Senior Program Manager, AI Executive Leadership Team

About the Role

• Coordinate AI‑ELT meetings: set agendas, produce materials, frame decisions, record outcomes, and ensure follow‑up actions. • Ensure coherence across functional areas by linking discussions, decisions and inter‑team dependencies. • Define structures, milestones, risk registers and progress tracking for cross‑organizational AI/ML projects. • Lead facilitation of complex stakeholder conversations, merging diverse inputs into decisive outcomes. • Produce executive‑level decks, summaries and narratives that translate technical AI topics into clear business language. • Proactively surface risks and obstacles, devise mitigation strategies, and trigger timely escalations. • Establish and maintain consistent program rhythms, optimizing workflows for transparency and speed. • Utilize program management platforms (e.g., Airtable, Asana, Jira, Confluence) and AI assistance tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) to enhance delivery. • Influence without formal authority, constructing decision frameworks and governance models in ambiguous settings.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸program management
• ▸risk tracking
• ▸tool utilization
• ▸stakeholder facilitation
• ▸executive decks
• ▸governance model

What You Bring

Autodesk is accelerating its AI/ML strategy across the company and seeks a Senior Program Manager to support the operational rhythm, structure, and execution of its AI Executive Leadership Team (AI‑ELT). The role serves as the connective tissue across product, platform, engineering, go‑to‑market, marketing, legal and business strategy teams, ensuring clarity, alignment and forward progress on Autodesk’s most important AI/ML initiatives. It is a high‑visibility, cross‑functional position that requires exceptional program‑management, facilitation, communication and synthesis skills together with a strong conceptual understanding of AI/ML. The ideal candidate will have 8–10 years of experience in program management, portfolio operations or strategic program delivery, with a proven record of managing complex, multi‑stakeholder programs that have executive visibility. They must be comfortable influencing without authority, building decision frameworks and governance structures, and operating in ambiguous environments. Strong communication, analytical, synthesis and facilitation abilities are essential, as is a solid grasp of AI/ML concepts and familiarity with program tools (Airtable, Asana, Jira, Confluence) and AI tools (ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude). Preferred experience includes supporting or running executive‑level forums, steering committees or strategic councils, and a background working in AI/ML‑driven product environments or adjacent fields such as data science or applied research. Passion for innovation and continuous improvement is also valued. • Demonstrate 8‑10 years of experience managing multi‑stakeholder programs with senior leadership exposure.

Requirements

• ▸8‑10 years
• ▸program management
• ▸ai/ml
• ▸airtable
• ▸jira
• ▸chatgpt

Benefits

Compensation is competitive and includes base salary, annual cash bonuses, stock grants and a comprehensive benefits package, with offers tailored to experience and geographic location. For positions based in Canada (British Columbia), salary ranges are disclosed locally.

Work Environment

Hybrid