Director, Product Design

Dropbox; Canada; On-site; CAD 208,000 - 282,000; Full time

Job summary

Dropbox is seeking a Design Leader for the Director, Product Design role. The successful candidate will lead product design teams, craft compelling product strategies, and ensure top-quality design execution. We value customer-centered approaches and require at least 5 years of design leadership experience.

Benefits

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage

Flexible PTO policy

Income Protection Plans

Business Travel Protection

Parental benefits

Mental health and wellness benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading or managing a design team.
• Portfolio showcasing successful products.
• Experience with integration of design tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead design teams to create best-in-class product experiences.
• Craft and communicate design strategy.
• Foster a collaborative culture in design.

Skills

Customer-centered design

Design strategy

Leadership

Job description

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Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.

Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Design & Research Team creates experiences that make work feel effortless. We're problem solvers and innovators, combining research insights with thoughtful design to craft solutions that make users’ lives easier. Through iterative design and deep user research, we uncover, understand, and solve fundamental problems that impede enlightened work. We don't just make things look good—we make complex technologies feel intuitive and joyful by putting human needs at the center. If you're passionate about creating products that are equally thoughtful, powerful and delightful, join our Design & Research team. Areas of work include Research Program Management, Customer Access Programs (CAPS), User Experience Design, User Research, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, Accessibility Design, Content Design, and Prototyping.

Role Description

Dropbox’s Core team is looking for a Design Leader to lead product design teams in building best-in-class product experiences that delight our customers. This leader will shape the vision and execution of our most critical product value, from core features to future collaboration workflows. This role will be responsible for ensuring every interaction our customers have is met with an “it just works” experience. This role will also be critical in contributing to our world-class design discipline, guiding talented designers, focused on high levels of craft and quality across Dropbox. You’ll work closely with leaders across the business and shape not just our products, but our people and the way we design and build.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team in balancing urgency vs. the incredibly high quality bar expected by both our customers and the broader Dropbox organization
• Craft and communicate a compelling long-term design strategy and vision
• Lead the design process for your team - from problem definition to design implementation
• Partner closely with leadership across functions - product, engineering, research, marketing, and other cross functional teams - to ensure products are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed
• Work closely with design leadership to ensure a cohesive customer experience across all products
• Create a team of best-in-class designers who obsess over customers and move fast in a highly ambiguous environment
• Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Dropbox's values and continue to develop Dropbox as one of the best places to work
  
  

Requirements

• At least 5+ years of professional experience leading or managing a design team
• 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 customers love
• A customer-centered approach to designing products for people
• A hands-on, self starter leader, with high ownership, who can think big, but also dive-deep and straddle both altitudes while connecting the dots
• Deep experience working with product managers, engineering, and marketing to drive vision, strategy and execution
• Comfortable juggling a wide range of responsibilities at the same time
• A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with others
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing 0-1 consumer products strongly preferred
• Success leading the thoughtful integration of generative design tools, LLMs, and computational design methodologies into creative workflows while preserving team autonomy and elevating overall design quality
  
  

Compensation

Canada Pay Range

$208,300—$281,800 CAD

The range listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
• Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off policy in addition to statutory holidays, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
• Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance*
• Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance*
• Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
• Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
• Mental health and wellness benefits
  
  

Additional Benefits Details Are Available Upon Request.

• Where group plans are not available, allowances may be provided
• Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy
  
  

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, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management and Marketing

• Industries

  Software Development, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Technology, Information and Internet

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