Dropbox

Staff Product Manager

Dropbox • $212K — $287K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in product management for user-facing products
  • Expertise in conceptual model thinking
  • Strong grasp of AI/LLM systems and technical tradeoffs
  • Proven track record of balancing UX and technical complexity
  • Cross-functional collaboration experience with various technical teams
  • Strong instincts for trust, recall, and human-in-the-loop workflows
  • Excellent strategic communication and leadership influence

Responsibilities

  • Define and execute product vision and roadmap for Stacks at Dropbox
  • Clarify user relationships between various product elements to enhance mental model
  • Build cohesive project experiences integrating content and AI-generated summaries
  • Collaborate with multiple teams to deliver intuitive user experiences
  • Establish effective onboarding flows and interaction patterns for users
  • Set product quality standards and success metrics for design initiatives
  • Translate complex technicalities into clear, trust-building product decisions

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
  • Generous paid time off and holiday policy
  • Flexible working arrangements and remote work options
  • Employee discounts and wellness programs
Full Job Description
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 01 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

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
Consumer Technology
Net Income
-$256.3 million
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+20.6%
Revenue
$1.9 billion
NASDAQ
DBX
* Ladders Estimates

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