Chief of Staff, Dropbox
Business Development
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
- Top-tier MBA and/or management consulting experience; preference is for someone who has both
- 5+ years experience in operations, business planning, or similar
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing, with executive audiences – simplicity is one of your superpowers
- Strong organization and project management skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities at once. Able to drive projects forward, provide structure to ambiguity, and resourceful in finding the right information and stakeholders
- Business minded – critical thinker and problem solver with general understanding of business priorities and ability to understand implications of decisions across the business
- Strong relationship-building skills with demonstrated history of delivering projects cross-functionally and within a team
- Natural curiosity and eagerness to learn
What the job involves
- Operating Cadence – Keep the team focused, on-strategy, and ensure BD representation at the Company level. This includes running BD’s annual planning cycle, quarterly OKRs, monthly business reviews for our CFO and other cross-functional stakeholders, and providing input to company Business Reviews
- Team Effectiveness – Enable the team to accomplish their goals efficiently and with high quality. This includes identification of opportunities for improvement, as well as the creation and implementation of processes and templates to ensure consistency. It also includes running effective leadership meetings and team offsite sessions – setting agendas, ensuring quality preparation, and accomplishment of objectives
- Strategic Direction – Be the expert on Dropbox strategy to understand where BD can accelerate those strategies and ensure interlock between BD and its cross-functional partners
- Special Projects & Thought Partner to the VP of Business Development – support executive Business Development work and be a sounding board on team strategy and challenges with the VP of Business Development. Act as an internal consultant to the VP, building out high-impact proposals and presentations
- Partner with cross-functional counterparts to accomplish the above, i.e. FP&A, HR Business Partner, Legal, Comms
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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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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