Staff Product Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.
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 Canada Pay Range
$191,300—$258,700 CAD
The range listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.
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).
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*
- Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
- 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, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Additional Benefits Details Are Available Upon Request.
- Where group plans are not available, allowances may be provided
- Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy
Dropbox supports responsible use of AI for preparation, but misrepresentation of skills or experience is not permitted. See our AI philosophy.
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.
About Dropbox
Dropbox is the one place to keep life organized and keep work moving. With more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, we're on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and has offices around the world.
To learn more about working at Dropbox, visit dropbox.com/jobs
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Staff Product Manager
Top Benefits
About the role
Dropbox is a Virtual First company. For this role, we are currently only authorized to hire candidates from the following provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.
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 Canada Pay Range
$191,300—$258,700 CAD
The range listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE for this role, subject to change.
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).
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*
- Retirement savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
- 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, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support
- Mental health and wellness benefits
Additional Benefits Details Are Available Upon Request.
- Where group plans are not available, allowances may be provided
- Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy
Dropbox supports responsible use of AI for preparation, but misrepresentation of skills or experience is not permitted. See our AI philosophy.
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.
About Dropbox
Dropbox is the one place to keep life organized and keep work moving. With more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, we're on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working. Dropbox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and has offices around the world.
To learn more about working at Dropbox, visit dropbox.com/jobs
We also have a few simple guidelines to keep this space respectful and productive. Please avoid:
- Harassing other people or using language that’s hateful, offensive, vulgar, or advocates violence
- Trolling, fraud and spamming
- Violating someone else’s rights or privacy
- Advertising or soliciting donations
- Link baiting
- Posting off topic comments or thread hijacking
We may remove comments that violate these guidelines.