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Role Description
As a Product Designer Manager for the Files area you’ll work with cross-functional partners to create the strategy, vision, and plan of action for the best web-based experiences for Dropbox customers. The Files team own fundamental experiences used by millions of people around the world, including our file browser, end-to-end upload experience, and content previewer.
As a design leader you’ll be a champion for innovative and impactful approaches to solve the most important problems for our customers. You’ll be a steward of operational excellence, holding your teams accountable to ambitious goals and developing processes to achieve efficient but impactful outcomes along with a well-loved culture. You’ll lead a team of 4-5 product designers not only by means of their product work, you’ll also be a coach and mentor in their career development and a culture and community builder. You’ll be a driver in maintaining a high craft bar within our web experiences to ensure continued improvement in product quality.
Responsibilities
- Set vision & strategy with your product partner and persuasively communicate direction
- Guide your teams through focused work that lead to both customer and business results
- Make clear and timely decisions that unblock your teams and partners
- Manage a motivated and skilled product design team with humility, candor, and flexibility
- Hold high standards of quality and work with partner organizations and teams to design cohesive customer experiences
- Be dedicated to your team’s progress by investing in skill development, culture, and community
Requirements
- 2+ year experience leading a team of designers as a manager
- Ability to effectively guide teams through a range of experiments to big swings
- Strong design craft (while this isn’t a practicing IC role, it’s important that you’ll be able to lead your team to quality execution and coach on skill development)
- Customer-focused mindset with critical business evaluation skills
- History of building strong cross functional partnerships
- Demonstrated experience working on projects from discovery through shipping/iteration.
- Clear, compelling presentation and communication style
- Culture builder with excitement around building trusting and collaborative environments
Questions & answers for this job
- What is the type of contract for this job?The contract for this job is a Full-time contract
- What's the salary range for the Product Design Manager, Files Area position?The suggested salary for this job is $152,100 - $222,700*
- Is telecommuting possible for this job?Yes, telecommuting is possible for this job
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