Head of Data Science & Engineering, Finance

Dropbox, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 203,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Dropbox, Inc. is seeking a Director, Data Science & Data Engineering for Finance to lead a small, high-impact team enabling Finance to rely on trusted data, robust analytics, and AI-powered capabilities.

You will partner with Finance, Engineering, Data, and Product to transform strategic goals into durable data products, ensure production-ready pipelines, and elevate decision-making through measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Significant experience applying data science, machine learning, analytics, data engineering, or a combination of these to business problems.
• Experience directly managing and developing technical professionals, ideally including both data scientists and data engineers or closely adjacent roles.
• Experience leading a portfolio of projects from problem definition through delivery, adoption, measurement, and ongoing operation.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a data scientist and a data engineer, creating clear expectations and development plans.
• Set the team's strategy and priorities by translating Finance and company goals into a focused portfolio of work.
• Provide technical leadership across data science and data engineering, guiding problem framing, data architecture, and production readiness.
• Advance AI and modeling capabilities by applying AI, ML, automation, and analytics to Finance workflows.
• Build trusted data foundations with source-of-truth datasets, data quality, lineage, and observability.
• Own analytical and modeling outcomes that support financial planning and decision-making.
• Create scalable operating mechanisms for intake, roadmap planning, reviews, and stakeholder communication.
• Influence Finance and senior stakeholders by communicating complex data considerations clearly.

Skills

Data leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic planning

Communication

Autonomy

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or above in a quantitative discipline

Job description

Dropbox, Inc. is seeking a Director, Data Science & Data Engineering for Finance to lead a small, high-impact team enabling Finance to rely on trusted data, robust analytics, and AI-powered capabilities.

You will partner with Finance, Engineering, Data, and Product to transform strategic goals into durable data products, ensure production-ready pipelines, and elevate decision-making through measurable impact.