Senior Sales Specialist – Emerging Business

Autodesk · Enterprise · Colorado, USA · Remote

Senior Sales Specialist role focused on driving net new growth for construction products in manufacturing accounts by translating customer challenges into technical solutions and building business cases for Autodesk offerings. This role partners with Account Executives and Channel Partners, acting as a primary technology expert to engage customers and demonstrate value.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Account-based Regional Account Executives and Channel Partners to lead net new growth of construction products in manufacturing accounts.
  2. You will translate a customer's challenges into technical solutions through application of experience, in-depth knowledge, practical skills, thinking, and vision on assigned industry(s).
  3. Your engagements will require important skills such as vision to plan an account strategy, industry experience, high-level understanding of Autodesk tools and how customers would receive value.
  4. Evaluate customer's strategies to engage and deliver expertise around how Autodesk offerings can align to Customer Outcomes
  5. Be a primary technology expert, for the account teams they work with, who brings impactful expertise about technology to the customer planning, customer engagement process and the sales automation content curation process.

Skills

Required

  • 5 + years of sales experience
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience

Nice to have

  • vision to plan an account strategy
  • industry experience
  • high-level understanding of Autodesk tools
  • technical relationship management
  • experience with construction products
  • experience in manufacturing accounts
  • ability to translate customer challenges into technical solutions
  • ability to build technical business cases
  • collaboration with Account Executives and Channel Partners
  • strong presentation and communication skills

What the JD emphasized

  • net new growth
  • technical solutions
  • customer challenges
  • industry experience
  • high-level understanding
  • technical business case
  • Autodesk solutions
  • customer outcomes
  • closing capability gaps
  • Goals and success measurements
  • Return on investment
  • technical relationship management
  • sales engagements
  • build impact and success
  • Autodesk solutions
  • Autodesk's competitive positioning
  • customer's successes
  • Return on investment
  • Indicators
  • emerging business
  • high-impact
  • fast-evolving space
  • big impact
  • highly motivated
  • thrive in ambiguity
  • strong bias for execution
  • grit in turning vision into results
  • team-first builders
  • elevate those around them
  • lean into challenges
  • energized by shaping new markets
  • passionate drive colleagues
  • build something bigger
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Job Requisition ID #

26WD99066

Senior Sales Specialist – Emerging Business

**Position Overview **

Partner with Account-based Regional Account Executives and Channel Partners to lead net new growth of construction products in manufacturing accounts. You will translate a customer's challenges into technical solutions through application of experience, in-depth knowledge, practical skills, thinking, and vision on assigned industry(s). Your engagements will require important skills such as vision to plan an account strategy, industry experience, high-level understanding of Autodesk tools and how customers would receive value.

You will report to Senior Sales Manager.

This role is full-time hybrid/remote.

**Responsibilities **

  • Evaluate customer's strategies to engage and deliver expertise around how Autodesk offerings can align to Customer Outcomes
  • Be a primary technology expert, for the account teams they work with, who brings impactful expertise about technology to the customer planning, customer engagement process and the sales automation content curation process. Build the technical business case for Autodesk solutions through discovery and solution fit using discovery workshops and solution building with the customer.
  • Position Autodesk Technology as an enabler for driving the outcomes for solving the business case
  • Discovery outcomes that align to closing capability gaps (increase customer's capabilities) with specific Goals and success measurements
  • Ensure solutions by contributing to the Return on investment materials the account managers build technical relationship management that collaborates with internal Solution Engineers to provide the right knowledge to the customer during sales engagements
  • Find and develop advocates within the account to help build impact and success for Autodesk solutions
  • Demonstrate expertise to the customer and industries we serve to differentiate Autodesk through our vision to become a partner
  • Collaborate with Channel Partners or Customer Success to ensure customer satisfaction and adoption
  • Deliver compelling presentations and messaging that achieve results at executive
  • Understand with customers Autodesk's competitive positioning
  • Understand and guide awareness of customer's successes for realization of Return on investment and Indicators

**Minimum Qualifications **

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience

  • 5 + years of sales experience

About Construction – Emerging Business (AEO&M)

Autodesk is redefining construction for a connected, data-driven future through its emerging business in AEO (Architecture, Engineering, and Operations) and Manufacturing. With Forma Build at the core, this portfolio brings together design intelligence, planning, and construction execution into a unified ecosystem. It bridges early-stage design, preconstruction insights, and field execution—enabling teams to make better decisions earlier and carry those insights through the entire project lifecycle.

By connecting stakeholders across office, site, and operations, Autodesk empowers owners, designers, and builders to collaborate more seamlessly, reduce fragmentation, and unlock predictive, outcome-based workflows. This next-generation approach helps teams improve certainty, accelerate delivery, and drive more sustainable, efficient project outcomes in an increasingly complex built environment.

This is a high-impact, fast-evolving space where we are making big impact. We're looking for highly motivated teammates who thrive in ambiguity, bring a strong bias for execution, and show grit in turning vision into results. The ideal candidates are team-first builders-people who elevate those around them, lean into challenges and are energized by shaping new markets alongside passionate drive colleagues. ** **

Join us if you're ready to build something bigger.

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About Autodesk

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From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work. Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/

Salary transparency

Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based sales roles, we expect a starting On-Target Earnings (OTE) between $154,900 and $277,750. OTE is comprised of base salary plus commission target for sales roles. 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.

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