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Director, Product Design
DropBox
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Company Description
Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that's transforming the way people work together, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. With more than 500 million registered users across more than 180 countries, our mission is to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a more enlightened way of working. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Dropbox has more than 12 offices around the world.
Team Description
Our Research & 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
The Dropbox Design team is looking for a Director of Design to lead multi-disciplined teams in building products that are simple, opinionated, and well-crafted. As the Director of Design you will lead one of Dropbox’s core product areas, and coordinating with leadership across other teams. You’ll join our talented team and help shape not just our products, but our people and the way we design and build. On a typical day, you’ll give feedback in design critiques, coach your team through challenges, make strategic decisions with your peers in Product and Engineering, and interview candidates to join our team.
Responsibilities
• Shape and communicate a compelling long-term design strategy and vision
• Own the design process for your team—from problem definition to design implementation
• Partner with product, engineering, and research to ensure projects are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed
• Guide products towards solutions that are unquestionably simple, intuitive, and “just work” for our users
• Work closely with design leadership to ensure a cohesive user experience across all products
• Manage and coach Product Designers and Product Design Managers
• Grow the design team by attracting and retaining new talent
Requirements
• At least 5 years of professional experience leading or managing a design team and 10 years within the design community
• A portfolio of relevant design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that conveys an ability to ship successful products that people love
• A user-centered approach to designing software for people
• Experience working with engineers and product managers to drive strategy, vision, and execution
• Experience attracting and hiring design talent
• Comfortable juggling a wide range of responsibilities at the same time
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with others
Benefits and Perks
• 100% company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
• 401k + company match
• Market competitive total compensation package
• Free Dropbox space for your friends and family
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Generous vacation policy
• 10 company paid holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Company sponsored tech talks (technology and other relevant professional topics)
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).