Group Product Manager, New Frontiers - Location Flexible

Job Description

Company Description

Dropbox is now a Virtual First company, which means work outside of an office will be the primary experience for all employees. Being Virtual First also means the location of our employees is targeted but flexible. If “Location Flexible” is listed in the job title of a role, the role can be located in any of the states where Dropbox is authorized to do business.** Some roles (including those which do not have “Location Flexible” in the job title), however, may have to be co-located with their teams in certain locations. Please work with your recruiter and your hiring manager to understand any location constraints of a particular role and to communicate your location preferences. **Dropbox is authorized to do business in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Dropbox is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Please speak with your recruiter to learn more about where Dropbox is registered.
Dropbox is one place to keep life organized and keep work moving. With more than 600 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. For more information on our mission and products, visit dropbox.com.

Team Description

Our Product team advocates for our users and our business, setting the vision for our growing family of products. We use data, research, strategy, and empathy to guide multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal, balancing diverse perspectives and empowering our teams to do great work. As we scale globally, there’s plenty of space for you to grow alongside us and simplify life for millions of people around the world in team that always focuses on we, not I, and creates delightful products that are worthy of trust.

Role Description

This role offers an exciting opportunity to build innovative new products at Dropbox in a startup-like environment. As a Group Product Manager in the New Frontiers group, you will be responsible for setting direction and driving major strategic and product initiatives that explore and validate new markets for Dropbox. 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, Analysts, Product Managers, and leaders from across functions to drive innovation across the company.

Responsibilities

• You will engage with senior leaders in the organization and then set direction for the Product Frontiers team to turn Dropbox’s market insights into a prioritized roadmap of exploratory initiatives
• You will be hands-on with new product development within New Frontiers (working alongside designers and engineers) to define customers, gather use cases, build functionality, drive test adoption, and synthesize meaningful insights
• You will advance Dropbox’s aggregate product strategy by ensuring that learnings and outcomes from the team’s roadmap continually validate (or invalidate) broadly held beliefs
• You will make difficult decisions to push or prune project bets across a wide portfolio, based on shifts in your team’s priorities due to evolving strategy
• You will coach, manage, and lead a diverse and senior team of Product Managers that work on complementary early-stage bets that together represent the future of Dropbox
• You will be a guiding light and stabilizing force for the team at a time of great excitement, broad change, and high ambiguity.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management and people management experience, ideally at 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
• Highly proficient with data analysis and leveraging qualitative and quantitative information to set direction
• 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

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, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).

Benefits and Perks

• Generous company contribution toward individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
• 401k + company match
• Market competitive total compensation package
• Free Dropbox space for your friends and family
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Generous vacation policy
• 10 company paid holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Company sponsored tech talks (technology and other relevant professional topics)