Dropbox
Qualifications
- 10-15+ years experience in a senior Individual Contributor role
- Experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment
- Exceptional interaction and visual design skills
- Demonstrated portfolio of shipping amazing customer experiences that have made a significant impact on business and customer metrics
- Deep organization and execution capabilities, especially in areas of influence and collaboration with multiple stakeholder groups
- Excellent written/verbal communication - an engaging storyteller
- Proven ability to hold conversations on design with executives and external industry leaders
Responsibilities
- As a Principal Product Designer you will discover, pitch, and lead projects
- Your focus will be on transformation, and you’ll use design as a tool for honing product strategy decisions and ensuring Dropbox ships coherent and compelling experiences across products
- Because work is project-based you will operate in ambiguous terrain and often navigate the best way to elevate a team’s existing knowledge and talent while tactfully pushing ideas and roadmaps
- You’ll be tasked with wrangling the complex relationship between business need, customer need, and inspired design
- You’ll be asked to lead work independently, win people over, and most of all be motivated by getting into the pixels and mentoring other designers to create incredible work
- Your role will be threefold:
- Work across the Dropbox organizational structure, bringing focus to key customer journeys across our lines of business
- Ensure excellent Product Design craft across the organization
- Working with our talented Design Directors, Product Designers, Brand Leads, Research Leads and Content Designers to highlight and focus us down on sweating the right details for our customers
- Identify and drive company-level initiatives that have high value to our business and our customers
- Problem Opportunity & Framing; Proactively discover company level opportunities whose justifications are extremely challenging and help bring clarity and insight to these problems
- Ownership; Of specific design-led projects that you proactively seek out
- As well as working with the VP Design to identify programs of work where your direction and expertise are needed to guide the work to a successful customer focused outcome
- Execution; Work across the entire design organization to ensure that the quality of craft execution and our design practices are to the high standards that our business and customers expect
- Strategy; In close partnership with the VP Design and Design Leadership Team, help to execute and inform the ongoing evolution of the Design strategy and influence the Product strategies across our company
- Impact; You are able to develop innovative patterns and systems that are durable, repeatable and set a new standard for interaction for the company
Benefits
- 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