AI Capability & Value Strategy Lead

Job Requisition ID #

26WD101768

Position Overview

Autodesk is building industry foundation models for the future of Design and Make. This role helps define how we measure progress, assess our capabilities relative to the market, and connect that work to business priorities.

You will set priorities for Autodesk’s AI benchmarking program, measuring how our capabilities perform on real-world design and manufacturing workflows against frontier models, competitor technologies, and industry baselines. You will interpret results and translate them into actionable guidance for research, product, and investment decisions.

You will work closely with AI benchmarking engineers, researchers, and business leaders, with visibility up to the C-suite.

Benchmarking is a key input into business decision-making at Autodesk, and demand for this work is growing both internally and externally. Your role is to ensure that investments in benchmarking provide leaders with a clear view of our capabilities, competitive position, and strategic priorities.

The ideal candidate is comfortable navigating technical, customer, and business questions. You do not need to build or run evaluations yourself, but you must have the technical fluency to challenge what is being measured and the business judgment to determine whether improvements translate into meaningful customer value. You will work directly with industry product managers to understand customer workflows, validate the relevance of measured improvements, and develop clear recommendations for leaders making investment decisions.

This is an individual contributor role with a path to people management.

Responsibilities

AI Benchmarking Strategy

• Own and continuously refine benchmarking priorities, balancing workflow value, strategic importance, and competitive relevance
• Map benchmark priorities to Industry Cloud problem areas and determine the level of evidence required for each question
• Define the comparison set for each priority, covering Autodesk capabilities and external alternatives
• Collaborate on the evolution of relevant human metrics and comparisons
• Partner closely with the technical benchmarking team, which owns task curation and evaluation, to shape future measurement priorities
• Keep capability questions moving toward actionable answers within timelines aligned with business decisions, including work involving teams outside your direct management
  
  

Business Value

• Own the translation of AI capabilities into measurable business value
• Evolve how Autodesk measures return on investment (ROI) for its models
• Connect capability improvements to the workflows they affect, the customers who benefit, and the resulting revenue or cost implications
• Establish customer and industry validation standards for evaluating new business opportunities
• Partner with industry product teams to ensure benchmarks reflect real customer workflows and that measured improvements deliver value customers recognize
• Reconcile benchmark results with customer evidence when they conflict, determining which evidence should guide business decisions
  
  

Competitive Intelligence and Strategic Recommendations

• Translate comparative results into a clear view of how Autodesk’s capabilities are evolving relative to the market
• Set priorities for competitive research based on strategic business needs
• Translate meaningful capability differences into research questions and investment recommendations in partnership with AI Research and AI Economics
• Inform scenario planning and build-versus-partner decisions through evidence-based analysis
  
  

Executive Communication and Reporting

• Deliver clear, actionable insights on Autodesk’s capabilities relative to frontier models, competitor technologies, and industry baselines, including presentations to the C-suite
• Evolve reporting channels and cadences to communicate capability progress and competitive positioning effectively
• Turn complex technical findings into concise recommendations that support research, product, and investment decisions
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years in strategy consulting, corporate or business strategy, technical product management, AI strategy, applied research, competitive intelligence, or related fields
• Ability to interrogate evaluation results, challenge metrics, and assess whether benchmarks support the conclusions drawn
• Ability to connect changes in AI capabilities to workflows, customer outcomes, competitive positioning, and business decisions
• Experience breaking down ambiguous questions, working with incomplete evidence, and developing defensible recommendations
• Ability to collaborate credibly with researchers and engineers while communicating relevant implications to executive audiences without losing technical substance
• Ability to establish a reliable working rhythm, coordinate across teams, and shorten the time between a question being raised and an actionable answer being available
• Demonstrated ability to influence research, product, or investment priorities without direct managerial authority
• Strong analytical judgment and clear, concise executive communication
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in strategy consulting, product strategy, or roles involving structured analysis of complex technical or market questions
• Experience using technical evidence, including benchmarks and evaluations, to inform product, research, or investment decisions
• Experience in competitive intelligence, scenario planning, or technology landscape analysis
• Familiarity with AI model evaluation and benchmarking; direct hands-on experience is highly valuable but not required
• Experience with unit economics, adoption modeling, or ROI analysis
• Familiarity with Autodesk’s industries
• Experience leading or mentoring analysts
  
  

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About Autodesk

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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!

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Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. 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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