Lead Product Designer, Dropbox
New Products
$204.2-229.8k
OTE
$151-220k
BASE
Salary is partially dependant on applicant’s location. Plus bonus and equity
Smart workspace company
Job no longer available
Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$204.2-229.8k
OTE
$151-220k
BASE
Salary is partially dependant on applicant’s location. Plus bonus and equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of UX-related work experience, with 1+ year of experience in a 0→1 environment (leading projects from discovery through shipping/iteration)
- Clear, compelling presentation and communication style
- Steadfast empathy for our users, a burning curiosity in their lives and problems
- Excellent product design strategy and interaction design skills including some experience with prototyping
- Demonstrated skills for collaborating closely with other designers, researchers, product managers, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders across organizational boundaries
- Ownership mindset with a bias towards action, helping to drive teams and projects forward
- Culture builder with excitement around building trusting and collaborative environments
What the job involves
- As the Lead Designer on OTC (Organize the Cloud) Managed Foundation team, you will play a key role in bringing Dash to Enterprise customers. Initially your team will own delivering IT Admin tooling and deployment experiences, to help them enable their teams to adopt our new AI-product. Your team will also drive creating admin-tailored takes on the core Dash experiences
- You’ll collaborate closely with all other teams across OTC and across all of Dropbox to craft seamless end-to-end journeys that touch almost every aspect of the Dash and Dropbox experience. On your team you will work closely daily with your PM, Eng, and Researcher partner to define the needs and experiences for IT Admins at large enterprises. You will be a central part of the go-to-market motions of Dash, and frequently interact with key stakeholders across Dropbox. Across the Dash Design team, you’ll also play a key role in defining processes, teaching best practices, and elevating the craft bar
- Setting direction for the product: driving product-market-fit exploration and longer term strategies for a 0-1 product
- Plan and design features for IT Admins that give them the control they need to safely and responsibly deploy, use, and get value from AI-powered tools to hundreds and thousands of users on their team
- Guiding the immediate development process: planning roadmaps with your PM partner and partnering closely with engineers and Research
- Regularly meet with top stakeholders for the go-to-market motions for Dash, and represent the broader Design team and IT admin experiences in those forums
- Running design sprints or related exercises to quickly synthesize insights, iterate on solutions, and evaluate with regular customer contact throughout
- Executing detailed and thorough designs accounting for edge cases and technical constraints
- Socializing and collaborating on your work—with your immediate team, in addition to more broadly across Dropbox
- Mentoring members of our team in methods, craft, communication, and socialization
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.
Freddie
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
(Co-Founder)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
Drew Houston
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Computer Science at MIT before founding Dropbox straight out of university
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