Product Designer for Exploratory Projects

Company: Dropbox, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 17, 2020

Job Description:

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Dropbox is the world s first smart workspace that helps people and teams focus on the work that matters. 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 12 offices around the world.

TEAM DESCRIPTION

Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

We re looking for product designers with 0 1 experience where they ve helped a product find product/market fit and operate at scale. This role will basically act like an EIR and design advisor for moonshots projects. Some of time, you ll be expected to hop onto specific exploratory teams and help them shape their idea and product or provide guidance. Other times, you ll be expected to come up with new ideas to go after and validate them. Once you find something, your team of seasoned Product Manager's and Engineering that also have 0 1 experience, will work to see if there is product/market fit and business model fit, and eventually, work to integrate that into becoming a main-line Dropbox product.

RESPONSIBILITIES

* You will identify new opportunities in ambiguous problem spaces and markets that Dropbox should invest in

* You will work with the team to validate the problem, solution, target audience, and specific opportunity in scrappy ways

* You will work to find product/market fit, business model fit, and eventually integrate the new product into the rest of Dropbox s product portfolio

* You will refine product development processes around how to validate new opportunities to help your team and other teams at Dropbox as well

* You will guide and advise other project teams in validating their idea and finding product/market fit

REQUIREMENTS

* You re either an ex-founder or been a primary contributor to a startup that has found product market fit and helped that product scale.

* You re able to come up ambitious ideas and have experience turning them into a reality and seeing if they really work.

* You re someone that challenges the status quo and questions why things they are the way the are and why does it have to be that way.

* You re a self-starter, scrappy, and generally curious about everything.

* You re an expert in product thinking and creating simple, intuitive, and tasteful experiences that solve real user problems.

* You re a user researcher when you need to be, and able to ask the right questions about your target audience to validate your solution

* You re a great collaborator and generous with knowledge. You want to make all boats rise.

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).

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