Staff Product Designer at Dropbox

This is a high-impact leadership role for a seasoned designer who thrives on simplifying complex systems. Despite the "Mid-level" tag in the metadata, the requi

Work type: remote

Location: Remote - US: Select locations

Salary: $200,400 – $271,200/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

This is a high-impact leadership role for a seasoned designer who thrives on simplifying complex systems. Despite the "Mid-level" tag in the metadata, the requirements clarify this is an **expert-level Individual Contributor (IC)** role requesting 8–10+ years of experience. You’ll need a portfolio that proves you can navigate large-scale SaaS environments, particularly in "Teams and Collaboration" spaces where you must balance user empathy with business growth. The compensation is a major highlight, with a top-end salary of **$271,200** for Zone 2 locations. Dropbox offers a "Virtual First" remote environment, providing significant geographic flexibility within the US. This position is ideal if you enjoy high-level strategy and "sweating the craft" without the overhead of direct people management, as you’ll be partnering directly with Directors to shape the product roadmap. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Have 8+ years of experience shipping complex, elegant SaaS solutions at scale. * Feel comfortable leading through influence and storytelling rather than formal authority. * Have a background in scaling self-serve flows like onboarding, pricing, or AI-powered features. * Want to work fully remote for a company with a mature, design-forward culture.

Job Description

## Role Description

As a Staff Product Designer on Teams & Collaboration, this role will lead key strategic design initiatives with a focus on simplifying our existing Teams experiences and while creating new value that supports true collaboration on Dropbox. This role will require you to lead with vision, driving strategic initiatives that blend design excellence with customer empathy and innovation.

This role will require you to, simplify the existing customer experiences for creating and expanding Teams. Identify opportunities and create visions for how we create new value for Teams collaborating. Support excellent Product Design craft within the Teams & Collaboration design group. Collaborate with the Design, Product, and Engineering Directors to sweat the right strategic details for our customers

## Responsibilities

• Problem definition: Define high-level opportunities with the Design Director that have the potential to transform the user experience and business outcomes. Bring clarity, insight, and strategic focus to these challenges.

• Ownership: Take ownership of strategic, design-led projects, driving them from concept to delivery. Collaborate with the Design Director to identify key initiatives where your expertise can guide the team toward customer-centered, innovative outcomes.

• Execution: Work with the broader design organization to ensure that all designs are executed to the highest standards of craftsmanship and usability. Focus on simplifying complex workflows that simplify user experiences for multiple customers.

• Strategy: In close partnership with the design director, help shape and execute the broader design strategy, influencing product strategy across the team and ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Partnership: Collaborate with the Design, Product, and Engineering Directors, to align strategic design initiatives with company goals.

• 8-10+ years in a senior Individual Contributor role, with a proven track record of leading complex design initiatives with elegant solutions

• A portfolio showcasing significant contributions to shipping customer experiences that have made a measurable impact on business and customer metrics.

• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with various stakeholder groups, including engineering, product management, and leadership, influencing design strategy and ensuring successful execution.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence key stakeholders. Strong storytelling skills to present and advocate for design decisions.

• Proven ability to lead design efforts in remote or distributed team environments, driving collaboration across time zones and organizational silos.

• Proven ability to scale onboarding, freemium, or pricing flows in self-serve SaaS environments.

• Background working with AI-powered tools or interfaces preferred.

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$200,400—$271,200 USD

US Zone 3
$178,200—$241,000 USD

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