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Staff Product Designer

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Remote
Hiring Remotely in Canada
179K-242K Annually
Expert/Leader
Remote
Hiring Remotely in Canada
179K-242K Annually
Expert/Leader
Lead strategic, high-visibility design initiatives for Dropbox Bridge AI efforts. Define opportunities, own projects from concept to delivery, simplify complex workflows, prototype with generative AI, and ensure high craftsmanship. Influence product and design strategy, collaborate cross-functionally with product and engineering, mentor designers, and elevate design quality and storytelling across distributed teams.
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Role Description

As a Staff Product Designer on Bridge, you will lead multiple highly-visible design initiatives that deliver against Dropbox’s strategic bets around AI. This role will require you to lead with vision, driving strategic initiatives that blend design excellence with customer empathy and innovation. You will also help shape our team’s culture, personally role modeling excellence across strategy, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and storytelling. 

Responsibilities
  • Problem definition: Define high-level opportunities that have the potential to transform the user experience and business outcomes. Bring clarity, insight, and strategic focus to these challenges.
  • Ownership: Take ownership of strategic, design-led projects, driving them from concept to delivery. Advocate and guide the team toward customer-centered, innovative outcomes.
  • Execution: Work with the broader design organization to ensure that all designs are executed to the highest standards of craftsmanship and usability. Focus on simplifying complex workflows that simplify user experiences for multiple customers.
  • Strategy: Help shape and execute the broader design strategy, influencing product strategy across the team and ensuring alignment with business goals. Collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering Leadership to align strategic design initiatives with company goals.
Requirements
  • 10-15+ years in a senior Individual Contributor role, with a proven track record of leading complex design initiatives with simple and elegant solutions.
  • A portfolio showcasing significant contributions to shipping customer experiences that have made a measurable impact on business and customer metrics.
  • Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholder groups, including engineering, product management, and leadership, influencing design strategy and ensuring successful execution.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence key stakeholders. Strong storytelling skills to present and advocate for design decisions.
  • Familiarity leveraging generative AI for exploration and prototyping.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Proven ability to lead design efforts in remote or distributed team environments, driving collaboration across time zones and organizational silos.
  • Leadership driving company-wide initiatives to up-level design quality (ex: teaching prototyping classes or mentoring other designers).
Durable Skills

AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it. We believe people with these skills will thrive as work and technology continue to evolve:

  • Awareness: Understand yourself and others.
  • Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations.
  • Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change.
  • Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust.

To learn more about why these skills matter and what the data shows about thriving through change, read this blog post from our Chief People Officer, Melanie Rosenwasser.

Compensation
Canada Pay Range
$178,500$241,500 CAD
HQ

Dropbox San Francisco, California, USA Office

Though remote is our primary way of working, meaningful in-person connection and collaboration is a critical part of Virtual First. Our San Francisco Studio is a place for teams to come together to host meetings, off-sites, and build community.

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