Dropbox

Corporate and Business Communications Lead

Dropbox$178K — $241K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in communications, public relations, corporate affairs, or related fields.
  • Strong background in corporate and B2B communications, ideally in tech or SaaS.
  • Proven experience creating strategies that enhance corporate reputation.
  • Successful record of securing media coverage in key outlets.
  • Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling capabilities.
  • Expertise in preparing executives for media and public engagements.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration with various departments.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement corporate communication strategies to enhance reputation.
  • Craft messaging related to company strategy, performance, and AI innovations.
  • Support major corporate moments like earnings announcements and partnerships.
  • Collaborate with legal teams on customer communications regarding security issues.
  • Coordinate with various teams to ensure accurate and aligned messaging externally.
  • Manage crisis communications with sound judgment and speed.
  • Create narratives tailored for CIOs and other enterprise decision-makers.

Benefits

  • Collaborative work culture with cross-functional teams.
  • Opportunities for professional mentorship and growth within the communications team.
  • Engagement in high-stakes corporate storytelling and visibility projects.
  • Ability to influence enterprise messaging related to AI and productivity.
  • Access to a network of top-tier media and industry analysts.
Full Job Description
Role Description

Dropbox is seeking a strategic, business-minded communications leader to help shape and scale the company's corporate and B2B/enterprise communications. This person will lead programs that strengthen Dropbox's corporate reputation, elevate its enterprise narrative, and drive awareness of Dropbox's evolution as an AI-powered platform for modern work.

This role will sit at the center of company storytelling, partnering closely with executive leadership, product, marketing, sales, investor relations, legal, policy, and customer teams.

The ideal candidate can move fluidly between corporate reputation, earnings support, enterprise product storytelling, executive thought leadership, customer communications, media strategy, and issues management.

You should be equally comfortable developing a long-term narrative, preparing an executive for a high-stakes interview, landing a business or enterprise technology story, and translating product strategy into clear messaging for CIOs, IT leaders, customers, employees, and the market.
Responsibilities

Lead corporate communications:
  • Develop and execute communications strategies that strengthen Dropbox's reputation with business, technology, financial, and enterprise audiences.
  • Shape messaging around Dropbox's company strategy, business performance, AI direction, product innovation, customer value, and long-term market opportunity.
  • Support corporate moments including earnings, business updates, leadership announcements, strategic partnerships, customer milestones, and company-wide initiatives.
  • Partner with Security and Legal teams on reactive and proactive customer communications around data and security incidents.
  • Partner with Investor Relations, Legal, Finance, and executive leadership to ensure external communications are accurate, aligned, and market-aware.
  • Partner with Policy and Legal teams on issues management, social impact, policy and legal comms matters.
  • Help manage issues and crisis communications with sound judgment, speed, and discretion.

Own B2B and enterprise communications:
  • Build and lead communications programs that support Dropbox's enterprise and B2B priorities across the business.
  • Create narratives that speak to CIOs, IT leaders, business decision-makers, and knowledge workers around productivity, collaboration, security, AI, knowledge management, and the future of work.
  • In partnership with Product Comms, drive media strategy for enterprise product launches, customer stories, industry moments, partnerships, research, and thought leadership campaigns.
  • Partner with product marketing, sales, customer success, and product teams to surface and amplify compelling enterprise customer stories.
  • Develop messaging that connects Dropbox's core file sync and sharing foundation with newer AI-powered workflows and enterprise use cases.

Drive executive visibility and thought leadership:
  • Advise senior executives and spokespeople on messaging, positioning, media strategy, and external visibility.
  • Create executive briefing materials, Q&As, talking points, messaging frameworks, op-eds, bylines, and keynote narratives.
  • Identify and secure high-value opportunities across business media, enterprise technology media, podcasts, conferences, analyst conversations, and industry events.
  • Position Dropbox leaders as credible voices on AI, distributed work, productivity, enterprise software, knowledge management, and the future of work.

Build media and analyst relations relationships:
  • Develop and maintain relationships with top-tier business, technology, enterprise software, AI, productivity, workplace, and financial media.
  • Partner with analyst relations, marketing, and product teams to ensure consistent positioning with key external influencers.
  • Translate complex product and business updates into stories that reporters, analysts, customers, and broader audiences can understand and care about.

Work cross-functionally:
  • Collaborate with internal communications, product communications, brand, social, content, marketing, sales, legal, finance, policy, and people teams.
  • Manage agency partners and external consultants where relevant.
  • Mentor communications team members and contribute to a high-performing, collaborative communications culture.
Requirements
  • 10+ years of experience in communications, public relations, corporate affairs, or related fields.
  • Strong experience in corporate communications and/or B2B communications, ideally in technology, SaaS, AI, enterprise software, cloud, productivity, or collaboration categories.
  • Proven ability to develop communications strategies that support business objectives and strengthen corporate reputation.
  • Track record of driving high-quality earned media coverage across business, technology, and enterprise outlets.
  • Excellent writing, editing, messaging, and storytelling skills.
  • Experience advising executives and preparing senior leaders for media interviews, speaking opportunities, and sensitive external moments.
  • Strong news judgment and ability to operate in fast-moving, ambiguous, high-visibility situations.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with product, marketing, legal, finance, sales, and executive teams.
  • Sound judgment in issues management and sensitive communications.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience supporting public company communications, including earnings or financial communications.
  • Experience with AI, enterprise search, knowledge management, collaboration software, or productivity tools.
  • Familiarity with enterprise buyer audiences, including CIOs, CISOs, IT leaders, and business decision-makers.
  • Experience managing agency partners or direct reports.
  • Experience building executive thought leadership platforms from the ground up.
  • Strong understanding of both corporate reputation and product-led storytelling
Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$178,200-$241,200 USD

US Zone 3

$158,400-$214,400 USD

About Dropbox

Dropbox is a publicly traded cloud storage and file sharing services company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2007, Dropbox provides cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. The company's cloud storage allows users to store and share files, photos, and videos. Dropbox has over 700 million registered users across 180 countries. The company has additional offices in New York City, Dublin, London, Paris, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Learn more about Dropbox
Size
2,667 employees
Market Cap
$8 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$256.3 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+20.6%
Revenue
$1.9 billion
NASDAQ

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