Director, Design

Posted 3 Days Ago
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Hiring Remotely in Seattle, WA
Remote
244K-330K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Automation • Data Privacy
Our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working. Join us!
The Role
As Director of Design at Dropbox, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams to create exceptional product experiences, especially focusing on new AI offerings. You will collaborate across various functions to establish a high-quality design discipline and guide the design process, ensuring customer-centered outcomes while fostering a healthy team culture.
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Role Description

Dropbox’s Organize the Cloud team (OTC) is looking for a Design Leader to lead multi-disciplinary teams in building best-in-class product experiences that delight our customers. As a Director of Design, you will lead design for Dropbox’s new AI offerings. This role will be responsible for ensuring every interaction our customers have is met with an “it just works” experience along with radically redesigning and reimagining the ways our customers will use Dropbox. This role will also be critical in establishing a world class design discipline and design team within OTC. You’ll work closely with leaders across the business and shape not just our products, but our people and the way we design and build.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the team in balancing urgency vs. the incredibly high quality bar expected by both our customers and the broader Dropbox organization
  • Craft and communicate a compelling long-term design strategy and vision
  • Lead the design process for your team - from problem definition to design implementation
  • Partner closely with leadership across functions - product, engineering, research, marketing, and other cross functional teams - to ensure products are well-defined, high impact, and successfully executed
  • Work closely with design leadership to ensure a cohesive customer experience across all products 
  • Create a team of best-in-class designers who obsess over customers and move fast in a highly ambiguous environment 
  • Grow the design team by attracting and hiring new talent
  • Foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Dropbox's values and continue to develop Dropbox as one of the best places to work

Requirements

  • At least 5+ years of professional experience leading or managing a design team
  • A portfolio of relevant design work, executed either by yourself or a team that you led, that conveys an ability to ship successful products that customers love
  • A customer-centered approach to designing products for people
  • A hands-on, self starter leader, with high ownership, who can think big, but also dive-deep and straddle both altitudes while connecting the dots 
  • Deep experience working with product managers, engineering, and marketing to drive vision, strategy and execution
  • Comfortable juggling a wide range of responsibilities at the same time
  • A collaborative, low-ego approach to working with others

Compensation

US Zone 1

$244,000$330,100 USD

US Zone 2

$219,600$297,000 USD

US Zone 3

$195,200$264,000 USD

What the Team is Saying

Caitlin
Latane
Drew
Mack
The Company
Seattle, WA
2,500 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

Our remote work model is a deliberate shift to provide greater flexibility, create a level-playing field, and evolve our culture to focus on people over places. Being a Virtual First company has allowed us to focus on our impact and effectiveness, by making investments in our employees according to what they need to do their best work.

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