Senior Product Manager - Product Design Simulation in Fusion

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Senior Product Manager – Simulation

Product designers, engineers, and manufacturing teams face increasing pressure to bring high-quality products to market faster than ever. As a Senior Product Manager at Autodesk for product design simulation in Fusion, you will define and deliver solutions that support expand the accessibility of simulation solutions and outcomes for the product design community, exploring experience, physics and adoption as well as automation and AI.

You will bring a strong understanding of consumer product design and engineering workflows and help shape how simulation is embedded directly into the design process. Rather than treating simulation as a specialized activity, you will drive its evolution into an accessible, intuitive capability that enables designers and engineers to validate decisions early and continuously.

In this role, you will:

• Define product strategy and roadmap for integrated design and simulation experiences
• Champion solutions that connect design, engineering, and manufacturing workflows
• Drive adoption of simulation as a core design tool for mainstream users
• Leverage automation and AI to simplify complex analysis and guide better decisions
• Ensure responsible AI principles (transparency, explainability, user trust) are embedded in product experiences
• Partner with engineering, UX, and domain experts to deliver impactful, credible solutions
• Use customer insights and product data to identify unmet needs and prioritize investments

You are a customer-focused product leader who understands how products are designed and built—not just analyzed. You are comfortable bridging technical and business perspectives, and you thrive in collaborative, cross-functional environments.

Principal duties & responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for the “whole” product/solution experience
• Establish yourself as a subject matter expert for simulation offerings and AI assisted design in Fusion
• Clearly articulate user problems & solution objectives in order to guide experience and development teams
• Identify and describe target customers, personas and ecosystem influencers
• Develop solution concepts that combine UX, physics, and AI-driven automation
• Coordinate the aligned efforts of adjacent product managers within product development
• Develop and articulate project intent, scope, timelines and deliverables
• Create solution examples and workflow vignettes
• Develop core messages describing solution/approach benefits
• Evangelize internally and externally and at all levels, including sales, development, end users, executives, media & analysts
• Plan and initiate market research and market sizing in order to identify/quantify opportunities
• Conduct end-user inte