Principal Product Manager

Autodesk

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Work type: On-site
Location: Portland, ORSan Francisco, CABoston, MADenver, CO
Salary: $142,425–$259,050 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 11 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About Autodesk

Autodesk is a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, enabling users to imagine, design, and create a better world.

Autodesk currently has 21 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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As a Principal Product Manager, PPL Technology within the People Insights & Solution Design team, you will manage the technology portfolio for People & Places. You will be responsible for transitioning fragmented systems into a seamless experience and intelligence layer built above Workday and other systems of record. Your daily work involves translating ambiguous employee and business problems into clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria while managing your assigned domain's roadmap and lifecycle. You will collaborate with engineering and design teams to oversee build versus buy decisions, vendor contract consolidations, and AI capability integrations. The role requires high learning agility to navigate evolving tools and technical fluency in areas like Talent Management or Employee Support. You must proactively identify risks, define KPIs, and ensure that logic remains owned by the company rather than captured by external vendors.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $221750 from 282 postings across 51 companies.

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Skills

Workday AI User Stories Acceptance Criteria KPIs Dashboards Systems of Record

What you'll do

Own the product strategy and roadmap for an assigned People & Places domain portfolio.
Translate ambiguous employee and business problems into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Manage vendor contracts and tools by driving renewal, divestment, and consolidation decisions based on business cases.
Develop the experience and intelligence layer above systems of record to ensure Autodesk owns its data logic.
Partner with engineering teams daily to act as the accountable product voice from requirements through launch.
Evaluate AI capabilities to ensure they are trained on internal data rather than captured by vendors.
Drive user adoption and build stakeholder alignment during the transition to a centralized technology model.
Define and track domain KPIs, building dashboards that connect product metrics to broader talent strategies.

What we're looking for

Experience in product management from problem definition through delivery, adoption, and optimization.
Ability to translate ambiguous employee and business problems into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Proven ability to build trust and alignment across technical and business stakeholders without relying on direct authority.
Demonstrated learning agility to quickly acquire new domain and technical fluency as tools evolve.
Experience managing product strategy and roadmaps for complex portfolios using build versus buy principles.
Ability to identify portfolio risks, redundancies, and opportunities early to provide proactive recommendations to leadership.
Proficiency in using AI for research, analysis, prioritization, and execution.

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