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Product Designer
DropBox
Seattle, WA, United States
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Company Description
Dropbox supports hundreds of millions of creators and innovators around the world. Our mission is to simplify the way people work together. Dropbox Business is trusted by over 200,000 companies to safeguard their most important information. As we continue to build the best place to create, share, and work with others, there’s a perfect spot for you to grow with us.
Team Description
Our Research and Design team crafts delightful experiences that make people's lives easier. We're a close-knit, collaborative group, guided by a highly iterative user-centered design process. Combining research, data, and thoughtful critique, we're discovering needs and solving fundamental problems that impact work and life for millions of people around the world.
Role Description
Imagine all the information that you need to get stuff done today. How do you get that information today? What do you even search for? How do you navigate to it? What if you totally forgot what it was called, or where it lived, or maybe you don’t even know it exists?
Now imagine a world where technology can predict what you are looking for, based on your previous activity, your tasks, your calendar, your patterns, the people you work with, the knowledge of the company that you don’t even know, etc. How would that even work? What would that experience look like? How magical can we make it? Our Seattle team will be focused on figuring out how to make that happen.
The candidate profile
• Strong designer to help set the tone of Dropbox Seattle Design and instill trust from other offices
• Very user-centered approach to problem-solving
• Previous user research experience is a huge plus
• Advanced product thinker
• Solid execution skills (interaction and visual design)
• Ideally, someone that has depth in technical knowledge/programming
• Overly communicative and has mature toolbox of communication and teamwork styles given this will is a remote team
• Willing to define and navigate ambiguity
• Very self-driven and autonomous
• Working style involves close interaction with Engineering and Product Management
• You geek out over information retrieval and surfacing predictive relevant content
Requirements
• You're an experience whisperer, and you can distill complicated problems into simple and elegant solutions.
• An understanding of what makes an experience good or bad is critical. You can think through user problems, find reasonable solutions, mock them up in detail, and work with engineers to build them.
• We love making things beautiful and hope you feel the same. You have a deep understanding of composition, balance, symmetry, and white space.
• You have a highly refined aesthetic sense and can both work within and expand the Dropbox style.
• You're a self-starter who actively seeks ways to make the Dropbox experience both visually appealing and easy to use.
• You look for opportunities to solve problems in unusual and innovative ways.
• You understand the technical limitations and liberties behind your decisions and have enough chops to communicate your ideas to our engineers.
• Experience designing for the web and understanding how to apply both form and function within it while maintaining simplicity.
• You construct your own iconography, set your own guidelines, and build easy-to-navigate documents.
• You read everything and will paste an html heart character before your first name on the next page.
• You want to work on a team of the world's best software designers and engineers, building a product that you use every single day!
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent practical work experience in Design
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).