Currently Searching for Sr. Director AutoCAD Software Development

As a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, Autodesk helps people imagine, design, and create a better world. Autodesk accelerates better design through an unparalleled depth of experience and a broad portfolio of software to give customers the power to solve their design, business, and environmental challenges. In addition to designers, architects, engineers, and media and entertainment professionals, Autodesk helps students, educators, and casual creators unlock their creative ideas through user-friendly applications.

Reporting directly to the Vice President of the AutoCAD Product Line Group, the Senior Director /Director of Software Development will lead the development strategy and delivery of the AutoCAD cloud-enabled desktop and vertical products, developer products and our Design Suites integrations.

The candidate must be enthusiastic, self-motivated, and an excellent communicator, with experience leading and motivating large software development organizations. He/she should have a proven track record of delivering complex software projects on time and with superior quality. The candidate should have experience in managing change both in process and organizational structure and in aligning a development team to accomplish the goals of the product line group. Including a proven track record of executing successfully in a heavily matrixed environment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for a globally distributed team of talented software developers. He/she will collaborate with product management, user experience, quality assurance, program management, product architects and other functional groups to successfully deliver scalable and high-quality products that support continued growth and success for Autodesk. A strong track record of managing distributed engineering teams is vital.

The candidate will have practical expertise in managing the delivery of software using waterfall, staged, and hybrid-agile development methodologies and be able to articulate the advantages and constraints of each. Highly advantageous is a strong technical background in developing world class CAD and/or highly interactive technical design products, and hands on experience with: technical architecture, C++, .NET, Windows development, 2D and 3D computer graphics, geometric modeling, and data storage (including cloud databases) and exchange technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the AutoCAD Product Line Group. Act as a leader to the development community; evangelizing, communicating, and distributing technical information. Build relationships with other product groups to ensure understanding of product strategy; drive alignment and coordination of efforts. Provide active guidance and direction to business, marketing, and technical teams to assist them in managing their interdependencies
• Based on the strategic business vision, define and drive the product/technology’s strategic direction from a technical perspective, serving as both an information resource to executive management regarding existing performance/capabilities, future capabilities and technical potential
• Create an operationally excellent organization with the skill set required to develop the next generation AutoCAD and the flexibility to adapt to the rapidly changing software development environment. Inspire and align the team to the organization’s and company’s goals
• Develop relationships with peers across the company to ensure maximum leverage of Autodesk’s broad technology portfolio and broad adoption of the platform components produced by the AutoCAD Product Line Group
• Direct the production of detailed project plans including schedule and resource requirements for multiple concurrent projects, and manage dependencies and resource sharing between the projects.  Lead selection of tools, techniques and methods for estimating and monitoring software development tasks. Work with Program Management and other functional areas to ensure that scheduling/tracking tools are in line with the goals of the entire product team
• Work closely with a team of seasoned Product Architects to evolve the product/technology’s overall architecture, assuming comprehensive responsibility for ongoing reengineering and modification of the existing architecture and for creating and developing architectural advances to accommodate future features and capabilities while maintaining architectural adaptability. Evaluate the feasibility of alternative directions in future architecture/platform development through the creation of models and prototypes
• Develop staff in line with strategic organizational and departmental objectives; coach others in the value and methods of associate development; anticipate the changing demands for skills; select the best people for the future; design processes for development of critical skill areas

Requirements

• 15+ years overall experience
• Experience successfully managing multiple large and complex products
• Proven ability to manage multiple geographically distributed teams
• Experience as a change agent and driving organizational excellence
• Experience driving incremental and disruptive innovations
• Managed teams with at least 75 developers
• Ability to influence at senior levels of the organization
• Ability to make sound, sometimes difficult decisions while maintaining integrity and inspiring trust
• 10+ years of large team management experience