Senior Director of Software Engineering, Dropbox

• 15+ years of engineering experience in a medium or large software company including 6+ years managing high performance teams
• Experience managing 150+ person engineering organization
• Ability to balance business delivery with engineering quality, strong business acumen, and a keen eye for data-driven decision making, and a knack for managing both immediate needs and long-term investments
• Bias to action and high quality execution
• Strong technical craft mastery and engineering discipline
• Deep organization capabilities, especially in regards to influence, collaboration and communication
• Experience building out and empowering a high performing culture that embodies agency, a growth mindset and extreme ownership
• Deep interest in recent AI developments and implications in the search and ranking domains
• Demonstrated ability to hire and grow senior leaders and managers

Desirable

• As the Senior Director of Engineering for the Core Business at Dropbox, you will be a key leader responsible for the overall success of engineering initiatives for our core products
• You will report directly to the VP of Engineering for Core and play a pivotal role in shaping the engineering direction of Dropbox Core
• In this role, you will have end-to-end ownership of engineering for many Core services and components and will partner closely with product, growth, and design teams
• You will lead the engineering teams responsible for the development and innovation of core products such as File Sync and Share (FSS), and integrations with Dropbox Dash
• You will be leading a top-tier product engineering team
• You will lead and inspire a world-class engineering organization, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• You will lead the team in balancing urgency vs. the incredibly high quality bar expected by both our customers and the broader Dropbox organization, through clear and repeatable engineering processes
• You will partner closely with Dropbox leadership across all functions, including Product, Growth, Design, Platform, ITS, GTM and Support to manage success of cross-functional relationships and initiatives
• You will create a culture of strong technical ownership, resulting in highly reliable products and services at scale
• You will set technical direction, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the successful delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-performance software solutions
• You'll foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Dropbox's values and continue to develop Dropbox as one of the best places to work