Principal Content Designer, API Experiences

3 Weeks ago • 6-10 Years

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Autodesk is seeking a Principal Content Designer to craft API documentation and drive product adoption. Must-haves include 6+ years of API documentation experience, proficiency in Git, Markdown, Postman, and strong communication skills. This is a hybrid role with a preference for Pune, India.

About the job

Job Requisition ID #

24WD80936

Position Overview

At Autodesk, we’re not just shaping tools—we’re shaping the future of how ideas come to life. Our platform content designers create the clarity that’s fundamental to every product launch. We understand how words and language define the entire customer experience—from command-line to in-product and beyond. Autodesk’s platform teams design APIs, services, and infrastructure that our customers and developers use to extend the capabilities of Autodesk’s design and make software. Our platform helps other teams and companies reimagine new possibilities based on our 3D modeling, visualization, and data insights software to bring exceptional experiences to architecture, construction, manufacturing, and film and visual effects.

As a Principal Content Designer, you’ll join us on our mission to build the most lovable API products in our platform ecosystem by engaging directly with product, design, and engineering teams to craft and ship content experiences that drive rapid comprehension and high adoption. You’ll be a part of an exceptional team of content designers who shape and refine each other’s work, ensuring that every content piece is accurate, cohesive, and aligned with our broader goals.

We’re looking for someone who has fluency with API concepts, obsesses over developer experiences, and is passionate about bringing human voices to deeply technical spaces. If this sounds like you, come join our team in crafting world-class platform experiences!

This is a hybrid/remote role with preference for candidates in Pune, India.

To be considered, you must apply and include your resume and portfolio with password if required.

Responsibilities

Craft REST and GraphQL API and SDK documentation, establish best practices, contribute to coding standards, and lead content release reviews across products.

Partner with product, engineering, and design teams to drive content direction in shipping snippets, sample code, tutorials, API reference, and developer documentation for product adoption.

Create and communicate a cohesive information architecture ensuring alignment with mental models and product interoperability.

Develop clear content design briefs and documentation plans to test prototypes and support design proposals.

Offer well-informed viewpoints while adapting to stakeholder input throughout the product development process, influencing strategic decisions across products to create clear, cohesive, and consistent experiences.

Build taxonomies and glossaries to align terminologies across the company.

Raise the bar of team excellence by reinforcing high-quality doc practices and staying updated on trends in content design and API documentation.

Minimum Qualifications

6-10 years of experience crafting and shipping API documentation

Experience contributing to and creating content design standards and frameworks

Proficient with Git, Markdown, Postman, Visual Studio Code, OpenAPI

An inexhaustible eye for detail, both in terms of what’s on the page, and the design of the overall user journey

Exceptional verbal and written communication

A perpetual learner and teacher

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in English, computer science, human-computer interaction, or a related field

Foundational experience designing and shipping API and GraphQL experiences

Familiarity with Autodesk products including BIM 360, Autodesk Docs, Revit, AutoCAD, etc.

Experience with SDK documentation a plus

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About Autodesk

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. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – our Culture Code is at the core of everything we do. Our values and ways of working help our people thrive and realize their potential, which leads to even better outcomes for our customers.

When you’re an Autodesker, you can be your whole, authentic self and do meaningful work that helps build a better future for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!

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Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, we also have a significant emphasis on discretionary annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock or long-term incentive cash grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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About The Company

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Autodesk is changing how the world is designed and made. Our technology spans architecture, engineering, construction, product design, manufacturing, media, and entertainment, empowering innovators everywhere to solve challenges big and small. From greener buildings to smarter products to more mesmerizing blockbusters, Autodesk software helps our customers to design and make a better world for all. Over 100 million people use Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max, Fusion 360, SketchBook, and more to unlock their creativity and solve important design, business and environmental challenges. Our software runs on both personal computers and mobile devices and taps the infinite computing power of the cloud to help teams around the world collaborate, design, simulate and fabricate their ideas in 3D. We provide exceptional compensation/benefit packages and we’d love for you to join us. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we consider all qualiﬁed applicants without regard to race, gender, disability, veteran status or other protected category. To see our culture in action, check out #AutodeskLife. We are headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and have more than 10,000 employees worldwide.