Product Designer, Dropbox
CA$160.7-217.3k
+Corporate Bonus program and stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
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CA$160.7-217.3k
+Corporate Bonus program and stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
1001+ employees
Company mission
Dropbox's mission is to design a more enlightened way of working.
Role
Who you are
- 6+ years of experience in UX-related roles
- Exceptional craft and attention to detail in visual design, interaction design, and prototyping
- Proficiency with prototyping tools to showcase complex features and web flows
- Proven track record of launching and iterating on products with a focus on business and customer impact
- Strong customer obsession with extensive experience leveraging UX research for foundational insights and iterative design
- Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional partners, including designers, researchers, PMs, data scientists, and engineers
- Experience spanning the full product lifecycle, from discovery to launch and iteration
- Expertise in designing for mature products, balancing incremental improvements, visionary goals, and step-change enhancements
- Ability to measure impact through both quantitative metrics and qualitative insights
- Ownership mindset with a proactive approach to driving projects and teams forward
- Deep expertise in using and contributing to design systems
Desirable
- Experience designing for a specialized customer audience in an SaaS environment
- Examples of redesigning large portions of mature products in a large, matrixed team
What the job involves
- The Dropbox Core team is seeking a Senior Product Designer to craft exceptional product experiences that delight our customers
- With a strong foundation in design craft and quality, you’ll join a team dedicated to enhancing the Web experience—a critical platform that drives the highest traffic for Dropbox
- Your mission will involve delivering impactful UX and visual improvements that elevate feature adoption, utilization, and retention for key functionalities most valued by our customers
- In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with Product Managers to transform business challenges, product hypotheses, and feature requests into tangible, quantifiable, and solvable customer problems
- You’ll be empowered to design effective solutions and deliver elegant user experiences through close partnership with cross-functional peers
- Additionally, you’ll work hand-in-hand with Engineering to bring these solutions to life, ensuring a seamless and high-quality execution
- Problem Framing: Thoroughly analyzing and translating feature requests, product hypotheses, or broader business challenges into clear, actionable, and solvable customer problems
- Solution Generation: Developing a wide range of potential solutions to address a given customer or business problem
- Interaction and Visual Design: Elevating promising solutions by refining them into their most intuitive, elegant, and user-friendly form. This involves balancing simplicity with functionality, ensuring the final design not only meets customer needs but also aligns with the highest standards of aesthetic and interaction quality
- Collaboration: Building strong partnerships with Product Management and Engineering teams to align on the most valuable and feasible ideas. This includes facilitating open communication, integrating many perspectives, and co-creating solutions that maximize impact while staying within technical and timeline constraints
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: $607.3m
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 values
- Be Worthy of Trust - Millions of teams trust us with their most important information. But this trust can vanish in an instant. That’s why integrity is the foundation of our culture. We do the right thing, even when nobody’s looking. And we’re honest—even when it’s uncomfortable
- They win, We win - Our customers come first. So we put in the work to deeply understand them. We ask, “Who’s the customer?” and “What do they really need?” When they succeed, our business (and everything else) falls into place
- Keep it Simple - Simple things work better—and make more sense. So we build products that do a few things really well. And we don’t overcomplicate life at Dropbox, whether it’s a plan or a process. Getting to simple isn’t always easy, but it’s worth the effort
- Own it - We take responsibility for our work, from start to finish. When we get stuck, we unblock ourselves. When something goes wrong, we don’t ask, “What did they screw up?” but “What could I do better?” We learn from our mistakes and keep going—until we have real impact
- Make work Human - Our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working, for Dropboxers and the world. So we make products that prioritize our needs as humans. And we build a compassionate culture where you can do your best work—no matter who you are or where you’re from
Company HQ
Mission Bay, San Francisco, CA
Articles
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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