Product Designer, Mobile
Role Description
As a Product Designer on the Mobile Design Studio you will work across the product development lifecycle to improve the quality of the experience of the Dropbox Mobile experience.
Some projects will involve a high degree of ambiguity, and you can use your design skills to explore opportunities and align your team. Other projects will be incremental improvements toward a vision that you and the team set together.
You will partner closely with product, engineering, data science leadership plus your manager to achieve the best possible outcomes for our customer and for Dropbox.
- Impact. Deliver high-quality work that adds the most value for our business, cross-functional stakeholders, and customers.
- Decision-making. Identify and gather input from the right stakeholders and consider customer needs to make informed and timely decisions.
- Communication. Contribute to crisp narratives to create understanding, influence others, and enable effective decision-making. Influence stakeholders across a variety of audiences.
- Customer focus. Understand the needs of my customers and validate that my proposed solutions solve the right problems.
- Solution generation. Use a framework for exploration and scope the breadth of your exploration to potential impact.
- Product strategy. Create a compelling and easily understood vision for a complex feature or product area that inspires the team to take action.
- UX problem solving. Demonstrate a coherent solution that integrates multiple features, users, or workflows
- Visual design. Consistently practices good use of visual design skills.
- Iteration. Work through multiple cycles of iteration and evaluation, addressing a succession of issues.
- 5+ years of UX-related work experience
- High craft bar and attention to detail in visual design, interaction design, and prototyping
- Fluency with common prototyping tools to demonstrate complex features and flows in web experiences
- Innate customer obsession and deep experience working with UX research on foundational insights as well as concept evaluation and iteration
- Demonstrated skills for collaborating closely with other designers, researchers, product managers, data scientists and engineers in order to achieve better design outcomes
- Experience across the product development lifecycle from discovery through shipping/iteration.
- Familiarity with designing for mature products — incrementally, against visions, and through step-change improvements
- Demonstrated ability to launch and iterate on products and features, with an eye towards business and customer impact
- Fluency with describing impact in quantitative/business metrics as well as qualitative methods.
- Ownership mindset with a bias towards action, helping to drive teams and projects forward.
- Deep knowledge working within a design system as well as contributing back to it.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing for a specialized customer audience in an SaaS environment
- Examples of redesigning large portions of mature products in a large, matrixed team
Total Rewards
Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.
Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
Current Salary/OTE Ranges (Subject to change):
• US Zone 1: $171,700 - $202,000 - $232,300.
• US Zone 2: $154,500 - $181,800 - $209,100.
• US Zone 3: $137,400 - $161,600 - $185,800.
Dropbox uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current US Zone locations are as follows:
• US Zone 1: San Francisco metro, New York City metro, or Seattle metro
• US Zone 2: Austin (TX) metro, Chicago metro, California (outside SF metro), Colorado, Connecticut (outside NYC metro), Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York (outside NYC metro), Oregon, Pennsylvania (outside NYC or DC metro), Washington (outside Seattle metro), Washington DC metro and West Virginia (DC metro)
• US Zone 3: All other US locations
Dropbox is a Virtual First company and is open to hiring candidates across the U.S. However, for this role, the locations posted are preferred.
