Staff Product Designer
Dropbox Virtual First Company Hiring in Specific Canadian Provinces
Company Description
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Team Description
Our Research & Design team crafts delightful experiences that make people's lives easier. We're a close-knit, collaborative group, guided by a highly iterative user-centered design process. Combining research, data, and thoughtful critique, we're discovering needs and solving fundamental problems that impact work and life for millions of people around the world.
Role Description
Our Design team crafts delightful experiences that make people's lives easier. We're a close-knit, collaborative group, guided by a highly iterative user-centered design process. Combining research, data, and thoughtful critique, we're discovering needs and solving fundamental problems that impact work and life for millions of people around the world.
The Design Systems team delivers systems that support product teams in bringing consistently high quality visual and interaction design to all products. We are a centralized, horizontal team that serves all designers and engineers who work on customer-facing Dropbox products. Our mission is to make it fast and easy for Dropboxers to build UI that is coherent, on brand, and high quality.
As a Staff Product Designer focused on Design Systems, you’ll play a key role in the architecture and evolution of DIG (Dropbox Interface Guidelines), and all design systems practices within Dropbox.
Your role will be threefold:
- Drive the architecture and evolution of Dropbox’s design system (DIG), maturing it toward a “system of systems” that supports Dropbox’s multi-product strategy. Articulate maturity models, future visions, and tradeoffs for how DIG and systems practices will grow and change over time to meet the needs of the business.
- Strengthen design system foundations by prioritizing, delivering, and growing adoption for the right patterns and components. Use a mix of data and your own experience to form a strong opinion about what is most valuable to focus on, and see it through execution.
- Evolve design systems operations, education, and metrics to better support internal customers. Bring a spirit of innovation and continuous improvement to all Design Systems practices.
Responsibilities
Systems Strategy & Execution:
- Work closely with managers and Engineering partners to bring systems strategies to life, and build high-quality UI foundations that enable designers and engineers across the company to efficiently deliver great products.
- Deliver strategic narratives, components, patterns, documentation, guidelines, and training.
Craft & Talent:
- Show up as an experienced role model, setting a high craft bar for systems and visual design.
- Share your experience and excellence through leading by example in your design work, directly mentoring other designers, and creating and leveraging venues to share knowledge with the entire Design team.
Collaboration & Communication:
- Work proactively as a trusted partner with Engineers, Product Designers, Content Designers, Brand Designers, Researchers, Product Managers, Program Managers, and leaders at all levels.
- Through relationships and observations, discover opportunities for design patterns across the company. Hold crucial conversations with teams to influence systems adoption.
Requirements
- 8-10+ years experience in a senior Individual Contributor design role.
- 2+ years of experience in a design systems role.
- Experience building products in a remote or distributed team environment.
- Demonstrated portfolio of leading or contributing to systems that have made an impact on business and customer metrics.
- Expertise in Figma.
Preferred Qualifications
- Exceptional interaction design skills, including prototyping. Direct experience with engineering and some ability to understand and work directly in code.
- Advanced to expert visual design skills (typography, color, hierarchy).
- Experience with accessibility standards.
- Engaging storyteller with excellent written and verbal communication. Proven ability to hold conversations on design with executives and external industry leaders.
Total Rewards
Canada Pay Range
$166,200—$224,800 CAD
The range listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Benefits
Dropbox 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
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off policy in addition to statutory holidays, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
- Business Travel Protection: Travel medical and accident insurance
- 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
- Mental health and wellness benefits
- Additional benefits details are available upon request.
