Autodesk, a global leader in software for architects, builders, engineers, designers, manufacturers, 3D artists and production teams, has announced job cuts.
Andrew Anagnost, Autodesk’s President and Chief Executive Officer, released a statement which said: “We are making the difficult decision to reduce the size of Autodesk’s workforce by approximately 7% globally (around 1,000 roles), with most of the impact in our customer-facing sales teams. The primary driver of today’s action is the completion of our multi-year go-to-market (GTM) transformation.”
He said the company last year announced it was beginning a two-year journey to modernise its GTM organisation.
He said, in priority order, this reduction is driven by three key strategic shifts:
- Completing our GTM transformation: Over the past several years, we’ve modernised our go-to-market model, simplifying how customers engage with us, and intentionally built a foundation aligned with where the industry is heading. With this action, the sales optimisation phase is now essentially complete, and we have a stronger, more efficient foundation to support our next chapter of growth.
- Expanding our AI, platform and industry cloud leadership: We’ve built a strong foundation across our industry cloud, platform and AI, positioning Autodesk to deliver more connected, intelligent and valuable solutions. As we move into the next phase of executing our strategy, we’re reinvesting in and scaling these capabilities to unlock greater customer value and support long-term growth.
- Strengthening our corporate functions: As the business environment evolves, corporate functions are essential to Autodesk’s continued strength. We’re realigning our investments to ensure these teams remain resilient, modern and scalable as they support transformation across the business.
Anagnost said it will not become an annual process at Autodesk and these changes are not driven by the external environment or an effort to replace people with AI.
