Chief of Staff, Dropbox
People Team Intern (Summer 2025)
US Monthly Pay Range is $6,500—$6,500 USD
Smart workspace company
Job no longer available
Smart workspace company
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
US Monthly Pay Range is $6,500—$6,500 USD
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Currently pursuing a master’s degree in Human Capital Management, Organizational Development, Social Sciences (e.g., Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, Political Science, Public Policy), Communications, Business Administration, or a related field, with an expected graduation in Winter 2025 or Spring 2026
- Passion for People & Strategy: Interested in strategy, operations, and the evolving role of HR
- Organized & Detail-Oriented: Strong project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities
- Clear Communicator: Strong written and verbal communication skills to engage diverse audiences
Desirable
- Proactive & Resourceful: A self-starter who takes initiative and thrives in a fast-moving environment
- Data-Savvy: Comfortable analyzing data, spotting trends, and drawing meaningful insights
- Adaptable & Resilient: Able to navigate ambiguity and adjust to changing priorities in a dynamic workplace
- Remote-Ready: Comfortable working in a Virtual First environment and collaborating across time zones
What the job involves
- As an intern reporting to the Chief of Staff to the Chief People Officer, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the strategy and operational rhythms of Dropbox’s People team
- Your responsibilities will improve your generalist skillset, including operating rhythm management (All Hands, budget, OKR setting and tracking), event coordination and planning, tracking and change management related to 2025 People team strategy, and research on trends, benchmarking, and best practices to help inform 2026 planning
- As part of the People team, you will collaborate with subteams across the People team and key cross functional partners in finance, communications, and the Office of the CEO
- Through this internship opportunity, you will gain hands-on experience in the dynamic field of HR strategy and operations within a global tech company
- For Summer 2025, our start and end dates can be found below, culminating in a 12-week internship: 5/27 - 8/15, 6/24 - 9/12
- Team Operations & Communication: Support the coordination of key People team activities, including All Hands meetings, budget tracking, and goal-setting processes (OKRs)
- Growth & Development Initiatives: Assist in shaping and implementing a strategy to expand the team's skills, with a focus on building well-rounded HR generalists
- Bringing a Product Mindset to HR: Help introduce product management and design thinking principles to improve how the People team drives change and communicates effectively
- Tracking 2025 Priorities: Contribute to quarterly reviews and strategic planning efforts to keep the 2025 roadmap on track
- Looking Ahead to 2026: Conduct research on HR trends, industry benchmarks, and best practices to inform future planning
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
(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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