Product Designer, New Initiatives

Role Description

Design has always been a fundamental part of why our customers have loved Dropbox. As a design organization, we want to create magical experiences for our customers and make Dropbox “just work.” Our mission is to simplify our user experience and help customers discover meaningful value through our various offerings. We are building toward a multi-product future where users can easily discover, try and buy new products - this role will be critical to enabling us to make that a reality. As a Product Designer at Dropbox, this role will lead key strategic design and company initiatives with a focus on creating coherent experiences across our products.

Responsibilities

• Problem Opportunity & Framing; Proactively discover company level opportunities whose justifications are extremely challenging and help bring clarity and insight to these problems. 
• Ownership; Of specific design-led projects that you proactively seek out. As well as working with the VP Design to identify programs of work where your direction and expertise are needed to guide the work to a successful customer focussed outcome.  
• Execution; Work across the entire design organization to ensure that the quality of craft execution and our design practices are to the high standards that our business and customers expect. 
• Strategy; In close partnership with the VP Design and Design Leadership Team, help to execute and inform the ongoing evolution of the Design strategy and influence the Product strategies across our company.   
• Impact; You are able to develop innovative patterns and systems that are durable, repeatable and set a new standard for interaction for the company.
• Key partners; Design Leadership Team, Extended Design Leadership Team, GMs, President

Requirements

• 8-10+ years experience in a senior Individual Contributor role. 
• Experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment.  
• Exceptional interaction and visual design skills. 
• Demonstrated portfolio of shipping amazing customer experiences that have made a significant impact on business and customer metrics.   
• Deep organization and execution capabilities, especially in areas of influence and collaboration with multiple stakeholder groups
• Excellent written/verbal communication - an engaging storyteller. Proven ability to hold conversations on design with Staff and external industry leaders.
• Experience in design thinking methodologies to lead teams toward customer centered outcomes 

Preferred Qualifications

• Craft in Interaction Design - UX Problem Solving: Defines highly durable, industry standard ux solutions; Systems Thinking: Develops innovative patterns that set a new standard for interaction for the company and industry; Attention to Detail: Details are comprehensively considered, exceptionally polished, and expertly calibrated for utility, aesthetic, and delight.
• Problem & Opportunity Framing > Clarification. Brings clarity and insight to company level problems problems that are highly ambiguous by integrating novel user, business, and technical constraints into a compelling narrative.
• Culture > Collaboration. I help break down silos within and across functions and influence others to reach the best outcome for Dropbox