Senior Director of Product Design, Dropbox

• At least 7+ years of professional experience leading or managing a design team
• At least 2+ years designing, building and leading a design system team at a mature company
• Experience leading senior ICs, especially principal level and ability to guide them to contributing maximum impact
• A portfolio of relevant design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that conveys an ability to ship successful products that customers love
• A customer-centered approach to designing products for people
• A hands-on, self starter leader, with high ownership, who can think big, but also dive-deep and straddle both altitudes while connecting the dots
• Deep experience working with product managers, engineering, and marketing to drive vision, strategy and execution
• Comfortable juggling a wide range of responsibilities at the same time
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with others
• If you're passionate about creating products that are equally thoughtful, powerful and delightful, join our Design & Research team

Desirable

• Dropbox’s Core team is looking for a Design Leader to lead product design teams in building best-in-class product experiences that delight our customers
• This leader will shape the vision and execution of foundational design team within Core, including design systems and portfolio
• This means leading our most strategic ICs in defining the future of Core and leading a cross-functional team to build the foundational components, primitives and patterns leveraged by all of Dropbox design
• This role will also be critical in contributing to our world-class design discipline, guiding talented designers, PMs, and engineers focused on high levels of craft and quality across Dropbox
• You’ll work closely with leaders across the business and shape not just our products, but our people and the way we design and build
• Craft and communicate a multi-year vision with company-wide impact across their teams
• Lead teams to deliver strategic initiatives that require extensive collaboration with and influence of senior leaders across Dropbox
• Lead the team in balancing urgency vs. the incredibly high quality bar expected by both our customers and the broader Dropbox organization
• Lead the design process and product development for your team — from problem definition to design implementation
• Partner closely with leadership across functions - product, engineering, research, marketing, and other cross functional teams - to ensure products and systems are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed
• Work closely with design leadership to ensure a cohesive customer experience across all products
• Create a team of best-in-class designers who obsess over customers and move fast in a highly ambiguous environment
• Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Dropbox's values and continue to develop Dropbox as one of the best places to work
• The Dropbox Design & Research Team creates experiences that make work feel effortless
• We're problem solvers and innovators, combining research insights with thoughtful design to craft solutions that make users’ lives easier
• Through iterative design and deep user research, we uncover, understand, and solve fundamental problems that impede enlightened work
• We don't just make things look good—we make complex technologies feel intuitive and joyful by putting human needs at the center
• Areas of work include Research Program Management, Customer Access Programs (CAPS), User Experience Design, User Research, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, Accessibility Design, Content Design, and Prototyping