Senior Workforce Planning Partner, Dropbox
Smart workspace company
Job no longer available
Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years experience in a global, corporate organization in a Workforce Planning, Analytics or Consulting role
- Dashboards and Reporting: Able to create modeling tools, dashboards, and data visualizations; ability to analyze multiple sources of information/data, identify trends, translate data into insights, and develop recommendations based on analysis
- Project Management: Lead cross-team and/or multi-phase projects from design through implementation
- Complexity: Identify the right solutions to clarify and solve ambiguous, open-ended problems. Define/manage timelines, and escalate issues. Excellent prioritization and organizational skills
- Collaboration: Requires understanding of org culture and how decisions are made at Dropbox and able to build relationships across teams and maintain key cross-functional relationships across the organization (e.g., Finance, Recruiting, HRBPs) to help achieve positive outcomes. Ability to lead effectively in a global, matrixed organization and in a virtual environment
- Communication: Able to package and present analysis and recommendations; excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Agility: Able to adapt to shifting priorities and the changing demands of business, manage ambiguity, deliver results with a sense of urgency, and thrive in a fast-paced environment
- Business Acumen: Ability to effectively partner across Dropbox’s org/team structures and understand how teams work together across Dropbox
- Technology: Advanced knowledge and experience with Workday data/reporting, Data Visualizations (Excel, Tableau) and HR technology
What the job involves
- Headcount Management
- Implement workforce planning technology to automate our headcount and requisition management processes and enable scenario-based headcount planning
- Serve as a leader on the cross-functional Central Headcount Management team by developing workforce dashboards (e.g., weekly headcount tracker, location tracker, capacity planning dashboard for recruiting, etc.) and optimizing processes
- Workforce Analytics
- Partner with the Finance team to conduct supply and demand analysis, business scenario planning, and forecasting
- Partner with the People Analytics team on workforce analytics projects, including predictive analytics, dashboards/data visualization, and identifying trends and recommendations
- Partner with Talent Acquisition Operations to identify ways to highlight key headcount metrics and manage recruiting capacity
- Conduct external benchmarking talent intelligence and organization design research and refresh key workforce metrics via Radford’s Global Workforce Analytics (GWA) portal to support HRBPs and business leaders with WFP discussions
- Company Planning
- Support the Head of Workforce Planning and the Workforce Planning pillar of Dropbox’s annual company planning process in conjunction with Strategic Planning and Financial Planning
- Develop and implement materials/resources used to continuously optimize the company planning processes
- Equip and support HRBPs to deliver WFP sessions by developing communications, resources, and tools
- Roll-up and share outcomes with relevant stakeholders, including Talent Acquisition, Learning & Organization Development, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion teams
- Workforce Planning Technology
- In partnership with Finance and ITS, support the HR technology roadmap; participate in requirements gathering, building, testing, and implementation for WFP technology initiatives (e.g., Workday Position and Requisition Management, skills mapping, Talent Intelligence talent supply and job mapping)
- Strategic Workforce Planning
- Participate in projects that support the long-term vision and three-year roadmap for Dropbox’s Workforce Planning team, including building our capability to conduct long-range talent planning, resource allocation frameworks and leverage talent intelligence to inform people strategy and organizational design
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
- On-site fitness and meditation classes 🇬🇧
- Commuter subsidies 🇬🇧
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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