Senior Product Manager, Data Management

Senior Product Manager – Data Management (P4)

Position Overview

Are you passionate about platforms that are changing how businesses operate and grow? Are you curious about how data can break down industry silos, increase collaboration, and create opportunities for innovation? Are you passionate about strategies to build, expand, and manage a data platform ecosystem? We are seeking a curious, data-driven, and strategic storyteller to join Autodesk’s data platform team. Autodesk Design and Make platform offerings are APIs, services, and an ecosystem marketplace that accelerates digital transformation and drives better results.

As a Senior Technical Product Manager for the platform, you will be at the forefront to define and drive a set of large-scale, cross‑company initiatives powered by Data Access Services. These services are used by almost every Autodesk industry vertical product to store and manage CAD data on the cloud and provide granular API access.

In this role, you’ll oversee expanding the service capabilities of the foundational service, Autodesk Data Models, from the lens of the Manufacturing industry. You’ll be required to learn about cloud platform systems and manufacturing software that help design and manufacture consumer and industrial products. Additionally, you will make sure that the foundational services scale to support exabytes of data while operating at low‑latency performance, secure and compliant storage, high resilience, and a delightful developer experience that facilitates onboarding of products onto the platform. You will build roadmaps which not only articulate technical investments but also how they impact business outcomes with a data-driven approach, and work with stakeholders to onboard more data onto the platform, enabling innovation in the Manufacturing industry.

Furthermore, you will work with a pool of talented Engineers, Experience Designers, Product Managers, and Software Architects to deliver best‑in‑class enhancements that meet company objectives and goals. You are expected to be an excellent communicator and comfortable speaking with junior engineers as well as senior executives.

Responsibilities

• Drive the vision and strategy for foundational data management solutions that can scale and perform under demanding read and write operations.
• Lay out an API strategy that enables easier platform onboarding of internal customers.
• Develop and manage relationships with architecture, engineering, and product teams to deliver customer outcomes at scale and low‑latency performance.
• Manage product lifecycle, including product roadmap, release planning, and positioning.
• Work directly with Autodesk product teams and third‑party developer ecosystem to define, prioritize, and plan development of new features and capabilities.
• Articulate platform value to internal stakeholders while differentiating platform from competitive offerings.
• Distill high‑level customer outcomes into low‑level capabilities that are easily understood and executed by engineering teams through detailed Product Requirement Documents (PRD).

Minimum Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Experience in building data management solutions at scale and with low‑latency performance.
• Experience in platform cost optimization strategies and mitigation plans.
• 5+ years of product management experience in a SaaS/Technology company building platforms.
• Passion for data and finding ways for it to be organized, accessed, and used to address customer problems.
• Ability to easily articulate complex technical and business concepts in simple terms.
• Ability to take high‑level outcomes and distill them into low‑level requirements.
• Strong prioritization, relationship building, and organization skills with exceptional storytelling.
• At ease leading and influencing cross‑functional teams and junior team members.
• Experience and comfort managing stakeholders, risk, and ambiguity.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with a global team and travel for work on occasion.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS Degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• Experience in launching platform capabilities (such as APIs, SDKs) and driving platform adoption.
• Exposure to working with software architects and engineers to build a world‑class data platform (services and APIs).
• Knowledge and familiarity with CAD design & make domain and tools like Revit, AutoCAD, Fusion, Inventor, etc.
• Familiarity with Scrum/Agile methodologies.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity

At Autodesk, we are 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 charact