Senior Product Manager, Generalist

Posted Jul 9

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

Dropbox simplifies the way people work together. Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Dropbox to work the way they want, on any device, wherever they go. As we scale our global brand, you have the opportunity to simplify life for millions of people globally in a team that creates delightful products that are worthy of trust.

Product managers set the vision for our growing family of products. We’re responsible for guiding multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal: shipping high quality products and features on time at known quality. As advocates for both our users and our business, the best product managers balance diverse perspectives and empower teams to do great work.

As a Product Manager working on our core experience across web and mobile web, you’ll be focused on the end-to-end customer journey that enable users to get the most out off their content. You will play a critical role in improving how our users browse, navigate, share and receive content every day. This team serves hundreds of millions of users and is focused on enabling collaboration across individuals and teams. 

Responsibilities

  • Own features and experiments end-to-end. We follow a hypothesis-driven development approach where you’ll write product specs, drive cross-functional execution and work with Engineering, Design and Analytics to balance tradeoffs, driving to outcomes. 
  • Be an expert at prioritization. Balance your roadmap with tech foundational efforts and bugs to ensure that the highest value is delivered to users.
  • Drive to results. Your expertise in navigating challenges that arise during execution will be important as you deliver on your roadmap: making trade-offs, anticipating staffing needs, risks, and ensuring frequent and clear communication to all of your internal stakeholders.
  • Know your customer. You’ll work with a tight-knit team of data science, research, design and customer experience to ensure that you know the ins and outs of our users and are consistently delivering value for them. 
  • Building out what the future of the web experience could be and how it intersects with the desktop and mobile app.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of product management experience, ideally ownership of core surface or user experience.
  • Impact driven and a consistent history of delivering measurable results for both users and the business.
  • Deep understanding and empathy for end-users, and a track record of building products that make customers feel joy, delight and trust.
  • Build alignment and listen well, but can also drive hard decisions, framing the different options and tradeoffs. 
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a highly collaborative environment.
  • Ability to analyze and use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions.
  • Strong communicator (written and verbal), with an ability to influence with cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Capable of diverging with partners in the Design function and converging with partners in the Engineering function.
  • Expert at optimizing large scale surfaces by delivering increasing usability, customer value, and performance gains.

Total Rewards

US Zone 1

$199,800—$270,300 USD

US Zone 2

$179,800—$243,200 USD

US Zone 3

$159,800—$216,200 USD

The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.

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.

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 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. However, for this role, the locations posted are preferred.

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
  • (US Only) Competitive 401(k) Plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
  • Flexible Time Off/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer time off and more
  • Protection Plans including; Life Insurance, Disability Insurance and Travel benefit plans
  • Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
  • Parental benefits including; Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA (US Only), Fertility Benefits (US Only), Adoption and Surrogacy support and Lactation Support 

Mental Health and Wellness benefits Free Dropbox space for your friends and family 

Additional benefits details are available upon request.

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).