Software Developer - MotionBuilder

Description

Title: Product Designer for Rendering #09000000K7
Location: Toronto, Canada

Submit your resume online at http://www.autodesk.com/careers - Job Req #09000000K7.

Autodesk, Canada Join an exciting team of professionals who build some of the most advanced 3D animation software design tools for the game and film markets. This is a unique opportunity for a rendering expert to join the Product and Interaction Design team in Toronto as a Product Designer. As a Product Designer, you will join a team of experienced and creative experts to initiate, conceptualize, and specify new workflow solutions for Autodesk Media & Entertainment products. Building on your industry experience, you will gather user requirements from customers and translate those needs into clear and achievable specifications that optimize product usefulness and customer satisfaction. You will be working across all major M&E products that feature 3D rendering. The right candidate must possess a clear passion for discovering and solving customer problems, a commitment to excellence, and an ability to see beyond the immediate challenges, several years into the future.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design and validate key rendering features across Autodesk animation products
• Work with the product management team to analyze customer requirements and propose solutions to be developed
• Create and maintain relationships with end-users
• Act as a customer advocate while working with the development team to balance ROI and available project resources to obtain an optimal solution
• Research and validate requirements through customer visits and market research
• Prototype and validate proposed designs with customers and product development
• Create and document detailed design specifications that are consumable by multiple in house customers including Product Development, Quality Assurance and Technical Publications
• Ensure consistency of the user interface and application workflows
• Review, interpret and document defects related to new feature developments
• Review end user documentation relating to new features
• Train other internal stakeholders on new workflows and functionality
• Maintain familiarity with competitive products