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Principal UX Researcher

Principal UX Researcher

Autodesk • Toronto, ON, CAN
30+ days ago
Salary
CA$117,000.00–CA$210,540.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Position Overview

Our team is reimagining how customers connect design, make, and operate workflows into a continuous value cycle, improving how work gets done across complex operational environments. As a Principal Experience Design Researcher, you will lead research that helps shape this future, focused on how complex operational ecosystems function and come together to deliver measurable outcomes.

This role operates at the intersection of products, platforms, and real-world operations, where owners, operators, engineers, contractors, and partners must coordinate across systems, workflows, and data. You will work in ambiguous, system-level problem spaces to uncover unmet needs, define future personas, and shape experiences that enable more efficient, resilient, and data-driven operations.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research to identify and define emerging and future personas across the operations lifecycle

  • Map how roles such as facility managers, production leaders, engineers, operators, contractors, and partners collaborate across systems and organizational boundaries

  • Clarify how work gets done today and how it should evolve to support more connected, outcome-driven operations across an ecosystem of stakeholders

  • Analyze how multiple stakeholders interact across tools, systems, and industry solutions throughout the lifecycle

  • Identify breakdowns caused by fragmented systems, siloed data, and misaligned workflows across teams and organizations

  • Define and drive end-to-end mixed-methods research programs across interconnected platforms and services, supporting the full product lifecycle

  • Apply a range of research methods, including foundational discovery, evaluative research, and longitudinal studies

  • Synthesize insights from research, analytics, and business data into clear, actionable recommendations

  • Adapt approaches to address multi-layered systems that span people, processes, and interdependent organizations

  • Translate insights into clear, actionable recommendations that influence product and platform strategy

  • Connect research to customer outcomes, such as efficiency, uptime, cost, resilience, and sustainability

  • Partner with product and business teams to identify opportunities and drive research-informed strategies that support adoption and long-term value

  • Identify opportunities for innovation in how Autodesk enables connected operations

  • Partner with leaders across design, product, engineering, go-to-market, and sales to shape product vision, design direction, and key business decisions

  • Influence decisions across platforms, products, and domains through compelling storytelling

  • Design and facilitate workshops that support ideation, alignment, and strategic decision-making with stakeholders

  • Establish and scale research frameworks and best practices for complex, system-level work

  • Mentor others and help teams adopt evidence-driven, human-centered approaches

  • Increase the visibility and impact of research across the organization

Minimum Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in UX, product, or experience design research

  • Expertise in qualitative and quantitative methods, with a strong mixed-method approach

  • Proven ability to lead research in complex, ambiguous, and cross-functional environments

  • Experience influencing strategy across multiple teams or product areas

  • Strong communication and storytelling skills, including experience engaging senior stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working on platforms, ecosystems, or enterprise-scale systems

  • Background in operations, industrial workflows, or service design

  • Experience researching multi-stakeholder environments or complex user ecosystems

  • Familiarity with industries such as AEC, manufacturing, or facilities management

  • Experience defining personas, journeys, and systems-level experience frameworks

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Aperçu du poste

Notre équipe repense la façon dont les clients connectent les flux de travail de conception, de fabrication et d’exploitation dans un cycle de valeur continu, afin d’améliorer l’exécution du travail dans des environnements opérationnels complexes. À titre de chercheur(euse) principal(e) en design de l’expérience, vous dirigerez des travaux de recherche qui contribueront à façonner cet avenir, en mettant l’accent sur le fonctionnement des écosystèmes opérationnels complexes et leur capacité à produire des résultats mesurables.

Ce poste se situe à l’intersection des produits, des plateformes et des opérations réelles, où les propriétaires, exploitants, ingénieurs, entrepreneurs et partenaires doivent coordonner leurs activités à travers différents systèmes, flux de travail et ensembles de données. Vous travaillerez dans des contextes ambigus et à l’échelle des systèmes afin de découvrir des besoins non satisfaits, de définir les personas de demain et de concevoir des expériences favorisant des opérations plus efficaces, résilientes et axées sur les données.

