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This role is responsible for the operational execution, program coordination, tracking, and reporting that helps LEEP run effectively.\nLEEP sits at the intersection of technology and the business, building and enhancing systems and tools that enable teams across Autodesk, including Sales, Finance, Marketing, and others, to succeed.\nThe Office of the Chief of Staff establishes the operating framework that helps LEEP work effectively as one organization. This role helps shape, evolve, operationalize and ultimately supports that framework by managing the processes, tools, data, and recurring activities required to keep the organization organized and on track.\nYou will be responsible for maintaining, the governance rhythm, visibility across key programs and operational activities, coordinating inputs and deliverables across teams, tracking commitments and milestones, preparing reporting, and ensuring timely follow-through. You will also manage several recurring business operations processes, including budget coordination, contractor operations, organizational reporting, meeting cadences, and other cross-functional activities. This position offers flexibility, allowing for on-site, hybrid, or remote work in the United States or Canada, with up to 20% travel to Autodesk office locations and Autodesk-sponsored events.\nResponsibilities\nBusiness Operations & Reporting:\nManage recurring business operations processes and operating cadences across LEEP\nMaintain dashboards, trackers, calendars, and reporting that provide clear visibility into key activities, milestones, commitments, risks, and dependencies\nGather and consolidate inputs from teams to produce accurate, timely status reporting for the Chief of Staff\nTrack key operational metrics and activities across areas such as budget, hiring, contractor workforce, enablement, employee engagement, and roadmap milestones\nMaintain operational documentation, process guides, templates, and other resources that enable consistent execution\nIdentify opportunities to simplify, standardize, or automate recurring operational processes\nProgram Management & Tracking:\nMaintain plans, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, and action items for key programs and operational initiatives\nTrack commitments and deliverables and proactively follow up with owners to ensure timely completion\nCoordinate status updates across multiple teams and workstreams and surface risks, delays, or dependencies requiring attention\nEstablish practical tracking and reporting mechanisms for new programs or activities where needed\nMaintain action and decision logs and ensure agreed-upon next steps are captured and followed through\nSupport program owners with planning, coordination, documentation, and reporting\nCross-Functional Operations:\nCoordinate operational activities and deliverables across Finance, HR, Vendor Management, Sourcing, Enablement, and other partner functions\nTrack and manage statements of work, contractor onboarding and offboarding processes, tracking requests, approvals, access, and completion of required activities\nCoordinate budget-related activities with Finance\nSupport hiring and workforce tracking by maintaining current information and coordinating required inputs with relevant partners\nTrack cross-functional requests and dependencies to ensure they reach the appropriate owners and are completed on time\nMeetings & Organizational Support:\nCoordinate recurring operating reviews, team forums, workshops, and offsites\nPrepare agendas, materials, data, and status updates needed for effective meetings\nFacilitate operational and program reviews as needed, with a focus on progress, risks, decisions, and actions\nDocument decisions, actions, owners, and deadlines and manage follow-up through completion\nProvide operational support for Communities of Practice, including scheduling, communications, materials, and action tracking\nSupport employee engagement activities through planning, coordination, communications, logistics, and tracking\nMinimum Qualifications\n7+ years of experience in business operations, program management, technical program management, or a related discipline within a high-tech or similarly complex organization\nDemonstrated experience managing operational processes and multiple concurrent workstreams\nStrong program management skills, including planning, milestone tracking, dependency management, risk identification, action tracking, and follow-through\nStrong analytical skills with experience building and maintaining dashboards, reports, trackers, and operational metrics\nExperience supporting business processes such as budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, hiring, vendor or contractor management, and organizational reporting\nExceptional organizational skills and attention to detail, with a demonstrated ability to keep complex activities and multiple stakeholders on track\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to consolidate information from multiple sources into clear, concise updates\nStrong relationship-building and coordination skills with the ability to work effectively across teams and functions\nAbility to identify issues, escalate appropriately, and drive operational items through resolution\nAbility to prioritize and execute across multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment\nA continuous-improvement mindset and demonstrated ability to make recurring processes simpler, more consistent, and more efficient.\nHigh proficiency with Microsoft 365, including Copilot. Familiarity with tools such as Airtable and Jira is preferred\nThe Ideal Candidate\nThis is a hands-on operations role for someone who is exceptionally strong at bringing structure to complex and ambiguous environments, designing scalable approaches, where established processes do not exist. You are comfortable managing multiple workstreams, working with data, creating clear and useful reporting, coordinating across functions, and ensuring that details do not fall through the cracks. Success in this role means that LEEP’s operational processes run smoothly, leaders have accurate and timely information, teams understand what is expected of them, and commitments are consistently tracked through completion.\nWhat a day in the life could look like: You might start the morning reviewing program trackers and upcoming milestones, following up on overdue actions, and gathering status updates for an upcoming business review.\nNext, you could work with Finance to reconcile budget information, coordinate with HR on hiring data, or move a contractor onboarding request through the required process.\nLater, you might prepare materials for a leadership meeting, consolidate updates from several teams into a concise status report, or document decisions, owners, and due dates in a meeting.\nIn the afternoon, you could update an operational dashboard, coordinate logistics for an upcoming team forum, support a Community of Practice, document a recurring process, or identify a way to simplify a manual workflow.\nAcross these activities, your role is to create structure, maintain visibility, coordinate execution, and ensure follow-through.\nLearn More\nAbout Autodesk\nWelcome 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. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.\nWe take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk - it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.\nWhen you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!\nBenefits\nFrom 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/\nSalary transparency\nSalary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For U.S.-based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $124,000 and $221,430. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.Equal Employment Opportunity\nAt Autodesk, we're building a diverse workplace and an inclusive culture to give more people the chance to imagine, design, and make a better world. 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.\nBelonging\nWe take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. 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