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Product Design Manager, Teams job at Dropbox

Role Description

We are looking for a Product Designer Manager to lead our design team focused on multiplayer customer problems. We’re looking for someone to drive the design contribution to our multiplayer products and manage and develop a powerful team of powerful designers.

As a Product Designer Manager and Area Lead you’ll work with cross-functional partners to create the strategy, vision, and plan of action for the best experiences for Dropbox customers. This role covers multiplayer experiences like sharing, collaborating on content, managing membership and bringing real work-life relationships into Dropbox.

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 3 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 products to ensure continued improvement in product quality.

As a virtual first company, you can work from home and leverage our studios for in-person work. You’ll be able to design your own non-linear working day outside of core collaboration hours, as well as be empowered to experiment with new virtual first processes.

Veterans encouraged to apply!

Responsibilities

Establish and contribute to the short and long term vision for your team.
Develop the design strategy to execute on your product roadmap.
Manage a motivated and skilled product design team with humility, candor, and flexibility.
Establish and manage your team’s cadences and processes.
Focus on, and support, your team’s development both as individuals and as a collective by investing in skill development, culture, and community.
Make timely decisions that unblock your teams and partners.
Hold high standards for the quality of design work.