Staff Product Designer
Dropbox
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Please refer to our Compensation section below to see what neighborhoods fall under each Zone.
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.
Design Systems Team
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.
Staff Product Designer
As a Staff Product Designer focused in 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.
- Hone high quality work through detailed critique.
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.
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
- $187,400—$253,600 USD
US Zone 3
- $166,600—$225,400 USD
The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change. Please note, OTE are for sales roles only.
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).
Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:
- US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
- US Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington DC metro, and West Virginia (DC metro)
- US Zone 3: All other US locations
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
- 401(k) plan with a generous company match and immediate vesting
- Flexible PTO/Paid Time Off, paid holidays, Volunteer Time Off, and more, allowing you time to unplug, unwind, and refresh
- Income Protection Plans: Life and disability insurance
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