AutoCAD Product Manager Job

There are a couple of people that are AutoCAD Product Managers and there is a current opening for another person that was posted yesterday. The job is located in sunny San Rafael California.

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62410-Product Manager: AutoCAD
Posted 01-Aug-2007
Location:   3950 Civic, SRF

Autodesk is seeking an experienced Product Manager to join a growing marketing team which supports the company’s flagship product, AutoCAD.

You will develop and drive a market requirements plan based on well executed market research and plenty of first-hand exposure to customers.

This role will focus on defining and driving the technical and business requirements for AutoCAD. Working closely with customers, you will determine how various customer problems should be understood in terms of value, prevalence, and priority. You will describe specific use cases to help the product development team understand how customers require the product to operate.

In addition to having great resources at your disposal, you will have terrific exposure to senior leadership across the company and the industry. This is a great position for a Product Manager who thrives on creating and promoting a strategic vision, pitching ideas to executives and the press, and building project momentum across teams.

  • You must be highly competent at both qualitative and quantitative research. In this role, you must be able to extract break-through insights across a spectrum of research activities, from informal customer interviews to surveys and focus groups.
  • The ideal candidate will have the equivalent of an undergraduate business degree, direct work experience in the design field, experience leading successful project teams, affinity for high technology products, and the ability to sell a vision with confidence and authority.
  • Autodesk is currently ranked the fifth largest publisher of desktop applications in the world. You have the opportunity to make major contributions to Autodesk’s success as the AutoCAD business unit grows and matures.
  • Leadership skills are critical for this position. The ideal candidate will deliver compelling presentations to senior managers, high profile customers, market thought leaders, and the press.
    For the right candidate, this is a rare, well-resourced position with terrific upside potential and membership in a smart, fun-loving team. A well developed sense of humor is strongly preferred.

    • Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Authors high level product requirements to assure products meet customer needs and solve real world problems. The requirements authored by the Product Manager guide the feature designs and specifications developed by product designers and implemented by engineering.
  • Works with customers and prospects worldwide in industries such as architecture, manufacturing, and general design, to identify unsolved problems that are both urgent and pervasive and that people are willing to pay to solve.
  • Conducts market research to identify new product features, trends and opportunities that will be profitable to Autodesk and the growth of AutoCAD in the marketplace.
  • Works with other Product Managers across the company to understand how their current and future products can be enhanced to better meet the needs of the design market.

    • Requirements:

  • Strong communication skills, especially technical speaking and writing.
  • 4-year degree from an accredited institution
  • 5+ years of product management and/or marketing in the AEC or MFG industries.
  • Understanding of the design and engineering customer
  • Ability to create and articulate a product vision
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proven ability to lead teams
  • Experience working with CAD software highly desirable
  • Experience executing market research desirable

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