Director Brand Management
Job Summary
Autodesk is seeking a Director of Brand Management to steward and evolve its global design and technology brand. This role leads integrated advertising campaigns, manages agency partnerships, and acts as a center of excellence for brand strategy. The position requires a strategic leader capable of blending creative vision with operational rigor in a high-growth SaaS environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead large-scale integrated brand advertising campaigns.
- Manage brand agency ecosystem and performance.
- Drive cross-functional brand cohesion and strategy.
- Scale brand management models for global SaaS growth.
Required Skills
- 10+ years brand management in SaaS/Tech.
- Strategic agency leadership and management.
- Cross-functional stakeholder influence.
- Creative direction and campaign execution.
Job Details
### Core Responsibilities
- Lead Brand Stewardship & Campaign Excellence: Serve as a senior brand leader responsible for guiding Autodesk's largest integrated advertising campaigns with the focus being on shepherding the creative concepts and ideas.
- Ensure all brand expressions align to Autodesk's brand platform, narrative, and creative standards across channels and regions.
- Act as a trusted creative partner, with a keen eye for strong ideas and the ability to elevate work without stifling creativity.
- Own Agency Management & Center of Excellence: Lead and manage Autodesk's brand agency ecosystem, ensuring clear scopes, strong collaboration, and consistently high-quality output.
- Establish best practices for agency engagement, briefing, feedback, and performance management.
- Act as a center of excellence for brand management across Autodesk, advising teams on brand strategy, positioning, and execution.
- Drive Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner closely with internal stakeholders across marketing, product, communications, events, and regional teams to ensure brand cohesion and impact.
- Navigate complex stakeholder environments with clarity, diplomacy, and confidence.
- Translate business objectives into clear brand and creative direction that teams and agencies can rally around.
- Build for Scale: Help evolve Autodesk's brand management model to support a high-growth, global SaaS organization.
- Balance long-term brand building with near-term business needs, ensuring speed without sacrificing quality.
### Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in brand management at a high-growth product or SaaS technology company.
- Proven experience leading large, integrated brand campaigns across multiple channels.
- Deep experience managing external agencies and complex internal stakeholder relationships.
- A sharp eye for creative excellence and the judgment to know what great looks like.
- Exceptional agency leadership skills—able to push, partner, and elevate work simultaneously.
- Strong strategic thinking paired with operational rigor.
- Clear, confident communicator who can bring structure to ambiguity.