Staff Product Manager, Central AI Team

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Analytical and Problem solving, Effective communication skills, Leadership, Machine learning techniques, Project management

Job Description

Team Description

Our Product team advocates for our users and our business, setting the vision for our growing family of products. We use data, research, strategy, and empathy to guide multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal, balancing diverse perspectives and empowering our teams to do great work. As we scale globally, there’s plenty of space for you to grow alongside us and simplify life for millions of people around the world in team that always focuses on we, not I, and creates delightful products that are worthy of trust.

Role Description

Product managers set the vision for our growing family of products. We’re responsible for guiding multidisciplinary teams toward a common goal: shipping high quality products and creating business value. As advocates for both our users and our business, the best product managers balance a range of functional perspectives and empower their teams to do great, high impact work.

You will be the first Product Manager hire on the Central AI Team, a company wide team mandated with driving AI centric product development across Dropbox. As a senior product leader, you will lead a cross functional squad to develop and execute on the AI strategy for Dropbox. As a part of this effort, you will work closely with product leaders across business unites to deliver on the AI centric product strategy. You will also own the company wide ML technology stack with a goal to reduce barriers to prototyping and production

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute on the Dropbox wide strategy for AI centric products.
• Evaluate areas of investment for AI investment across Dropbox and collaborate with product leaders across the company to evangelize and execute on product roadmaps.
• Drive an evolution of the ML tech stack for prototyping and production across Dropbox.
• Make data-informed decisions. Know how you’re measuring success before starting any project. Obsess over your KPIs. Know when to commit more or less resources.
• Communicate clearly and crisply with leadership stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple teams in scrappy ways.
• Launch highly visible, well documented features and improvements with pace and quality, collaborating with marketing, support, customer success, and sales.
• Define new product goals working closely with engineers, designers, senior leaders, and other PMs.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience delivering highly successful and innovative software products which are AI powered.
• Deep understanding of ML tech stacks.
• Demonstrated ability to influence company level strategy and work with business leaders to execute on the transformation.
• Build alignment and listen well, but can also drive hard decisions, framing the different options and tradeoffs. 
• You push the pace. You take blame and pass the praise. People love working with you.
• Proven ability to lead teams and work cross-functionally in a highly collaborative environment.
• Ability to analyze and use quantitative and qualitative data to inform decisions.
• A deep understanding and empathy for consumer and business users — you love building products that make our customers feel joy, delight and trust.
• You’re a strong communicator, with an ability to influence with cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

Dropbox is committed to investing in the holistic health and wellbeing of all Dropboxers and their families. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Retirement Savings through a defined contribution pension or savings plan**
• Dropbox provides a Flexible PTO Policy in addition to your statutory holidays allowing you to unplug, unwind, and refresh
• Dropbox also provides exclusive additional paid time off for all FTE employees across the Globe, in addition to any relevant statutory holidays
• Protection Plans including Life and Disability Insurance*
• A Perks Allowance to be used on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness, learning and development, food & groceries, and much more
• Parental benefits including; Parental Leave, Fertility Benefits, Adoptions and Surrogacy support, and Lactation support

Additional benefits details are available upon request.

*Where group plans are not available, allowances are provided
**Benefit, amount, and type are dependent on geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy

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 wo

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).