People Partner, Dropbox
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CA$125.4-169.6k
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1001+ employees
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CA$125.4-169.6k
OTE
+ RSUs
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in HR or Employee Relations, including at least 3 years supporting managers and employees through performance management
- Demonstrated judgment handling complex employee relations matters and balancing employee experience with business priorities
- Strong critical thinking, problem-solving, and ability to navigate nuanced situations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt communication to different audiences and circumstances
- Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential employee information with discretion and integrity
- Proven ability to influence leaders and stakeholders without relying on direct authority
- Experience working effectively across distributed, cross-functional teams
- Ability to treat employee experience as a product, applying product management and design thinking to understand needs, prototype solutions, and drive execution through strong project management and data-driven iteration
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools in the flow of work. Candidates with a pre-existing comfort level & familiarity using AI to enhance productivity are strongly preferred
- Prior experience conducting internal investigations into employee complaints is a plus
- AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it. We believe people with these skills will thrive as work and technology continue to evolve:
- Awareness: Understand yourself and others
- Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations
- Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change
- Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust
What the job involves
- People Partners play an integral role on the HR Business Partner team, partnering with leaders, managers and employees to create a culture where people thrive
- Working hand in hand with HR Business Partners and Employee Relations, People Partners are enablers for enhancing talent density, employee experience, and spearheading processes that build organizational health across Dropbox
- We are seeking a People Partner to provide best in class support and partnership to Dropbox leaders and employees
- Your work will focus on: talent density, performance management, employee relations, workplace investigations, leaves of absence/accommodations, employee experience, offboarding, people projects and other operational tasks
- You will also analyze important people data and metrics, including attrition and performance management trends, and create insights and recommendations for leadership
- In your work, you will uphold our values and amplify the success of our business and products through our most important asset: our people
- Coach and guide managers through performance management and employee relations matters, helping ensure decisions are fair, principled, consistent, and grounded in sound judgment
- Use people data and trends to inform decisions and identify opportunities, including insights related to performance, attrition, organizational health, and employee experience
- Apply product management and design-thinking principles to the employee experience, identifying needs, prototyping solutions, prioritizing improvements, and iterating based on data and feedback
- Partner cross-functionally with HRBPs, Legal, and the broader People team to navigate complex employee matters and improve the overall employee experience
- Influence leaders, managers, and cross-functional partners to drive thoughtful decisions, adoption, and meaningful business and people outcomes
- Deliver clear and candid guidance on difficult or sensitive matters, balancing empathy for employees with business needs and organizational principles
- Independently manage competing priorities and complex employee matters, while collaborating effectively across a virtual-first organization
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
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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