Product Designer (Digital Innovation)

Product Designer (Digital Innovation) #100000010N

Join an exciting team of professionals who build award-winning applications for the mobile/ desktop markets and are defining the Autodesk mobile and consumer user experience. This is a unique opportunity for a talented designer who is passionate about new media, storytelling and games to join the Digital Concept team as a Product Designer.

As a Product Designer, you will join a team of experienced and creative experts to initiate, conceptualize, and specify new emerging applications on multiple platforms (Mac, Windows and mobile devices). Building on your industry experience, you will assume a visionary role in expanding the Digital Concept Product Design team's knowledge and expertise of animation workflows, simulation and general game play.

The right candidate must possess a clear passion for creating captivating user experiences; enticing game play environments, who has a commitment to excellence, and the ability to see beyond the immediate challenges, several years into the future. The right candidate must also be flexible and be comfortable working with a wide range of projects, from vague to well-defined, and from simple to complex.

Role and Responsibilities:
- Work with the product management team to analyze new proposals and create early concepts
- Design user interfaces for different platforms.
- Document design solutions through sketches, wireframes, storyboards, UI flow charts, high fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes
- Prototype and validate proposed designs with customers and product development team.
- Ensure consistency of the user interface, the application workflows and visual language for each specific platform.
- Review, interpret and document defects related to new software application developments.
- Maintain familiarity with competitive software applications on different platforms.

Required Skills and Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years working as a user experience designer, game designer or visual designer
- An understanding of major elements of game design theory including story, dialogue, interface, character interaction, strategy, simulation, flow, balance and difficulty.
- Passion for and extensive knowledge of video games with the ability to draw on this knowledge within other applications
- Experience with simulation (physics), artificial intelligence and game logic engines
- Experience with animation packages (Maya, 3DS Max, Softimage) and animation workflow
- Experience with major design tools; multimedia, and operating system software: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Visio, Windows, Mac OS, and Microsoft Office.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to keep track of minute details as well as the big picture while multi-tasking.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and presentation skills.
- A portfolio demonstrating superior design skills

Additional Desired Skills (an asset for the role):
- Experience designing for multi-touch devices
- Experience with prototyping tools (Flash, Expression Blend)
- Experience working as a game designer or game level designer

Education
- A degree or diploma in UX Design or a related field, with demonstrated equivalent knowledge gained through work experience.


Autodesk provides one of the most exceptional compensation and benefit packages, including stock options for all employees, 401k matching, six-week sabbatical after four years of employment, domestic partner policy, ongoing employee training and development, flexible work hours and more!

Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is committed to a diverse workforce.