Manager, AutoCAD Windows

Position Overview
At Autodesk, we are obsessed with building tools for people who imagine, design, and make a better world for the 10 billion people living on our planet. Our clients make the tallest buildings in the world, innovate on new green, affordable housing for low income communities, put rockets into space, invent solutions for bringing fresh water to famine affected countries, 3d print cheap prosthetic limbs for the needy in 3rd world countries, design and make the products in your home and in your pocket, and bring stories and experiences to life that leap off the screen and inspire the world. 

Helping those teams do what they do better, faster and with less negative impact on the world is the mission that pulls us all out of bed every morning.

Our focus on the AutoCAD product development team is to continue the success of the world’s leading CAD family of applications and deliver value to a new generation of customers, on whatever platforms they choose. Our efforts to bring AutoCAD to new platforms has been publicly recognized by some of the biggest tech companies in the world (e.g. Apple, Google, Microsoft) in their various keynote events and helps set the industry standard for how cross platform development is done.
 

We are seeking an experienced software development manager to join our AutoCAD development team that focus on building a new suite of features to help our customers work more efficiently and effectively than ever before. We are looking for a passionate, creative and collaborative person who can lead team to success. We value the knowledge and experience of the candidate in applying appropriately in the new challenge.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, coach and develop a talented and highly motivated team to deliver the AutoCAD Windows product successfully 

• Lead and guide teams of highly skilled software engineers to work within a Scrum framework on high-quality solutions in response to stakeholder requirements

• Manage the performance of your team by communicating clear organizational goals and removing impediments

• Inspire and motivate team members to improve productivity and foster creativity while maintaining a healthy work-life balance

• Promote a culture of continuous improvement through ongoing feedback, coaching, and tracking performance. Support individual training and career development

• Drive both the software development process and the right technology decisions while also advocating for appropriate customer improvements and adjustments

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, Software Architects, and key stakeholders to build release plans that deliver meaningful value to Customers

• Foster collaborative relationships with other teams to accomplish holistic organizational goals

• Be the spokesperson for the team and champion their accomplishments with upper management and adjacent teams

• Work with a globally distributed team and with team members that are in a hybrid/remote work setting

• Cultivate a culture that promotes Autodesk values, inner sourcing, and a proactive attitude to get things done

• Manage the product backlog, do scrum planning with team, and validate that all new features meet functional, performance, and experience requirements and ensure incremental delivery of business value over time

• Communicate clearly and effectively with different functional teams to identify any risk early and ensure issues can be resolved in time

• Understand product with data analytics

• Strong ownership on the product and team

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors/MS/Ph.D. in a related field (software engineering, computer science, statistics, etc.)

• 8 years working experience with 3 years as people manager

• 5+ years of hands-on C++, C#, .NET programming skills and experience on Microsoft Windows

• Strong communicator who can explain complex topics to both a technical and non-technical audience

• Solid understanding of all phases of the software development lifecycle from analyzing the needs to delivery of working software

• Experienced in Agile software development practice and ceremonies

• Work with the team to break down complex technical requirements into logical execution slices

• Demonstrates mature judgment when making engineering choices, and can reliably make the call between elegant and practical fixes

• Collaborative, respectful, and thoughtful leader who is interested to work in a diverse and global team

• Manage the quality of feature delivery by continuous integration

• Successfully completed three or more commercial software development cycles

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience on one of these platforms - Mac, Web, iOS or Android development is a plus

• Experience on one of the graphics technologies, DirectX, Metal, Vulkan is a plus

• Experience on Python script is a plus

• Experience on machine learning is a plus

• Experience on test driven development is a plus

• Experience on behavior driven development is a plus

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