Principal Product Designer

7 hours, 21 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Dropbox

Dropbox

Dropbox is a technology company that builds simple, powerful products for individuals and businesses. With over 700 million registered users worldwide, Dropbox offers file sync, sharing, online backup, cloud storage, collaboration tools, and more to st...

Internet Software & Services
1K-5K
Founded 2007

Description

  • Define and drive the design vision for Dropbox’s multi-product ecosystem focused on content activation.
  • Design AI-powered experiences that reduce friction, surface what matters, and keep customers in control.
  • Lead ambiguous, high-impact product areas from strategic framing through execution.
  • Translate emerging AI capabilities into simple, elegant, high-trust product experiences.
  • Set a high craft bar across interaction design, information architecture, systems thinking, prototyping, content, visual quality, and implementation.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, and Design leadership to shape strategy and prioritize opportunities.
  • Mentor designers, improve critique practices, and raise the bar for the broader design organization.
  • Help the team become more AI-enabled in how they explore, prototype, evaluate, and ship work.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of product design experience leading complex, ambiguous, high-impact initiatives from vision through launch at scale.
  • A portfolio demonstrating Principal-level craft, product judgment, systems thinking, customer empathy, and the ability to ship trusted experiences.
  • Exceptional executional range from long-term strategy and narrative to detailed flows, interaction models, prototypes, edge cases, content, and implementation quality.
  • Proven ability to influence senior cross-functional partners, create alignment through storytelling, and drive product direction in fast-moving environments.
  • Strong ability to translate emerging capabilities into simple, useful, intuitive product experiences that preserve customer agency.
  • A collaborative, low-ego leadership style with experience mentoring designers and improving team standards.
  • Experience designing end-to-end experiences across multiple products, surfaces, or platforms.
  • A deeply opinionated design sensibility with clear taste, principles, and product philosophy.
  • Ability to simplify complex systems, workflows, or mental models into premium, obvious, easy-to-use experiences.
  • Preferred: deep experience in AI, search, knowledge work, productivity, collaboration, enterprise software, or multi-product ecosystems.
  • Preferred: experience designing agentic experiences, automation, orchestration, permissions, delegation, or similarly complex product metaphors.
  • Preferred: a strong point of view on how AI can augment human judgment, activate customer content, and reduce busywork.
  • Preferred: a strong point of view on design craft in the AI era and how designers should use AI to increase creativity, speed, quality, and customer understanding.

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary of $235,600–$318,800 USD for US Zone 2.
  • Competitive base salary of $209,400–$283,400 USD for US Zone 3.
  • This role is not available in US Zone 1.

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