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Director of Product Management, Product Platform
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 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
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.
Your role and impact
As Director of Product Management owning the Product Platform PM team, you will be responsible for setting direction and driving major strategic initiatives. You will dedicate your team to making Dropbox engineering, product, and design more effective and productive by making it easier, faster and safer to ship quality experiences. You will have significant strategic impact and influence, helping direct the company as we move into the next phase of growth. Your work will range from low-level abstractions to make development easier for engineers, release processes and gating to empower Dropbox product teams to experiment, to common UI components that allow designers to build beautiful and consistent experiences, working with an amazing team of talented, passionate product managers and leaders from across teams and functions.
Responsibilities
• Own the cross-functional teams in your area – in close partnership with engineering and design
• Drive Dropbox’s long term platform strategy across Mobile, Desktop, Web, UI Platform (aka Design Systems) and Internationalization, spearheading key initiatives and driving cross-functional alignment and progress
• Work closely with our diverse internal partners across Product, Engineering, Customer Support, and Sales to deeply understand and address platform needs
• Be a champion of Dropbox’s users, especially in areas where platform decisions can have material user impact
• Work with the rest of Infrastructure and Platform leadership to ensure they’re making the right trade-offs given product and business exigencies
• Partner with Marketing and PR to share the impact of the team’s work with the world
• Grow and support a talented team who embody Dropbox’s values, have fun together, and take pride in building wonderful products
Requirements
• 10+ years of experience building great software, with at least 5 of those in a Product Management role.
• Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with engineers
• Launched multiple successful products, preferably on multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux and/or web)
• Strong communication, influence and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to craft clarity and drive focus in complex and dynamic contexts
• Ability to lead teams and work cross-functionally in a highly collaborative environment
• Proven leadership managing and growing a strong PM team
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).