Senior Product Manager, Core Foundations
Dropbox
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Please refer to our Compensation section below to see what neighborhoods fall under each Zone.
Company Description
Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of more than 2,000 bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the flexibility of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.
Team Description
The Dropbox Product Management Team envisions and builds the future of work while growing our business, one product at a time. We're strategic thinkers and advocates for our users, crafting solutions that make work more intuitive and joyful. Using data, research, and strategy—and a healthy dose of empathy—we guide cross-functional teams toward the shared goal of creating transformative products that people love to use. If you're passionate about building solutions that reshape how the world works while delighting users in the process, join our Product Management team. Areas of work include Product Management, Product Strategy, User Research, Data Analytics, Product Operations, Growth Strategy, and Go-to-Market Planning.
Role Description
Join our team as a Senior Product Manager for Core Foundations, where you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the bedrock of our foundational user experience. Your collaboration with teams from engineering to design will be essential in crafting a product vision and strategy that not only meets today's needs but paves the way for future innovation. You'll have the unique opportunity to drive the evolution of Dropbox, refreshing essential features to bolster our growth and introduce new offerings.
Responsibilities
- Develop a long-term product vision that aligns with business goals and is informed by market trends. Translate customer feedback into actionable product milestones and assess competitor products to identify market opportunities. Create and maintain a product vision document to guide the development teams.
- Benchmark industry best practices to inform strategic decisions and define key performance indicators that measure the success of these strategies. Ensure that product initiatives are in alignment with the company's overarching objectives.
- Establish and maintain robust working relationships across engineering, design, and marketing teams to coordinate coherent product strategies. Integrate input from all stakeholders to refine the features and functions of our product.
- Analyze existing user interactions to identify enhancement opportunities. Partner with design teams to refine the user interface and flow. Implement A/B testing to perfect features and gather user feedback through surveys, interviews, and usability studies. Work in collaboration with user experience researchers to gain insights into user behaviors.
- Engage directly with customers to gather detailed feedback and gain a deep understanding of their primary needs. Use these insights to shape the product development process and always advocate for the customer perspective during team discussions. Keep a close eye on customer experience trends to guide product improvements.
- Skillfully rank product features based on impact and effort to inform sprint planning. Balance the demands of stakeholders with user requirements and technical limitations. Allocate resources selectively to concentrate on high-value initiatives and features. Lead cross-functional teams in decomposing complex projects into actionable tasks.
- Develop key performance metrics to gauge product performance and utilize data analysis for continuous improvement. Manage the execution of product initiatives, ensuring milestones and deliverables are met. Lead cross-functional teams to achieve project goals within set timelines.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field
- 8+ years in product management or related field
- Proven ability to develop long-term product visions and strategies
- A deep understanding and empathy for end-users — you love building products that make our customers feel joy, delight and trust
- Impact driven and a consistent history of delivering measurable results for both users and the business
- Build alignment and listen well, but can also drive hard decisions, framing the different options and tradeoffs
- Ability to analyze and use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions
- Strong communication, with an ability to influence with cross-functional collaboration skills
- Track record of launching and scaling successful products
- Experience in leading cross-functional teams to meet project goals and deadlines
- Evidence of improving key product metrics and contributing to revenue growth
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience with SaaS companies, including their complexities, scale, and foundational technologies.
- Strong data analytics skills to independently query for data, analyze it, and generate insights to inform product direction.
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
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
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.