Staff Product Manager, Dropbox
$183.6-310.5k
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1001+ employees
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$183.6-310.5k
OTE
Salary/OTE dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex, multi-platform product initiatives
- Proven success building and shipping AI-powered or cross-platform products at scale—ideally in productivity, SaaS, or consumer software
- Strong product instincts and design sense, particularly for mobile and desktop experiences
- Experience working in 0→1 environments with high ambiguity and rapid iteration
- Deep understanding of user workflows and pain points, informed by research, data, and competitive analysis
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills; able to inspire teams and influence senior stakeholders
- Passion for the future of work, AI, and creating tools that help people focus and do their best work
Desirable
- Background in AI/ML, NLP, or data science
- Experience building assistants, browser extensions, or context-aware productivity tools
- Expertise in mobile and multi-surface UX patterns
- Familiarity with privacy, security, and ethical considerations in AI development
What the job involves
- Dropbox is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of Dash’s core surfaces—spanning desktop, mobile, and browser extension. Dash is Dropbox’s universal search and organizational assistant, helping people find, organize, and act on their work through powerful, AI-driven experiences
- In this role, you’ll shape how users engage with Dash across every touchpoint—defining how our assistant shows up contextually, seamlessly, and intelligently across platforms. You’ll own the cross-surface experience strategy, ensuring Dash feels cohesive and deeply useful no matter where people work
- This is a high-impact, 0→1 role at the center of Dropbox’s AI transformation. You’ll explore new interaction models, drive system-wide consistency, and push the boundaries of what AI can do for productivity across modalities and devices
- Own and evolve the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Dash’s multi-surface experiences (desktop, mobile, browser extension)
- Define how Dash’s assistant manifests across platforms—ensuring intuitive, context-aware, and performant experiences that meet users where they are
- Translate AI capabilities into concrete strategies, hypotheses, and product bets that add value into user’s workflows
- Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Research, and GTM to ship AI-powered features that delight users and scale globally
- Collaborate with Dropbox’s AI/ML and Platform teams to ensure privacy-respecting, reliable, and efficient AI implementations
- Drive alignment across teams and functions, advocating for a unified multi-surface experience that reinforces Dash’s value across the Dropbox ecosystem
- Define success metrics, measure impact, and drive iteration through experimentation and disciplined execution
- Act as a thought leader—mentoring other PMs, contributing to the AI product strategy, and representing the Surfaces perspective in cross-company initiatives
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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