Dropbox

Principal Product Designer

Remote - Canada: Select locations · Principal

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 days ago

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About the role

The best experiences will feel elegant, precise, and almost invisible; AI should make Dropbox more powerful without making it feel more complicated.

Lead ambiguous, high-impact product areas from strategic framing through execution, translating emerging AI capabilities into simple, elegant, high-trust experiences that feel powerful without becoming clunky, noisy, or difficult to use.
Set an exceptionally high craft bar across interaction design, information architecture, systems thinking, prototyping, content, visual quality, and implementation. Make the product feel precise, coherent, and unmistakably Dropbox.
Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, and Design leadership to shape strategy, prioritize the highest-impact opportunities, align teams, and drive outcomes with urgency and quality.
Raise the bar for the design organization by mentoring designers, improving critique, modeling excellent AI product design, and helping the team become more AI-enabled in how they explore, prototype, evaluate, and ship work.
Dropbox's Design team is looking for a Principal Designer to help define the future of content activation for Dropbox customers.

Exceptional executional range, with the ability to move fluidly from long-term strategy and narrative to detailed flows, interaction models, prototypes, edge cases, content, and implementation quality.
Strong ability to translate emerging capabilities into simple, useful, intuitive product experiences that reduce friction, preserve customer agency, and help people get meaningful work done.
A demonstrated ability to simplify complex systems, workflows, or mental models into experiences that feel premium, obvious, and easy to use.
This role requires a designer with exceptional craft, strong product judgment, and the ability to operate across strategy, systems, and execution.

Deep experience designing customer-facing products in emerging or complex domains such as AI, search, knowledge work, productivity, collaboration, enterprise software, or multi-product ecosystems.
Experience designing or simplifying agentic experiences, agent management, automation, orchestration, permissions, delegation, or similarly complex product metaphors where users need clarity, control, and trust.
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:
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Durable Skills AI fluency means using these tools to amplify human judgment, not replace it.

In this role, you will help lead the design vision and execution for Dropbox's portfolio of products and services.
Define and drive the design vision for Dropbox's broader multi-product ecosystem that helps customers find, understand, activate, and act on the content already living in Dropbox.

Design AI-powered experiences that make customers sharper and more effective without replacing their judgment. Ensure AI feels like a trusted partner: reducing friction, surfacing what matters, accelerating decisions, and keeping customers in control.
Design AI-powered experiences that make customers sharper and more effective without replacing their judgment.
As a Principal Designer, you will shape how AI helps customers get their jobs done faster, better, and with greater confidence.
Dropbox holds the content, context, and collaboration that power our customers' most important work.
This role is about designing AI experiences that activate that content in useful, intuitive, and trustworthy ways, helping customers find clarity, make progress, and take action without adding complexity or friction.
We believe AI should sharpen our customers, not replace their judgment.

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