Product Design Manager, Spaces - Location Flexible
Role Description
We're hiring for a design leader to manage and lead a small, talented design team on Dropbox’s biggest new bet, Spaces. Dropbox Spaces help small businesses complete projects effectively: organize content from anywhere; track internal and client-facing progress; and communicate effortlessly with clients from the same place your team works. Spaces are currently in alpha stage, iterating towards product-market fit; you have the opportunity to help lead a large product from zero-to-one.
Responsibilities
- Manage & learn from an inspiring product design team with candor and flexibility
- Set vision & strategy with your product partner and persuasively communicate direction
- Lead design execution & allocation and orient team towards the most impactful work
- Contribute directly on high-level design, partnering with your team to define customer journeys
Requirements
- At least 3+ years of experience leading a team of designers
- Ability to build strong cross functional partnerships. This role will lead broad product areas in Spaces and must coordinate with other areas and across functions.
- Strong initiative, comfort with ambiguity, and a broad understanding of design practices and processes relevant to zero-to-one that balance predictability with dexterity
- Excellent communication and evangelization skills
- End to end journey and PMF thinking: customer, needs, value props, essential capabilities; in-product customer flows answer real-world customer journeys
- Experience growing “top of funnel” and pairing customer insights with funnel thinking
- Experience managing a team through a successful new product required