Staff Product Designer, Dropbox
$171.4-260.8k
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$171.4-260.8k
Salary varies depending on location of applicant; + corporate bonus program & Restricted Stock Units
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in product design
- Exceptional craft and attention to detail in visual design, interaction design, and prototyping
- Proficiency with prototyping tools to showcase complex features and web flows
- Experience using and contributing to design systems
- Proven track record of launching and iterating on products with a focus on business and customer impact
- Strong customer obsession with extensive experience leveraging UX research for foundational insights and iterative design
- Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional partners, including designers, researchers, PMs, data scientists, and engineers
- Experience spanning the full product lifecycle, from discovery to launch and iteration
- Ability to measure impact through both quantitative metrics and qualitative insights
- Ownership mindset with a proactive approach to driving projects and teams forward
Desirable
- Experience with 0-1 product initiatives
- Experience with AI
- Experience in growth design
- Experience in Enterprise products
What the job involves
- As a Staff Product Designer working on Dash, you will be at the forefront of reimagining design for the next generation of AI-powered products. You will help define the future of our AI experiences, collaborating across teams to integrate cutting-edge technologies that make our product even more intuitive, intelligent, and powerful
- Drive impact and take initiative and deliver high-quality work that creates meaningful value for customers
- Champion customer needs and deeply understand Dash customers, validate solutions through research and testing, and ensure designs address real user problems
- Design intuitive interactions, create flexible, scalable interaction systems. Anticipate edge cases and design seamless, multi-step, cross-platform experiences
- Craft thoughtful visuals and apply strong visual design principles—including layout, color, typography, and hierarchy—to produce clean, effective interfaces
- Explore and iterate, taking a methodical approach to solution exploration—testing concepts at various levels of fidelity. Generate a wide range of ideas informed by user input, data, and business needs
- Align with product strategy to understand our business model and how the product strategy supports it. Design solutions that align with strategic goals and are grounded in customer insight and data
- Make smart decisions and engage the right stakeholders, incorporate customer perspectives, and make timely, well-informed decisions that move work forward
- Communicate with clarity, communicate ideas clearly in both writing and speech to build shared understanding and support effective decisions. Keep stakeholders informed and aligned by proactively sharing context and raising issues early
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: $607.3m
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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