PlanGrid
Business Strategist, AI Foundation Models. US or Canada
AMER - Canada - Ontario - Toronto - University Ave, CA · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 15 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningData ScienceAgentic AIStatisticsProduct StrategyFinancial ModelingExcelLeadershipCommunicationProblem SolvingPublic SpeakingMicrosoft Office
About the role
- This role provides the analytical foundation needed to guide adoption, monetization, cost modeling, and strategic planning for these AI investments.
- You will apply structured problem-solving, financial modeling, usage analytics, and cost analysis, including inference COGS and GPU economics, to inform business decisions.
- This role requires fluency, or the ability to ramp quickly, in cloud, GPU, and inference cost dynamics as they relate to AI product economics, COGS, scaling, and margin.
Responsibilities
- Build analytical and financial models that quantify the business impact of AI capabilities across Autodesk's platform and industry groups, including Architecture, Engineering & Construction, Product Design & Manufacturing, and Media & Entertainment
- Develop forecasts for AI adoption, usage, revenue influence, inference costs, margin implications, and long-term planning
- Model and optimize cloud, GPU, and inference cost economics, including utilization, scaling behavior, cost efficiency, COGS, cost-to-serve dynamics, and margin implications
- Create executive- and Board-ready presentations, narratives, and slide materials that communicate strategic recommendations, investment plans, tradeoffs, and business priorities with clarity and impact
- Contribute to building repeatable dashboards, reporting frameworks, and tools to enable data-driven execution across Product, Finance, and Engineering teams
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years in business strategy, analytics, strategic finance, business operations, product strategy, product analytics, management consulting, or a similarly analytical role
- Experience with cloud, GPU, and inference cost structures, or demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on AI infrastructure economics
- Strong communication skills with the ability to distill complexity into clarity
Nice to have
- MBA or relevant graduate degree
- Management consulting experience combined with hands-on operating experience in a technology company
- Experience with AI infrastructure, usage-based monetization models, model serving, inference costs, GPU economics, cloud economics, or compute cost optimization
- Experience in SaaS economics, cloud cost analysis, or AI/ML-driven products
- Background in subscription analytics, pricing, packaging, or monetization strategy
- Experience with AI agents and API-driven business models
- Welcome to Autodesk!
- Amazing things are created every day with our software - from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies.
Compensation
- Salary transparency
Company info
- We are open to candidates in Canada and US Remote
- https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
- Are you an existing contractor or consultant with Autodesk?
- Please search for open jobs and apply internally (not on this external site).
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