Dropbox is looking to optimize activation and engagement flows for Teams users by modernizing onboarding and activation, cleaning up core Dropbox surfaces, and building intelligent, adaptive systems to boost team activation, invites, and long-term engagement across platforms, ultimately aiming to drive down churn.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of people management experience with an engineering team
- Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience
- Must have experience managing engineering organizations of 20 or above, and experience managing managers
- Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
- Must have experience working on a consumer-facing product onboarding flow on web
Responsibilities
- Directly manage up to 25 direct reports as a single execution unit
- Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints
- Be accountable for high quality execution on critical and highly visible business objectives
- Be responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt
- Be responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations
- Lead their team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
- Review and Approve engineering designs and able to set technical direction (in collaboration with a Technical Lead)
Other
- Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
- Drive career conversations and career plans for your direct reports
- Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
- The range(s) listed above is the expected annual salary/OTE (On-Target Earnings) for this role, subject to change.
