Technical Assistant to the CEO of Autodesk
Autodesk has this job opening on the career section of their website:
64344-Technical Assistant to CEO
The role of Technical Assistant to the CEO is a newly created role. In this role, you will serve as an indispensible and trusted advisor, attending meetings with the CEO, providing responses to technical inquiries regarding Autodesk’s family of products, and interacting with Autodesk’s key customers.
Now, I might joke about applying for this job myself... but they want someone who is a wizard with Maya, 3DS Max, Inventor, Revit and AutoCAD. I'm pretty smart, but I'm a stumbling amateur when it comes to day-to-day use of most of these products.
Actually, this could be a really interesting position, for the right person. Here are some of the job responsibilities:
- You will attend meetings with the CEO, responding to technical inquiries as appropriate; present technical knowledge and information on Autodesk products, providing answers and translating the technical capabilities of all products. After meetings, will follow up as needed
- As the Technical Assistant you will have strong communication and analytical skills. In this role, you will interpret and understand customer inquiries, and provide the appropriate level of detail in responding to questions
- Customer issues may require research, investigation and clarification after meetings. The Technical Assistant will assess and identify appropriate resources, delivering results in a prompt manner
- The Technical Assistant will evaluate, explore, and review Autodesk customers’ objectives and goals. You may research and recommend an Autodesk product and/or solution to address customers’ issues
- You will have your finger on the pulse of Autodesk’s market industry and competitors, and communicate new system implementations, enhancements, technical updates, and features geared towards ensuring Autodesk products remain in a competitive position
- Judiciously monitor technical issues raised by customers, by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing all relevant data
This is a serious job, with serious requirements. They're not going to find the right person for this at the local junior college. If you're a major-league CAD hotshot, and you'd like to have a job where you could really make a difference (as in representing the voice of the customer to Autodesk's CEO), you ought to consider applying for this position. But maybe you shouldn't tell them Evan sent you. Wouldn't want them to think I was pulling a prank.
Evan Yares
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Reader Comments (3)
I'm just an AutoCAD wizard, not much to come with either but on the other hand I'm not much of "sitting on meeting guy".
There is no doubt this job suits me and I beleive I have a head start on just about every other person, with the exception of you, in understanding how Autodesk treat and handle customers at a senior level.
It almost appears Bass and Bartz have got their heads together, looked at their many letters from me relating to the handling of the licencing issues, and decided the best thing to do was give me an up close and personal way of contributing to solving their current inabilities ;-)
PaulW
I suppose you could always apply!
It's fun to joke about this... But the last thing I'm going to do is pick on Autodesk about something I think they're doing right.
In any case, I admire your tenacity in trying to get Autodesk to discuss their licensing issues openly.