Senior Manager, Trust Risk

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Arizona, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Oversee Autodesk’s Trust Risk Program while leading a multidisciplinary team that includes Third-Party Risk Management and senior risk professionals.

• Directly report to the Director of Trust Governance, Risk, and Compliance.

• Leverage extensive technical risk knowledge to sustain and enhance the Trust Risk Program.

• Advise product and engineering teams on proactive risk planning throughout the complete risk lifecycle.

• Formulate the strategy, roadmaps, capability monitoring, and operational metrics for the Trust Risk Program, ensuring alignment with Autodesk’s business objectives and Trust standards.

• Design and implement an AI-driven modernization strategy for Trust Risk operations.

• Identify, test, and expand the application of AI and automation while ensuring human oversight, validation, and governance.

• Prioritize risk mitigation efforts in collaboration with Trust, engineering, product, industry strategy, and program stakeholders.

• Create mitigation delivery plans that detail ownership, prioritization, aging and escalation criteria, executive visibility, and intervention mechanisms.

• Develop scalable communication strategies that address program health, mitigation efforts, and accomplishments.

• Promote fact-based, data-driven decision-making processes.

• Collect stakeholder feedback and pinpoint areas for program enhancement.

• Create annual and multi-year operational plans that encompass capabilities, organizational structure, talent, technology investments, budget considerations, and effectiveness metrics.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in constructing, managing, scaling, and significantly enhancing a technical risk management program within a complex technology organization.

• At least 4 years of experience overseeing teams in a remote or hybrid setting.

• Strong comprehension of one or more Trust principles, such as security, privacy, resilience, or responsible AI.

• Experience in implementing or testing AI-enabled risk, compliance, security, audit, or operational workflows.

• Capability to establish suitable human review, data handling, validation, and measurement practices for AI-driven workflows.

• Moderate knowledge of compliance frameworks like SOC 2 and ISO 27001, as well as audit activities.

• Basic familiarity with cloud hosting, infrastructure technologies, SaaS, and cloud services, including AWS and Microsoft.

• Experience managing stakeholders from technical teams to business leaders, product managers, and designers.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal abilities, with a talent for influencing and achieving consensus among diverse stakeholders.

• Proven experience in briefing executives and leaders at various levels.

• Demonstrated success in leading multi-year risk or governance initiatives that yield measurable enhancements in decision-making, risk reduction, accountability, operational efficiency, and customer trust.

• Experience in communicating and reporting on program health, driving initiatives, and ensuring timely delivery.

• Preferred: strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Preferred: strategic thinking and systematic execution.

• Preferred: familiarity with regulatory requirements and security-use-case standards.

• Preferred: experience with Jira, Atlassian, SharePoint, and GRC platforms.

• Preferred: background in the software or technology industry.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile development environment.

• Preferred: knowledge of cloud security, data privacy, and threat detection/prevention technologies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health and financial benefits.

• Time away and everyday wellness benefits.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Annual cash bonuses may be included.

• Stock grants may be included.

• In-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification may be required.