Title Software Development Manager Position Overview Autodesk’s Viewer Platform powers high-performance 2D and 3D visualization experiences across our product portfolio. As a Software Development Manager, you will lead a team of software developers to deliver scalable, performant, and reliable viewer and product capabilities that support critical customer workflows. You are responsible for driving execution, developing people, and ensuring high-quality delivery across a defined area of the Viewer platform or Visualization products such as Model Coordination. You operate at the intersection of engineering execution, team leadership, and cross‑functional collaboration, ensuring your team consistently delivers impactful outcomes aligned with product and platform strategy. Success in this role is measured by your ability to build a high‑performing team, deliver predictable results, and continuously improve engineering practices, system quality, and team velocity. Responsibilities Build, line‑manage and grow a high‑performing team of local and potentially remote software developers through hiring, coaching, and performance management Foster a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement Support career development through regular feedback, mentorship, and growth planning Own delivery of team commitments, ensuring predictable execution aligned with product and platform priorities Manage planning, prioritization, and execution across sprints and longer‑term milestones Identify risks, remove blockers, and ensure timely delivery of high‑quality software Collaborate with technical leaders to ensure software solutions are fit for purpose, scalable and maintainable Ensure engineering best practices across non‑functional concerns such as code quality, testing, CI/CD, and observability Support architectural decision‑making and ensure alignment with broader platform strategy Partner closely with Product Management and User Experience to translate customer needs into executable plans Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly and proactively to stakeholders Drive operational excellence across reliability, performance, customer escalations and incident management Minimum Qualifications 3 years of experience as a Team Lead or Dev Manager, working with software development teams delivering high quality SaaS products Experience leading both local and remote developers, and developers with a range of experience and seniority Experience in managing complex software projects with dependencies on other development teams and timelines Experience in modern, fast‑paced SaaS product delivery and agile practices Able to think and act both outside and ahead of your team Agile when the environment or requirements change Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills Preferred Qualifications Familiarity with AI tools, and some experience of using them as part of your workplace practices Experience with hiring, scaling teams and improving engineering processes in growing organizations is a plus Salary Transparency Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $140,000 and $190,000. 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr