Product Manager, New Frontiers - Location Flexible
Role Description
This role offers an exciting opportunity to build innovative new products at Dropbox in a startup-like environment.
As a Product Manager in the New Frontiers group, you will be responsible for setting direction and driving major strategic and product initiatives that explore new markets for Dropbox to invest in. You will have significant strategic impact as you collaborate with the VP of Strategy and New Frontiers to influence the development of Dropbox’s next multi-million dollar ventures, particularly around distributed work and virtual collaboration. You will engage with nimble teams to build awesome prototypes that have potential to graduate into highly impactful products. You will collaborate with world class Designers, Engineers, User Researchers, and Analysts as well as Product Managers and leaders from across functions to drive innovation across the company.
Responsibilities
- You will turn Dropbox’s venture bets strategy into a prioritized roadmap of initiatives and execute in a fast changing technical and market landscape to find product-market fit.
- You will be hands-on with product development within New Frontiers, including gathering use cases, prioritizing functionality, and driving usage and customer insights
- You will work with BizOps and Strategy to explore new market hypotheses and make investments into new product capabilities that drive outsized impact
- You will make difficult but necessary decisions while balancing New Frontiers’ portfolio of projects, including graduating products that have found product market fit, sunsetting bad ideas, and rehoming valuable concepts with teams building complementary functionality
- You will be a champion of New Frontiers’ mission and projects across the company, including collaborating with other product teams on “Innovation as a Service” type engagements
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally with productivity and work collaboration products or in a fast-paced startup environment
- Demonstrated ability to successfully design and deploy 0-to-1 features and functionality, and use rapid experimentation and validation to find product-market fit
- User-centric approach embodied in past work that meaningfully translate customer problems into solutions
- Strong influence and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to create clarity and drive focus in complex and dynamic contexts
- Demonstrated ability to drive design work alongside UX research
- Demonstrated strong project management and execution in changing business environment
- Demonstrated technical proficiency and effectiveness working closely with senior engineers