Staff Product Manager

Posted 4 Hours Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
213K-288K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
Dropbox isn’t just a workplace—it’s a living lab for more enlightened ways of working.
The Role
The Staff Product Manager will define and execute the product vision and strategy for Stacks and project context experiences, collaborating cross-functionally, and helping users navigate complex workflows and systems.
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Responsibilities
  • Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Stacks and project context experiences within Dropbox.
  • Clarify the relationship between folders, Stacks, Spaces, projects, Home, AI/chat experiences, and collaborative workflows to create a cohesive user mental model.
  • Build intelligent project context experiences that bring together Dropbox content, third-party references, comments, tasks, activity, status, versions, and AI-generated summaries in trusted workspaces.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Search, Connectors, Sharing, Platform, and AI teams to deliver scalable and intuitive user experiences.
  • Define onboarding flows, naming systems, promotion paths, and interaction patterns that help users understand when and why to use Stacks.
  • Establish product quality bars, experimentation frameworks, learning goals, and success metrics for early design partner programs and broader rollout strategies.
  • Translate complex technical tradeoffs around retrieval, permissions, freshness, connector reliability, and model behavior into clear product decisions that maintain user trust and simplicity.
Requirements
  • 10+ years of product management experience building and shipping high-impact user-facing products.
  • Deep experience with conceptual model thinking and a knack for making the complex seem simple.
  • Strong technical depth with the ability to reason about AI/LLM systems, retrieval quality, search relevance, permissions, platform constraints, and distributed product architectures.
  • Demonstrated success building products that balance UX simplicity with underlying technical complexity.
  • Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data Science, AI/ML, and Platform teams to define ambiguous product areas and drive execution.
  • Strong product instincts around trust, precision, recall, freshness, citations, source boundaries, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
  • Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building AI-powered productivity, search, collaboration, or workspace products.
  • Familiarity with retrieval systems, connectors, recommendation systems, or context-aware AI experiences.
  • Experience working on products involving permissions models, shared workspaces, or enterprise collaboration systems.
  • Strong understanding of modern knowledge work workflows across creative, client-service, media, construction, or project-based teams.
  • Experience leading 0→1 product initiatives in ambiguous or emerging product categories.
Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2
$212,700$287,700 USD
US Zone 3
$189,000$255,800 USD

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of product management experience building and shipping high-impact user-facing products
  • Deep experience with conceptual model thinking
  • Strong technical depth with AI/LLM systems
  • Demonstrated success building products that balance UX simplicity with technical complexity
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

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HQ: San Francisco, CA
2,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2007

What We Do

We're a global community of bold visionaries and resourceful doers who are shaping the future of Dropbox—and with it the future of work. Our Virtual First model combines the flexibility of a distributed workplace with the power of human connection, making space for both meaningful work and meaningful relationships. With our start-up mindset and enterprise-level opportunities, you can be who you are and grow into who you’re meant to be. Here, you can own your impact to make work more intuitive, joyful, and human—for you as a Dropboxer and for hundreds of millions of people worldwide. If you're ready to push boundaries—and yourself—Dropbox is ready for you.

Why Work With Us

We believe people do their best work when empowered with autonomy and harmony, and we understand there’s no substitute for human connection. Our Virtual First model combines the flexibility of remote work with the power of in-person collaboration to create the best of both worlds: a distributed workplace, anchored in community.

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