Responsabilités

  • Diriger des recherches visant à identifier et définir les personas émergents et futurs tout au long du cycle de vie des opérations

  • Cartographier la manière dont les gestionnaires d’installations, responsables de production, ingénieurs, opérateurs, entrepreneurs et partenaires collaborent à travers les systèmes et les frontières organisationnelles

  • Clarifier la manière dont le travail est accompli aujourd’hui et comment il devrait évoluer afin de soutenir des opérations plus connectées et orientées vers les résultats dans un écosystème de parties prenantes

  • Analyser les interactions entre de multiples intervenants à travers les outils, systèmes et solutions sectorielles tout au long du cycle de vie

  • Identifier les problèmes causés par des systèmes fragmentés, des données cloisonnées et des flux de travail mal alignés entre les équipes et les organisations

  • Définir et diriger des programmes de recherche de bout en bout utilisant des méthodes mixtes à travers des plateformes et services interconnectés, en soutenant l’ensemble du cycle de vie produit

  • Utiliser diverses méthodes de recherche, notamment la recherche exploratoire fondamentale, la recherche évaluative et les études longitudinales

  • Synthétiser les enseignements tirés de la recherche, des analyses et des données d’affaires en recommandations claires et concrètes

  • Adapter les approches de recherche afin de répondre à des systèmes multicouches couvrant les personnes, les processus et les organisations interdépendantes

  • Traduire les constats en recommandations concrètes influençant la stratégie produit et plateforme

  • Relier la recherche aux résultats clients, tels que l’efficacité, le temps de disponibilité, les coûts, la résilience et la durabilité

  • Collaborer avec les équipes produit et affaires afin d’identifier des opportunités et de développer des stratégies appuyées par la recherche favorisant l’adoption et la création de valeur à long terme

  • Identifier des occasions d’innovation dans la manière dont Autodesk soutient les opérations connectées

  • Collaborer avec les leaders des équipes de design, produit, ingénierie, commercialisation et ventes afin de définir la vision produit, l’orientation du design et les décisions d’affaires clés

  • Influencer les décisions à travers les plateformes, produits et domaines grâce à une narration convaincante

  • Concevoir et animer des ateliers favorisant l’idéation, l’alignement et la prise de décision stratégique avec les parties prenantes

  • Établir et faire évoluer des cadres de recherche et des pratiques exemplaires pour les travaux complexes à l’échelle des systèmes

  • Encadrer d’autres membres de l’équipe et favoriser l’adoption d’approches centrées sur l’humain et fondées sur des données probantes

  • Accroître la visibilité et l’impact de la recherche au sein de l’organisation

Qualifications minimales

  • Plus de 8 ans d’expérience en recherche UX, en recherche produit ou en recherche sur le design de l’expérience

  • Expertise des méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives, avec une solide approche en méthodes mixtes

  • Capacité démontrée à diriger des recherches dans des environnements complexes, ambigus et interfonctionnels

  • Expérience d’influence stratégique auprès de multiples équipes ou secteurs produits

  • Excellentes aptitudes en communication et en narration, y compris une expérience auprès de parties prenantes de niveau supérieur

Qualifications souhaitées

  • Expérience de travail sur des plateformes, des écosystèmes ou des systèmes à l’échelle de l’entreprise

  • Expérience en opérations, en flux de travail industriels ou en design de services

  • Expérience de recherche dans des environnements multipartites ou des écosystèmes utilisateurs complexes

  • Familiarité avec des secteurs tels que l’AEC, la fabrication ou la gestion d’installations

  • Expérience dans la définition de personas, de parcours utilisateurs et de cadres d’expérience à l’échelle des systèmes

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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 – 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!

Benefits

From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $117,000 and $210,540. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. 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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