Staff Product Manager

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