategy & Leadership: Develop and drive the overall product operations strategy, partnering closely with the Sr. Director and platform senior leadership at large

• Strategic Planning: Drive the strategic planning process translating our vision into a clear product roadmap, aligning delivery with platform goals, and establishing feedback loops to ensure continuous improvement

• Product Development Lifecycle Optimization & Process Excellence: Create frameworks, systems, and dashboards that make the product development lifecycle smoother, faster, and more transparent — from planning to delivery

• Insight and Measurement: Establish scalable feedback loops with customers, sales, marketing, and support teams; build a system for delivering actionable insights back to product teams

• Product Team Enablement: Create onboarding programs, training, tools, templates, and playbooks that empower product managers and cross-functional partners to move faster and smarter

• Culture Building: Evangelize the product operations practice across platform. Foster an environment of operational excellence, continuous learning, and psychological safety within the product organization

• Lead M&A integration: Lead a team driving our M&A practice for platform, running diligence through full integration. Looking for ways to continually improve the time to value of each deal

• M&A Product Leadership: Provide product leadership in the M&A process to define how newly acquired companies gain value out of our platform systems, ensuring the full deal value is met

• M&A Technical Guidance: Partner with engineering, and product teams to assess architectural fit, and define integration pathways, and ensure scalable adoption of platform services

Minimum Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in product management, program management, product management, or a related field within a technology company

• 2+ years specifically in product operations

• 3+ years in a leadership or people management role, with experience leading and developing high-performing teams

• Deep understanding of the product development lifecycle and how to support it operationally at scale

• Demonstrated technical fluency and ability to partner with engineering teams to evaluate system architecture and ensure scalable adoption of platform services

• Strong analytical mindset with experience building reporting frameworks and interpreting data to drive decisions

• Exceptional skills in process design, optimization, and change management

• Excellent communication skills — both written and verbal — with the ability to influence across all levels of the organization to drive timely decisions

• Acts as a catalyst for others and is action-oriented and driven in high-growth, and ambiguous environments

• Experience with tools like Jira, Confluence, Airtable, ProductBoard, Looker, PowerBI, or similar is a plus

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About Autodesk

Welcome to 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 – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

 

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $182,200 and $294,800. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada-BC based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $167,800 and $230,670. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on 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.

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