Seattle, Washington, United States
Strategic Alliances & Partnerships, Sales and Business Development
Hi there! I am a strategic relationship builder who specializes in alliances and joint technology ventures. Throughout my career, I've developed expertise in strategy development, program management, and sales/partnership operations. Through my early sales career, I demonstrated success managing enterprise sales, creating leads, and managing revenue pipelines. I'm passionate about DEI, social justice, local and international economic empowerment, and youth support and development.
Anna Lazar manages Strategic Partnerships. Her focus at Autodesk is to drive collaboration across our cross functional teams to empower partnerships with hot startups, established industry leaders and strategic investments to ultimately create inorganic growth and expand our product value propositions by sourcing, establishing and executing technology partnerships for Autodesk Fusion. She has been at Autodesk for over four years, spending her first two years overseeing the growth of the Autodesk Construction Cloud Ecosystem, working directly with our field teams and customers to help leading construction companies integrate their tech stacks.
Previously, Anna joined Parsable, an early-stage startup, as one of their first go-to-market hires; selling their Connected Worker Platform to enterprise CPG, Industrial Manufacturing and Oil & Gas companies. And she later helped develop their first partner program working with Salesforce, Accenture & BCG. Anna kicked off her tech career at Egnyte, a hybrid-cloud storage solution with a large presence in construction.
She attended university in the U.S., Australia and Spain, eventually obtaining her B.S. in Business from Saint Mary’s College of California where she graduated Cum Laude and with Alpha Mu Alpha honors.
Anna volunteers avidly, helping create corporate partnerships, manage fundraising, create social strategies and promotional assets, and deliver DEI initiatives in the workplace. She currently serves on the board of one of our Autodesk ERGs and Northwest Children's Foundation. Previously, she led San Francisco Women in Tech, putting together large scale and intimate events to foster networking, support education, raise money, create community or celebrate business stakeholders/volunteers/donors/etc.