Staff Product Manager

PLEASE READ: Zones are based on your zip code. If you’re within 100 miles of a listed metro area (straight-line radius), you’re included in that Zone. For this role, we are hiring in Zones 2 and 3. Check your Zone here before applying.

Company Description

Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working. We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the autonomy of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself— Dropbox is ready for you.

Team Description

The Dropbox Product Management Team envisions and builds the future of work while growing our business, one product at a time. We're strategic thinkers and advocates for our users, crafting solutions that make work more intuitive and joyful. Using data, research, and strategy—and a healthy dose of empathy—we guide cross-functional teams toward the shared goal of creating transformative products that people love to use. If you're passionate about building solutions that reshape how the world works while delighting users in the process, join our Product Management team. Areas of work include Product Management, Product Strategy, User Research, Data Analytics, Product Operations, Growth Strategy, and Go-to-Market Planning.

Role Description

As a Staff Product Manager focused on Sharing and Virality, you will lead Dropbox’s strategy and execution for one of the most critical and widely used user journeys in the product.

In this role, you will be responsible for defining and driving the strategy and roadmap for sharing across web, mobile, and desktop surfaces. Your impact areas include simplifying complex sharing flows, balancing intuitive default experiences with advanced capabilities, planning and forecasting multi-quarter initiatives, measuring the effectiveness of sharing and virality through rigorous metrics and experimentation, driving cross-functional execution across multiple teams, and evaluating product and business tradeoffs to deliver meaningful customer and company value.

You will play a critical part in shaping how millions of users collaborate and share content every week, while directly influencing Dropbox’s growth, retention, and revenue. You’ll get substantial senior leadership exposure, significant ownership and autonomy over a high-visibility product area, and the opportunity to solve deeply complex problems at scale while delivering experiences that users understand, trust, and love.

Responsibilities

Define and evangelize the long-term product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Dropbox’s sharing and virality experiences across web, mobile, and desktop.
Own the end-to-end sharing experience, including sharing UX, access management, and receiver experiences, spanning both frontend and backend systems.
Simplify complex sharing flows, striking the right balance between intuitive default experiences and advanced capabilities for power users.
Partner closely with engineering, design, data science, research, and cross-product leaders to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
Make high-impact, independent product decisions while aligning closely with senior leadership and executives on critical tradeoffs.
Communicate clearly and persuasively with stakeholders, including presenting defensible product perspectives to the executive team.

Requirements

8–10+ years of experience as a Product Manager, with ownership of complex, user-facing systems at scale.
Strong systems thinking and technical proficiency, with the ability to work closely with engineering teams on complex architectures.
Deep experience using data, metrics, and experimentation to inform product decisions and drive outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to lead large cross-functional teams and to set strategy across organizational boundaries.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level storytelling and alignment.
Strong customer focus, with a track record of delivering simple, intuitive experiences in complex domains.

Preferred Qualifications

Prior experience working on sharing, permissions, access control.
Experience designing and optimizing virality loops or network effects in large-scale products.
Background in trust & safety or permissions-heavy domains.
Track record of leading long-running, multi-quarter initiatives with significant cross-team dependencies.

Compensation

US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$206,600—$279,500 USD

US Zone 3
$183,600—$248,400 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 takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.

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: California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Illinois (Chicago metro), Indiana (Chicago metro), Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan (Chicago metro), New Hampshire, New Jersey (outside NYC metro), New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (D.C. metro), Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Texas (Austin metro) Virginia (DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro), Washington DC metro, West Virginia (DC metro), Wisconsin (Chicago 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
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 and groceries, and much more
Parental benefits including: Parental Leave, Child and Adult Care, Day Care FSA, Fertility Benefits, Adoption and Surrogacy Support, and Lactation Support
Access to over 10,000 global co-working spaces through Gable.tomaking it easy to book flexible workspaces for collaboration or individual work
Quarterly Cell phone and internet allowance
Mental health and wellness benefits
Disability and neurodivergence support benefits

Additional benefit details are available upon request.

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Dropbox 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, enABLE, TODOS (Latinx), Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, and Women at Dropbox.
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