Senior Director, Product Management
Dropbox
Company Description
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Team Description
Our Product team advocates for our users and our business, setting the vision for our growing family of products. We use data, research, strategy, and empathy to guide multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal, balancing diverse perspectives and empowering our teams to do great work. As we scale globally, there’s plenty of space for you to grow alongside us and simplify life for millions of people around the world in team that always focuses on we, not I, and creates delightful products that are worthy of trust.
Role Description
You will have direct responsibility for the Dropbox product strategy, a product loved by 700m+ users worldwide focused on the way that our users grow and expand at Dropbox. You will also have significant strategic impact and influence on the overall company direction as you’ll own the global monetization strategy and expansion for the Core product. You will work closely with teams to deliver on improving and refining the beloved exiting value and innovate and develop new Dropbox core experiences that help users get work down wherever they are, from any device.
When you join, you’ll will be responsible for leading key company initiatives alongside cross-org and cross-functional teams which are critical to deliver on the company’s goals through shipping high quality customer experiences. A successful product leader will be able to come in, ramp on the domain quickly and balance perspectives across a range of functions, bring relevant experience, competitive insights and then set direction that empowers and energizes teams to deliver their best work in a fast-paced growth environment. At times, these functions while having aligned incentives, will need to be brought along on the prioritization that’s most critical for reaching goals. You will need to have a deep understanding of users, strong analytical skills and design sense and high bar for product craft.
Responsibilities
- Define and evangelize company-level product vision, strategy and roadmaps for key parts of the Dropbox product experience that deeply engages users across Dropbox’s self-serve and managed products across monetization, sharing, team expansion and retention.
- Become an expert on Dropbox’s growth engine - understanding how to improve key funnels and flywheels.
- Lead and engage lock-step with Marketing, Data Science, Pricing and Packaging, Research and our customers to understand, analyze, synthesize and evangelize key user needs and opportunities into product priorities, roadmaps and detailed PRDs.
- Bias for action and ability to operate at any altitude.
- Collaborate and cultivate strong relationships across Engineering and Design to test, quickly iterate and launch experiences that will support acceleration of monetization through activation and onboarding experiences.
Requirements
- 10+ years experience as a Product Manager
- Strong empathy for users — a customer champion
- Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in an innovative and fast-paced environment. You can turn ambiguous problems and big ideas into an actionable roadmap of features, experiments, research — all with minimal guidance
- Deep understanding of how your products work together — and what levers equate to short v. long-term success. You can quickly understand and translate results and how they ladder up to the larger goal set.
- You can make hard decisions — and push those around you to excel, even when they’re not in your organization.
- You have a spike in operational excellence.
- Leadership experience in coordinating and motivating teams across multiple organizational boundaries
- Excitement about building product experiences that create measurable business value, and in a time of extreme transformation
- Understanding of how business impact ladders into financial results and business performance
Preferred Qualifications
- Growth experience at a PLG SaaS company
- Abiilty to also player/coach when necessary
Compensation
The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change.
Please note, OTE are for sales roles only.
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.
Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:
• US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
• US Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington DC metro, and West Virginia (DC metro)
• US Zone 3: All other US locations
Dropbox is a Virtual First company and is open to hiring candidates in all authorized locations.
Benefits
Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
- Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
- Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food and groceries, and much more
- Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA, Fertility Benefits, Adoption and Surrogacy Support, and Lactation Support
- Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.to, making it easy to book flexible workspaces for collaboration or individual work
- Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Disability and neurodivergence support benefits
Additional benefit details are available upon request.