Senior Engineering Manager, Dropbox
Dash Experiences
$192.4-292.9k
Salary is dependent on location. + Bonus and stock
Smart workspace company
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Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$192.4-292.9k
Salary is dependent on location. + Bonus and stock
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years total experience in software engineering, with 7+ years of people management
- Proven record of leading full-stack product teams through ambiguity and rapid iteration
- Strong technical foundation in modern web technologies (React, TypeScript, Electron, etc.) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Databricks, OpenSearch, DynamoDB)
- Experience partnering with design and PM to define, build, and ship delightful user-facing products
- Excellent communication and alignment skills across executive and technical audiences
- Ability to balance technical depth with delivery velocity and team health
Desirable
- Experience working on AI-powered or content discovery products
- Background in agentic systems, LLM applications, or AI relevance platforms
- Prior leadership within high-growth, high-ambiguity environments (startup or new initiative)
- Track record of building and retaining senior-level engineering talent
- Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineering Manager in the Dash Experiences organization, you’ll lead the team behind Stacks and Start Page; two of Dropbox’s most strategic product experiences. Stacks helps users organize their work into intelligent, AI-assisted collections, while Start Page provides an activity feed and dynamic suggestions so users always know what’s going on in their day
- You’ll work at the intersection of AI, infrastructure, and user experience, shaping how millions of people interact with their content every day. This is a highly visible, high-impact role with strong cross-functional collaboration and direct influence on Dropbox’s long-term product direction
- Lead, mentor, and scale a full-stack product engineering team driving Stacks and Start Page
- Own execution from 0→1 product discovery through to GA launch and iteration
- Collaborate with PM, Design, and Data Science to shape product direction and success metrics
- Partner with AI relevance and infra teams to integrate cutting-edge ML models into user-facing experiences
- Establish strong engineering practices, ensuring velocity without compromising stability or quality
- Represent the team in strategic planning and cross-org alignment forums
- Champion an inclusive, high-accountability, high-autonomy team culture
Our take
Dropbox started by helping people bring together their files in one central place. The contents of these folders are synchronised to Dropbox's servers along with other computers and devices where the user has installed Dropbox, keeping the same files up-to-date across all devices.
Nowadays, there are lots of competing companies in cloud storage, and some with better distribution (e.g. Google and Apple). This explains why Dropbox is making a big push to reinvent itself after a fairly disappointing run since its IPO in 2018. The new Dropbox turns folders into "Spaces", which are collaboration hubs for teams, complete with comment streams, artificial intelligence tools and integrations into services such as Slack.
The company continues to build out its offerings through acquisitions, such as that of Formswift, bolstering its end-to-end agreement workflow capabilities. Indeed, It's very clear that Dropbox is trying to make a big move from being just a storage company. This seems to be a necessary move given the competitive nature of the industry it is operating within.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jan 2014
$350m
SERIES C
Oct 2011
$250m
SERIES B
Total funding: $607.4m
Company benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- We offer a generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage, including contributions toward dependent premiums
- Keep sharing and collaborating with friends and family even when you’re not at work with free Dropbox space for your whole crew
- Take the vacation you’ve always dreamed of with up to four consecutive weeks of paid time off
- Celebrate common holidays without your paycheck taking the hit with 11 company paid holidays
- Each Dropboxer has access to 32 hours of paid volunteer time off each year that they can use to support the causes close to their hearts
- We regularly offer panels and seminars featuring the best minds in tech, talent, diversity, and beyond that any Dropboxer can attend from the comfort of their home
- No two Dropboxers are the same, and their benefits shouldn’t be either. Our Perks allowance empowers employees to customize their benefits in line with what really matters to them
- Start building a successful 401K retirement plan with our dollar for dollar contribution match, up to $1,500 per quarter to a maximum of $6,000 per calendar year
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Arash Ferdowsi
(CTO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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