Principal Experience User Researcher, Canada

Autodesk Autodesk · Enterprise · Toronto, ON +4

Autodesk is seeking a Principal Experience User Researcher to develop research strategies for AI-enabled developer workflows. This role involves understanding developer needs, how they adopt platform capabilities, integrate AI tools, and identifying future growth areas across the entire developer journey. The researcher will influence product roadmaps, minimize development risk, and analyze mixed-methods data to drive decisions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Become a domain expert on customer experience and trends in developer workflows and experiences in alignment with emerging AI capabilities
  2. Deliver research strategy that balances business and customer needs
  3. Track key areas of uncertainty and prioritize research to minimize product development risk
  4. Use customer insights to influence design and product roadmap
  5. Plan and execute a mixed-methods research program supporting AI enabled developer experiences

Skills

Required

  • Proven record in impacting user experience & business decisions through user research findings
  • Ability to produce exceptional user research deliverables expressed in a portfolio of your work
  • Expert knowledge and innovation in user research and field study methodologies, including designing and conducting usability studies, statistical analysis of survey data, heuristic evaluations, participatory design activities and focus groups
  • Experience contributing user research within an agile development environment
  • Ability to influence stakeholders across divisions including senior directors and VPs and present up to CTO
  • English language fluency; exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent visual and oral storytelling skills
  • MS/MFA+ in Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Psychology, Product Design or related field
  • Minimum 8 years of professional experience in the field of user research and usability

Nice to have

  • genuine knowledge and curiosity about AI and how it's changing developer workflows
  • navigate ambiguity at a platform level
  • mapping complex ecosystems and identifying where research has the most leverage
  • driving user research activities from concept to conclusion
  • contributes to research culture, championing research quality and evolving approaches & practices
  • Embraces learning and curiosity about Autodesk tools and markets

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-enabled developer workflows
  • AI investments
  • integrate AI tools

Other signals

  • AI-enabled developer workflows
  • understand developer needs
  • integrate AI tools into their build cycles
  • future investments can unlock productivity & growth
  • full developer journey