Dropbox
Director, Product Design
Remote - US: Select locations · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago
Design SystemsAccessibilityProduct StrategyResearchLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- This is a critical leadership role for Dropbox's multi product future.
Responsibilities
- Lead Design Systems and Design Technology as a center of excellence for front end product quality, interaction patterns, accessibility, implementation standards, and cross product experience coherence.
- Build and evolve reusable product patterns that drive core Dropbox experiences, including navigation, creation flows, sharing, permissions, collaboration, onboarding, search, content activation, notifications, settings, admin workflows, and AI assisted experiences.
- Own the full lifecycle of shared patterns and components, including discovery, definition, design, prototyping, engineering partnership, adoption, measurement, maintenance, governance, and deprecation.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Brand, Marketing, and Design leadership to align on the highest impact horizontal opportunities and ensure shared systems directly support product strategy.
- Raise the craft and quality bar across Dropbox by improving interaction design, visual quality, information architecture, accessibility, motion, content patterns, implementation fidelity, and front end consistency.
- Create an operating model that makes adoption desirable rather than mandated, ensuring product teams see the system as a way to move faster, build better, and reduce duplicated effort.
- Lead and develop a team of designers, design technologists, and systems specialists, creating clear ownership, strong critique practices, high standards, and a culture of pragmatic systems thinking.
- Partner with engineering leadership to improve the relationship between design systems, code, product infrastructure, and front end delivery, ensuring that design intent is translated into high quality implementation.
- Help Dropbox prepare for AI native product experiences by defining systems that can encode design knowledge, guide product decisions, and support more adaptive, contextual, and intelligent experiences over time.
- Dropbox's Design team is looking for a Director of Product Design to define the next generation of product experiences and infrastructure for Dropbox.
Requirements
- Strong product judgment and the ability to connect systems work directly to customer value, product strategy, execution speed, and business impact.
- Exceptional systems thinking, with the ability to see patterns across teams, products, platforms, and workflows, then turn those patterns into reusable experience infrastructure.
- Experience defining governance models, contribution models, quality standards, documentation practices, and lifecycle processes for shared product systems.
Benefits
- In this role, you will lead the vision, strategy, and execution for the systems, patterns, and operating model that shape how Dropbox builds coherent, high quality, multi product experiences at scale.
- Define and drive the vision for Dropbox's next generation design system, expanding it from a component library into a broader product experience platform for patterns, primitives, standards, and shared product logic.
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