Staff Product Designer, New Initiatives

Dropbox Dropbox · Enterprise · Canada +1 · New Initiatives Pods (Sub Team)

Staff Product Designer to lead design for CompanyOS, an AI-native operating system for work, partnering with OCEO, product, and engineering to turn ambiguous problems into clear, intuitive workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, OCEO (Office of the CEO), engineering, and product, to define and drive the user experience and interface of CompanyOS.
  2. Develop and iterate on wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to communicate design ideas, and user flows effectively.
  3. Conduct user research and usability testing to gather insights and inform design decisions.
  4. Translate complex technical concepts and requirements into intuitive, accessible, and engaging user experiences.
  5. Push design quality with Dropbox design systems and collaborate with engineering to ship quality experiences.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience in product design
  • Exceptional craft and attention to detail in visual design, interaction design, and prototyping
  • Proficiency with prototyping tools to showcase complex features and web flows
  • Strong customer obsession with extensive experience leveraging UX research for foundational insights and iterative design
  • Experience spanning the full product lifecycle, from discovery to launch and iteration, turning ambiguous problems and big ideas into a product and executing it flawlessly
  • Ownership mindset with a proactive approach to driving projects and teams forward
  • Excellent communication skills and comfortable presenting demos to an executive audience, talking to customers, and aligning with cross-functional partners

Nice to have

  • Experience with 0-1 product initiatives
  • Experience collaborating with an executive audience, incorporating strategic direction, and presenting design recommendations
  • Proven ability to design highly complex, multi-step workflows with significant decision depth and interdependencies
  • Familiarity with and passion for AI/ML and other emerging technologies

What the JD emphasized

  • lead design
  • designing new products from scratch
  • zero-to-one environments
  • high ambiguity
  • autonomy
  • full product lifecycle
  • turning ambiguous problems
  • executing it flawlessly
  • Ownership mindset
  • proactive approach