Principal Product Manager, Dropbox
Dash Start Page and Surfaces
$210.8-356.5k
+ Corporate bonus program & RSUs
Smart workspace company
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Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$210.8-356.5k
+ Corporate bonus program & RSUs
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about building AI-native, cross-platform product experiences that redefine how people work, we’d love to meet you
- 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of major product initiatives end-to-end
- Proven success building and shipping AI-powered products at scale—especially in productivity, SaaS, or consumer software
- Deep product sense and consumer instincts—especially on mobile or multi-surface experiences
- Comfort operating in 0→1, pre-PMF environments with shifting priorities and open-ended problem spaces
- Deeply understand customer workflows and pain points through user research, data analysis, and competitive insights
- Strategic thinker with excellent communication skills; you can inspire teams and influence at every level, from ICs to executives
- Passion for the future of work, AI, and building products that help people focus on what matters most
Desirable
- Background in AI/ML, NLP, or data science
- Experience working on assistants, chatbots, or productivity-enhancing tools
- Familiarity with privacy, security, and ethical considerations in AI product development
What the job involves
- Dropbox is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of our next-generation AI-powered experiences within Dash, Dropbox’s universal search and organizational assistant
- In this role, you’ll shape how people find, organize, and act on their work—crafting intelligent, contextual, and deeply useful experiences across desktop, mobile, and web
- You’ll define the vision for Dash’s most visible surfaces and entry points—whether it’s reimagining the Start Page as a daily hub for focus and flow, or evolving our on-device and mobile experiences into intelligent companions for deep work
- These are high-impact, 0→1 roles, giving you the opportunity to explore new interaction models and push the boundaries of what AI can do for productivity
- This position demands a balance of customer obsession, technical fluency in AI/ML systems, and strong product instincts
- You’ll navigate across executive and IC audiences, translating ambiguous opportunities into clear, scalable strategies
- Own and evolve the product vision and roadmap for your area (Surfaces and Start Page), driving alignment across functions
- Translate ambiguous problems and AI opportunities into clear strategies, experiments, and roadmaps
- Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Research, and GTM to ship innovative, AI-powered features at scale
- Collaborate with the Dropbox AI/ML and Platform teams to ensure scalable, privacy-respecting, and performant AI implementations
- Act as a thought leader—coaching other PMs, contributing to company-wide AI product strategy, and influencing direction across teams
- Define success metrics and deliver measurable impact through experimentation, iteration, and disciplined execution
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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