Customer Trust & Engagement Manager

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · AMER - Canada - Ontario - Toronto - University Ave, AMER - Canada - New Brunswick - Offsite +3

This role focuses on building customer trust in Autodesk's products and business practices, acting as a liaison between customers and the Trust organization. It involves communicating complex topics like security, privacy, compliance, risk management, and responsible AI to customers and representing customer feedback internally. The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and a deep understanding of trust-related concepts.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead customer trust engagements, including executive briefings, trust reviews, security and compliance discussions, and strategic customer conversations
  2. Communicate Autodesk's approach to security, privacy, compliance, risk management, resilience, and responsible AI in a clear, credible, and customer-centric manner
  3. Partner with customer-facing teams to support strategic opportunities, renewals, escalations, and complex customer trust inquiries
  4. Develop trusted relationships with customer stakeholders, including security, privacy, risk, procurement, legal, and executive team
  5. Develop and execute programs that strengthen customer trust and improve customer understanding of Autodesk's trust posture

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in a customer-facing, consultative, advisory, or program management role involving one or more of the following areas: customer trust, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, risk management, security assurance, governance, solutions engineering, or enterprise technology
  • Experience leading customer-facing discussions related to security, privacy, compliance, risk, resilience, responsible AI, or other trust-related topics
  • Strong understanding of security, privacy, compliance, and risk management concepts, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated ability to engage with senior customer stakeholders, including executives, security leaders, privacy, legal, procurement, risk, and technical teams
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to develop clear customer-facing messaging, executive briefings, and trust-related communications
  • Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to partner effectively across Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations teams
  • Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize competing needs, and drive alignment across multiple internal and external stakeholders
  • Customer-centric mindset with strong judgment, professionalism, and the ability to build credibility in sensitive or high-trust customer conversations
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Nice to have

  • Experience in customer trust, trust advisory, security assurance, governance, risk and compliance, security consulting, solutions engineering, technical sales, or customer-facing cybersecurity roles
  • Familiarity with industry frameworks and standards such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, GDPR, FedRAMP, CSA STAR, or similar programs
  • Experience developing and delivering customer-facing content, executive presentations, trust narratives, enablement materials, FAQs, or thought leadership
  • Experience discussing AI governance, responsible AI, data governance, resilience, or emerging technology risks with customers or internal stakeholders
  • Experience supporting enterprise sales cycles, strategic renewals, customer escalations, security reviews, vendor risk assessments, or third-party risk management processes
  • Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, Security+, CIPP, CIPM, or comparable credentials are a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • responsible AI
  • customer trust
  • security
  • privacy
  • compliance
  • risk management