PlanGrid
Senior Director, CEO and Product Communications
San Francisco, CA, USA · Exec · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Product StrategyStrategic CommunicationsLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- This leader is a strategic counselor, executive operator, and connector across the business.
- The role acts as a central point of alignment between product strategy, corporate positioning, and company narrative, ensuring consistency across Autodesk's most critical moments and audiences.
- The right candidate brings a clear point of view, earns executive trust quickly, and moves fluidly between CEO narrative and product storytelling while maintaining clarity and cohesion across both.
Responsibilities
- Serve as primary communications partner to the CEO, providing strategic counsel, message development, and content creation
- Lead development of high-visibility executive content such as keynotes, speeches, earnings support, media engagements, Board materials, and thought leadership
- Own communications strategy for Autodesk's industry groups, partnering directly with executive leaders
- Lead proactive storytelling that strengthens Autodesk's position across priority industries and growth areas
- Partner closely with Product Marketing to deliver integrated narratives for launches, events, and strategic initiatives
- Partner across Global Communications to ensure alignment between CEO, product, platform, and corporate storytelling
- Collaborate with Investor Relations, Legal, Marketing, and executive leadership to align messaging across key company moments including earnings, product launches, customer events, and strategic transactions
- Lead and develop a high-performing team (10 ppl) focused on executive and product communications
- Manage agency partners and external resources as needed
- Drive prioritization, operational rigor, and execution in a complex, fast-moving environment
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in communications, with strong experience in enterprise technology or B2B software
- Experience supporting communications that influence investors, analysts, Board members, and other senior external stakeholders
- Proven track record in product or platform communications, with the ability to translate complex technology into market-relevant narratives
- Experience operating across executive and product communications in an integrated way
- Exceptional writing and storytelling skills, with the ability to adapt to CEO voice and technical narratives
- Ability to engage deeply with technical leaders and translate complex platform, AI, and product strategies into clear, compelling business narratives
- The Ideal Candidate
Compensation
- Salary transparency
- Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package.
- For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $190,000 and $341,220.
Benefits
- From health and financial benefits to time away and everyday wellness, we give Autodeskers the best, so they can do their best work.
- Learn more about our benefits in the U.S. by visiting https://benefits.autodesk.com/
- In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.
Company info
- 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).
- Prepare and support the CEO for external engagements with media, analysts, investors, customers, and industry partners
- This is a high-impact, senior leadership role responsible for shaping how our CEO and our industry platforms are understood by key external audiences.
Equal opportunity
- Autodesk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic.
- We also consider for employment all qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.
- We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive.
- Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
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