AI Capability & Value Strategy Lead

Job Requisition ID #

26WD101723

Position Overview

Autodesk is building industry foundation models for the future of design and make. This role helps define how we measure progress, understand our capability relative to the market, and connect that work to business priorities.

You will set priorities for Autodesk's AI benchmarking program, which measures how our capabilities perform on the work that matters most in real world design and manufacturing, against frontier models, competitor technology, and industry baselines. You will interpret those results and turn them into guidance for research, product, and investment decisions. You will work with AI benchmarking engineers, researchers, and business leadership, with visibility up to C-suite.

Benchmarking is a key input to business decision making at Autodesk. Demand for this work is high and growing, internally and externally. Your job is to make sure the investment in benchmarking gives leaders a clear view of capability, competitive position, and where to focus next.

The person who succeeds here needs to be comfortable working across technical, customer, and business questions. You do not need to build or run the evaluations yourself. You do need enough technical fluency to challenge what is being measured, enough direct work with industry product managers to know where customer value is actually being delivered and whether a measured improvement is one customers recognize, and the judgment to turn both into a clear point of view for leaders making investment decisions.

This is an individual contributor role with a path to people management.

Responsibilities

Capability

• Own and keep current how we prioritize what gets benchmarked, weighing workflow value, strategic importance, and competitive relevance
• Map benchmark priorities to Industry Cloud problem areas and judge what level of evidence each question requires
• Define the comparison set evaluated against those priorities, covering Autodesk and external alternatives
• Collaborate on evolution of relevant human metrics and comparisons
• Turn benchmark results into clear read-outs on Autodesk capability relative to frontier models, competitor technology, and industry baselines, including for the C-suite
• Evolve the channels and cadence through which we report capability and competitive position
• Keep capability questions moving to answers on a timeline that matches the decisions they support, including work that depends on teams you do not manage
• Partner closely with the technical benchmarking team, which owns task curation and evaluation, to shape what gets measured next
  
  

Value

• Own the translation from capability to business value
• Evolve how we measure ROI for our models
• Take a capability improvement and connect it to the workflow it changes, the customers it affects, and the revenue or cost implications
• Own the customer and industry validation standard we use to evaluate new business bets
• Work with industry product teams to ground what we measure in the workflows their customers run, and to confirm that a measured improvement is one customers recognize and value
• Reconcile benchmark evidence with customer evidence when the two disagree, and determine which should carry the decision
  
  

Competitive

• Turn comparative results into a clear view of how Autodesk capabilities are evolving relative to the market, and set the priorities competitive research works against
• Translate meaningful differences in capability into research questions and investment recommendations with AI Research and AI Economics, informing scenario planning and build versus partner decisions
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years across strategy consulting, corporate or business strategy, technical product management, AI strategy, applied research, competitive intelligence, or related roles
• Evaluation fluency - you can interrogate an evaluation result, challenge the metric, and determine whether a benchmark supports the conclusion being drawn from it
• Business translation - you can take a change in capability and work through what it means for a workflow, a customer, a competitor, and ultimately a business decision
• Structured problem solving - you are comfortable taking an ambiguous question, breaking it into the right components, working with incomplete evidence, and developing a defensible point of view
• Movement between technical and business contexts - you can work credibly with researchers and engineers, then translate the relevant implications for executives without losing the substance
• Momentum - you bring a working rhythm that others can plan around, and you help shorten the distance between a question being raised and an answer being available
• Track record of influencing research, product, or investment priorities without direct authority
• Strong analytical judgment and clear, concise executive communication
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in strategy consulting, product strategy, or another role requiring structured analysis of complex technical or market questions
• Experience using technical evidence, including benchmarks or evaluations, to inform product, research, or investment decisions
• Experience with competitive intelligence, scenario planning, or technology landscape analysis
• Familiarity with AI model evaluation or benchmarking. Direct hands-on experience is highly valuable but not required
• Experience with unit economics, adoption modeling, or ROI analysis
• Familiarity with Autodesk industries
• Experience leading or mentoring analysts
  
  

Learn More / Plus d'information

About Autodesk / À Propos D’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!

Bienvenue chez Autodesk ! Nos logiciels créent chaque jour des choses extraordinaires : des bâtiments les plus écologiques aux voitures les plus propres, en passant par les usines les plus intelligentes et les films à succès. Nous aidons les innovateurs à concrétiser leurs idées, transformant non seulement la façon dont les choses sont fabriquées, mais aussi ce qui peut l’être.

Nous sommes très fiers de notre culture chez Autodesk ; elle est au cœur de tout ce que nous faisons. Notre culture guide notre façon de travailler et de nous comporter les uns envers les autres, influence nos interactions avec nos clients et nos partenaires, et définit notre image au monde.

En tant qu’Autodeskien, vous pouvez accomplir un travail significatif qui contribue à bâtir un monde meilleur, conçu et réalisé pour tous. Prêt à façonner le monde et votre avenir ? Rejoignez-nous !

Salary transparency / Transparence Salariale

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $129,000 and $189,200. 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. Le salaire est l'un des éléments du programme de rémunération concurrentiel d'Autodesk. Pour les postes basés au Canada, nous offrons un salaire de base entre $129,000 et $189,200. Le salaire est déterminé selon l'expérience professionnelle et l'emplacement du candidat(e), et peut dépasser cette fourchette. En plus du salaire de base, notre programme de rémunération peut inclure une prime annuelle, des commissions pour les postes de ventes, des attributions d'actions et un ensemble complet d'avantages sociaux.

Belonging

We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging

In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification

This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.