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.
Role Description
As a Staff Product Designer working on Dash, you will be at the forefront of reimagining design for the next generation of AI-powered products. You will help define the future of our AI experiences, collaborating across teams to integrate cutting-edge technologies that make our product even more intuitive, intelligent, and powerful.
Responsibilities
- Drive impact and take initiative and deliver high-quality work that creates meaningful value for customers
- Champion customer needs and deeply understand Dash customers, validate solutions through research and testing, and ensure designs address real user problems.
- Design intuitive interactions, create flexible, scalable interaction systems. Anticipate edge cases and design seamless, multi-step, cross-platform experiences.
- Craft thoughtful visuals and apply strong visual design principles—including layout, color, typography, and hierarchy—to produce clean, effective interfaces.
- Explore and iterate, taking a methodical approach to solution exploration—testing concepts at various levels of fidelity. Generate a wide range of ideas informed by user input, data, and business needs.
- Align with product strategy to understand our business model and how the product strategy supports it. Design solutions that align with strategic goals and are grounded in customer insight and data.
- Make smart decisions and engage the right stakeholders, incorporate customer perspectives, and make timely, well-informed decisions that move work forward.
- Communicate with clarity, communicate ideas clearly in both writing and speech to build shared understanding and support effective decisions. Keep stakeholders informed and aligned by proactively sharing context and raising issues early.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in product design
- Exceptional craft and attention to detail in visual design, interaction design, and prototyping.
- Proficiency with prototyping tools to showcase complex features and web flows.
- Experience using and contributing to design systems.
- Proven track record of launching and iterating on products with a focus on business and customer impact.
- Strong customer obsession with extensive experience leveraging UX research for foundational insights and iterative design.
- Excellent collaboration skills with cross-functional partners, including designers, researchers, PMs, data scientists, and engineers.
- Experience spanning the full product lifecycle, from discovery to launch and iteration.
- Ability to measure impact through both quantitative metrics and qualitative insights.
- Ownership mindset with a proactive approach to driving projects and teams forward.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with 0-1 product initiatives
- Experience with AI
- Experience in growth design
- Experience in Enterprise products
Compensation
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$192,800—$260,800 USD
US Zone 3
$171,400—$231,800 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: 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
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 Design & Research Team creates experiences that make work feel effortless. We're problem solvers and innovators, combining research insights with thoughtful design to craft solutions that make users’ lives easier. Through iterative design and deep user research, we uncover, understand, and solve fundamental problems that impede enlightened work. We don't just make things look good—we make complex technologies feel intuitive and joyful by putting human needs at the center. If you're passionate about creating products that are equally thoughtful, powerful and delightful, join our Design & Research team. Areas of work include Research Program Management, Customer Access Programs (CAPS), User Experience Design, User Research, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, Accessibility Design, Content Design, and Prototyping.
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.to, making 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.
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.
