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Principal Product Manager, Flow Studio

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to join our Media & Entertainment team, focusing on next-generation AI solutions for Autodesk Flow Studio (formerly Wonder Studio), our state-of-the-art AI-powered VFX platform. This role will report into the Sr Director of the Flow Studio Team. In this pivotal role, you will bridge customer needs and engineering requirements, champion transformative features, and drive the future of productivity and creativity in media production. Join us to shape cutting-edge review solutions for production management, driving innovation and excellence in the Media & Entertainment industry. Work with passionate professionals dedicated to empowering creators and redefining workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Product Vision & Strategy: Collaborate with leaders to define and execute the vision, strategy, and operational plans for Flow Studio and review capabilities
• Roadmap Ownership: Develop and manage actionable product roadmaps, prioritizing impactful workflows and enhancements while managing risks and dependencies
• Customer Advocacy: Act as the customer-facing leader, engaging regularly with customers and partners to inform and validate product strategy, ensuring their needs drive product direction
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, UX Designers, Developers, and other product managers to ensure seamless integration of review and content creation capabilities across all tools
• Continuous Discovery: Conduct ongoing customer discovery and validation to inform iterative development and maximize impact
• Industry & Market Expertise: Track global trends in content production and technology, maintaining competitive knowledge and guiding innovation
• Developer Community Strategy: Cultivate a developer community strategy, fostering engagement and feedback from production artists and engineers
• Problem-Solving: Translate customer needs and technical challenges into actionable story maps and solutions, guiding development priorities
• Quality & Compliance: Evaluate technology delivered by Development for technical completion, performance, quality, and compliance

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years in product management or development, with significant exposure to media & entertainment (feature film, animation, or game development frameworks and methodologies)
• Proven experience in machine learning, with strong expertise in computer vision, computational graphics, or generative AI
• Proficiency with Autodesk Production Management tools, Flow Studio and competitive AI solutions and workflows used in VFX, Animation, or Game pipelines
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams and organizations to deliver integrated solutions
• Ability to synthesize data from multiple sources, make difficult trade-offs, and prioritize effectively
• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills, capable of engaging both executive stakeholders and external customers
• Adept at breaking down complex ideas into concise, impactful insights for diverse audiences
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Track record of delivering ML models into production environments, ideally in media, entertainment, or creative tech
• Commitment to ethical AI development and continuous learning

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience managing projects in a large organization and working in Agile/SCRUM environments
• Experience with web development on industry-scale cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with statistical analytics platforms and concepts
• Familiarity with 3D graphics, rendering pipelines, or real-time engines (e.g., Unreal Engine, Blender, Maya) is a plus
• A strong grasp of competitors' products, their strengths, weaknesses, and target markets

Learn More About 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!

Salary transparency: Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $151,400 and $244,860. 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity: At Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

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