Senior Product Manager - Fusion Production Machining

Job Requisition ID #

25WD87467

Senior Product Manager – Production Machining

Position Overview
Autodesk has fully reimagined the Design and Manufacturing business for the digital automation age, enabling companies to address the most important challenges they face today while preparing for new ways of working in the future. The Autodesk Product Design and Manufacturing Solutions (PDMS) portfolio connect the top floor to the shop floor and supply chain so customers can move seamlessly through each phase of a product's development lifecycle — from design and validation to production engineering, manufacturing execution, and operation — with a best-in-class Fusion Industry Cloud platform and market-leading specialist products.

Reporting to our Director of Product Management – Fusion Manufacturing, we are seeking an experienced Product Manager for the Autodesk Fusion Production Machining solution. Production Machining is critical to the current and future growth of Fusion. The primary responsibilities will center on leading the strategy for our Production Machining solution (including Turning, Mill-Turn, Turn-Mill, multi-fixture setup milling and Swiss Machining) with a focus on automation the of Prismatic Part machining, emphasizing the unique characteristics of Fusion as a seamless and fully integrated platform for design and manufacturing. This involves setting clear objectives and initiatives, effectively communicating the strategy internally and with our community, and closely collaborating with development teams to ensure precise, efficient, and flexible production of prismatic parts.

We are a hybrid-first workplace. You’ll work with teammates across the globe and will travel up to 20% of the time for face-to-face meetings like conferences, team offsites, and customers. If you prefer office life, we have offices in our Autodesk Technology Center in Birmingham.

You will be reporting to a Director, Product Management.

Responsibilities

• Own and shape the product strategy and roadmap for Fusion’s Production Machining Solution.
• Define objectives and initiatives by embracing a customer centric approach, focusing on business value and liaising with the development teams to create innovative capabilities.
• Help the team balance tactical and strategic priorities, balancing tech debt along with business-critical features to ensure we deliver rich and robust experiences to customers.
• Prioritize the product backlog, ensuring incremental delivery of business value over time.
• Collaborate with our Fusion Design, Fusion Operations, and Fusion Manage teams to streamline the Production Machining Workflow across the entire process chain.
• Collaborate with the Autodesk partnership team to create and expand relationships with machine tool vendors.
• Communicate status and deliverables to stakeholders and collect feedback for the engineering team.
• Actively engage and communicate with the Fusion community.

Minimum Qualifications

• Proven track record of managing product strategy, roadmaps, and execution, particularly in the manufacturing industry.
• Deep knowledge of Production Machining, especially with Turning, Turn-Mill and Mill-Turn workflows, including an understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities.
• Broad understanding of the market trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies. Ability to leverage this knowledge to shape product strategy and drive innovation.
• Ability to define objectives and initiatives by focusing on business value and customer needs.
• Strong planning and dependency management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with the Fusion community, stakeholders, and engineering teams.
• Ability to work with teams distributed across multiple locations and time zones.
• Experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including development, experience design, operations, sales, service and management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Broad understanding of the market trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies in the CAD/ CAM Market, especially in Automation.
• Skills in Design, CAD for Manufacturing and Model-Based-Definition (MBD).
• Proven experience in building and maintaining strong relationships with vendors in the domain. Ability to collaborate and negotiate with vendors to ensure alignment with product goals and integration of their technologies.
• Familiarity with scrum/agile methodologies.
• Familiarity programming and executing turning and turn/mill programs on the shop floor.