Senior Technical Program Manager (Remote Canada)

25WD91150, Senior Technical Program Manager

Position Overview

As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you’ll work with leaders in engineering, product, and design to manage efforts that make our products more reliable, secure, and trustworthy to customers. You’ll lead programs and projects across our globally distributed 800+ person R&D organization, acting as the connective tissue that aligns teams and drives programs to successful completion. Excellent collaboration and communication with other product teams and stakeholders within Construction R&D and in other areas of the organization will be a critical part of your success to ensure that dependencies are understood and managed well, and any discovered overlaps are resolved across the Autodesk construction products ecosystem.

You’ll be a central point of contact for our Centers of Excellence (COEs) to help them adopt organizational standards and practices that improve tracking, cross-COE collaboration, and organizational efficiency. You’ll also work with the TPM org to help develop and implement processes that assist in delivering business objectives, and iterate to continually improve the way we work together.

A great program manager will be highly organized, communicative, and detail-oriented, with a sharp focus on on-time delivery and efficiency at all levels of the organization. Being able to effectively drive response and action from a number of stakeholders is crucial to the success of this role.

Location: Remote Canada
 

Responsibilities

• Proactively lead programs and projects to ensure successful delivery/outcomes, leveraging expertise in program planning and cross-team coordination

• Build and maintain timelines, project plans, and communication artifacts (such as dashboard reports and visual documents) to ensure that everyone operates from the most recent and accurate information

• Track and report on key performance metrics – conducting regular audits of project schedule and task tracking, ensuring accurate reporting across regular cadences

• Independently identify project risks and blockers and proactively seek out mitigation and remediation actions

• Identify decisions required to move a project forward, determine the decision-makers, and ensure decisions are made and documented

• Ensure effective collaboration with product teams across Construction R&D and the broader Autodesk organization, as well as within the Technical Program Management team

• Build and maintain strong connections with key stakeholders from all around the company

• Own, contribute, and socialize best practices and tooling standards to improve productivity, communication, and documentation across the R&D organization, as well as with your fellow TPMs

• Coach product development leads to independently managing project communications and updates for efforts not directly supported by a TPM

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing complex software projects spanning multiple teams

• You have an extensive background in software development; experience supporting large platforms is a plus

• Experienced with standard software engineering methodologies, lifecycles, and development practices, and able to apply the appropriate framework to support a given team’s needs

• Track record of successful project deliveries with teams that are either remote /or globally dispersed

• Team player and diplomat with the ability to partner across all roles and levels of the organization. Whether it’s a conversation or an email, you communicate thoughtfully and effectively

• Experience working with Jira and Confluence

Preferred Qualifications

• When you see something off, you don’t just flag it; you take initiative to set it right. Proactive problem-solving comes naturally to you

• Strong time management, organization, and scheduling skills: you’re known for bringing order and clarity to complex projects

• Comfortable navigating dependencies and aligning teams that may have different priorities or styles of work

• You thrive in dynamic environments where you can help bring structure, clarity, and focus without slowing teams down

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