Staff Product Designer
Dropbox
- Canada
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and other cross-functional partners in and outside of the Platform team to build high quality foundational experiences that are coherent across Dropbox's product offerings.
- Identify and drive initiatives that have high value to our business and our customers.
- Ensure excellent Product Design craft in your own work and across the organization, working with our talented Design Directors, Product Designers, Brand Leads, Research Leads and Content Designers to highlight and focus us down on sweating the right details for our customers.
- Problem Opportunity & Framing; Proactively discover line of business or product line level opportunities whose justifications are extremely challenging. Bring clarity and insight to problems that are highly ambiguous by integrating novel user, business, and technical constraints into a compelling narrative.
- Ownership; of initiatives and projects that you proactively define, with the partnership and support of Design Leadership Team and Platform leadership. When you encounter barriers, you unblock the team by assessing and eliminating the root cause, including recommending process and scale improvements.
- 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; Create strategic vision work and influence strategic action for entire product line or business units. Create plans that are coherent, persuasive, and leveraged to instill broad alignment and action.
- Interaction Design; Define highly durable, company standard UX solutions for challenging problems. You are able to develop innovative patterns that set a new standard for interaction across a line of business or product suite.
- Collaboration; Help break down silos within and across functions and influence others to reach the best outcome for Dropbox. Engage in productive conflict with thoughtful questioning and have the courage to state your point of view.
- Key partners; Design Leadership Team, Extended Design Leadership Team, Platform team leadership & cross-functional collaborators
- 8-10+ years experience in a senior Individual Contributor role.
- Experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment.
- Demonstrated portfolio of shipping amazing customer experiences that have made a significant impact on business and customer metrics.
- Exceptional interaction design skills, including prototyping and systems design.
- 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 executives and external industry leaders.
- Experience in design thinking methodologies to lead teams toward customer centered outcomes
C$166,200 - C$195,500 - C$224,800BenefitsDropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:
- Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*
- Retirement Savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
- Dropbox provides a Flexible PTO Policy in addition to your statutory holidays allowing you to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Dropbox also provides exclusive additional paid time off for all FTE employees across the Globe, in addition to any relevant statutory holidays
- Protection Plans including Life and Disability Insurance*
- A Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that's wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
- Parental benefits including; Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
**Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policyDropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).