Dropbox
Dropbox

Staff Product Manager

$212,700 – $287,700 per year

TLDR

Define and execute the product vision and roadmap for project context experiences within Dropbox, while translating complex technical tradeoffs into user-friendly product decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Stacks and project context experiences within Dropbox.
  • Clarify the relationship between folders, Stacks, Spaces, projects, Home, AI/chat experiences, and collaborative workflows to create a cohesive user mental model.
  • Build intelligent project context experiences that bring together Dropbox content, third-party references, comments, tasks, activity, status, versions, and AI-generated summaries in trusted workspaces.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Search, Connectors, Sharing, Platform, and AI teams to deliver scalable and intuitive user experiences.
  • Define onboarding flows, naming systems, promotion paths, and interaction patterns that help users understand when and why to use Stacks.
  • Establish product quality bars, experimentation frameworks, learning goals, and success metrics for early design partner programs and broader rollout strategies.
  • Translate complex technical tradeoffs around retrieval, permissions, freshness, connector reliability, and model behavior into clear product decisions that maintain user trust and simplicity.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of product management experience building and shipping high-impact user-facing products.
  • Deep experience with conceptual model thinking and a knack for making the complex seem simple.
  • Strong technical depth with the ability to reason about AI/LLM systems, retrieval quality, search relevance, permissions, platform constraints, and distributed product architectures.
  • Demonstrated success building products that balance UX simplicity with underlying technical complexity.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data Science, AI/ML, and Platform teams to define ambiguous product areas and drive execution.
  • Strong product instincts around trust, precision, recall, freshness, citations, source boundaries, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building AI-powered productivity, search, collaboration, or workspace products.
  • Familiarity with retrieval systems, connectors, recommendation systems, or context-aware AI experiences.
  • Experience working on products involving permissions models, shared workspaces, or enterprise collaboration systems.
  • Strong understanding of modern knowledge work workflows across creative, client-service, media, construction, or project-based teams.
  • Experience leading 0→1 product initiatives in ambiguous or emerging product categories.

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$212,700$287,700 USD
US Zone 3
$189,000$255,800 USD

Dropbox builds innovative tools for file syncing, sharing, and collaboration aimed at both individuals and businesses. With a vast user base, it enables seamless remote work, enhancing productivity through an intuitive interface and powerful cloud storage solutions. What sets Dropbox apart is its commitment to creating a flexible work environment while advancing an AI-first strategy.

Founded
Founded 2007
Employees
500+ employees
Industry
Internet Software & Services
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