Staff Product Designer
DropboxCloud Storage company
Canada$178,500 - $241,500 CADLead
Y Combinator
Sequoia Capital
Accel
Index Ventures
Greylock Partners
Benchmark Capital
Design
About the role
TL;DR
Lead highly visible design initiatives focused on AI, blending design excellence with customer empathy and innovation.
- •Role Description As a Staff Product Designer on Bridge, you will lead multiple highly-visible design initiatives that deliver against Dropbox’s strategic bets around AI.
- •This role will require you to lead with vision, driving strategic initiatives that blend design excellence with customer empathy and innovation.
- •You will also help shape our team’s culture, personally role modeling excellence across strategy, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and storytelling.
- •Responsibilities Problem definition: Define high-level opportunities 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.
- •Advocate and 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: Help shape and execute the broader design strategy, influencing product strategy across the team and ensuring alignment with business goals.
- •Collaborate with Design, Product, and Engineering Leadership to align strategic design initiatives with company goals.
- •Requirements 10-15+ years in a senior Individual Contributor role, with a proven track record of leading complex design initiatives with simple and 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.
- •Familiarity leveraging generative AI for exploration and prototyping.
- •Preferred Qualifications Proven ability to lead design efforts in remote or distributed team environments, driving collaboration across time zones and organizational silos.
- •Leadership driving company-wide initiatives to up-level design quality (ex: teaching prototyping classes or mentoring other designers).
- •Durable Skills AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it.
- •We believe people with these skills will thrive as work and technology continue to evolve: Awareness: Understand yourself and others.
- •Judgment: Evaluate information and make decisions in complex situations.
- •Adaptability: Learn, adjust, and stay effective through change.
- •Connection: Communicate, collaborate, and build trust.
- •To learn more about why these skills matter and what the data shows about thriving through change, read this blog post from our Chief People Officer, Melanie Rosenwasser.
- •Compensation Canada Pay Range $178,500-$241,500 CAD
Required skills
FigmaPrototypingUX DesignVisual DesignInteraction Design
Nice-to-have skills
Design SystemsUser Research
Tech stack
FigmaPrototyping