Senior Research Program Manager

Autodesk Research is hiring a Senior Research Program Manager to lead a portfolio of forward-looking construction research programs.

You will sit at the intersection of research strategy, construction domain expertise, AI-enabled workflows, and cross-functional program execution, helping teams move from ambiguous opportunity areas to structured plans, measurable progress, and strategic impact.

Autodesk Research explores advances that may shape products and customer workflows five to ten years into the future, investigating how intelligent, agentic, and AI-driven systems can transform how ideas move from concept to reality.

This is not a traditional Technical Program Manager role. Research Program Managers are horizontally focused connectors who organize programs, manage ambiguity, coordinate stakeholders, and link research work to Autodesk's broader business outcomes.

• Manage a program spanning multiple related projects, experiments, prototypes, and partnerships across complex, extended timelines
• Build and maintain integrated program plans across workstreams, defining scope, objectives, milestones, dependencies, and owners
• Align the portfolio with Research priorities, Autodesk's long-term construction vision, available capacity, and strategic outcomes
• Help teams prioritize when opportunities compete for attention, staffing, or funding
• Coordinate across researchers, engineers, designers, product teams, external partners, and leadership

• Project delivery, Preconstruction, planning, estimating, scheduling, procurement, field execution, and handover
• BIM/VDC workflows, Model coordination, construction documentation, site data, and connected data environments
• Emerging technologies, Reality capture, digital twins, construction analytics, and AI-enabled decision support
• AEC platforms, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Revit, Navisworks, Forma, Tandem, or adjacent platforms

• Support programs exploring how AI, generative AI, intelligent agents, simulation, and connected workflows can transform construction
• Help researchers structure AI-enabled workstreams with clear milestones, experiments, and evaluation plans
• Coordinate research integrating BIM, schedules, reality capture, field data, and other construction information sources
• Translate emerging technical work into clear narratives, decision briefs, and next-step recommendation
• Use AI tools in your own practice to improve planning, synthesis, documentation, and follow-through

• Track program budgets, planned expenditures, and resource needs in partnership with leadership and finance
• Support annual and quarterly planning, goal-setting, and resource prioritization
• Coordinate external collaborations, customer engagements, and academic or industry partnerships

• 8+ years of experience in program management, project management, research operations, construction technology, or a related field
• Experience managing complex, multi-workstream programs with diverse stakeholders, dependencies, and deliverables
• Working knowledge of construction workflows, including preconstruction, BIM/VDC, scheduling, field execution, or construction data management
• Demonstrated ability to create structure in ambiguous, newly forming areas
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including executive-ready summaries and dashboards
• Strong facilitation and influencing skills across multidisciplinary teams
• Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, Slack, or equivalent platforms
• Ability to work effectively across global teams and time zones

Within the first 6-12 months, success means delivering:

• A clear operating rhythm: A trusted and consistent approach to managing the construction research program
• Portfolio visibility: An integrated view of priorities, workstreams, milestones, risks, and decisions
• Strong stakeholder relationships: Effective partnerships with researchers, engineers, product stakeholders, and Research leadership
• Improved accountability: Greater visibility and ownership without reducing research velocity
• Strategic alignment: A clearer connection between construction research and Autodesk's strategic outcomes
• Knowledge reuse: Better documentation and reuse of research artifacts, insights, and decisions
• AI-enabled operations: Active, demonstrable use of AI tools to improve program operations

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 - it's at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you're an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Welcome to Autodesk! Our software creates extraordinary things every day: from the greenest buildings to the cleanest cars, through the smartest factories and hit movies. We help innovators bring their ideas to life, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We are very proud of our culture at Autodesk; it is at the heart of everything we do. Our culture guides how we work and how we behave toward one another, influences our interactions with our customers and partners, and defines our image to the world.

As an Autodeskien, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world, designed and made for everyone. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

Salary transparency / Transparence Salariale

Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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