The role involves leading workforce planning processes, developing dashboards, collaborating with various teams, and driving strategic workforce projects.
Role Description
Dropbox is looking for an experienced Strategic Workforce Planning Business Partner to join our Strategic Workforce Planning team. This is a high-impact role responsible for delivering informative, data-driven and practical workforce solutions to support our People team, Finance and Business Leaders in growing a company-wide workforce planning (WFP) capability. You’ll partner with our existing Workforce Planning team to execute on the long-term vision and roadmap for workforce planning, to develop data-driven insights and visualizations with company-level impact. As a Virtual First company, this role is ideal for someone who is “scrappy,” analytical, able to forge cross-functional partnerships, and is energized by the opportunity to build technical solutions from the ground up.
Responsibilities- Lead end-to-end headcount management processes, including requisition tracking, scenario-based headcount planning, and process optimization.
- Build and maintain workforce dashboards (e.g., headcount, location, recruiting capacity) to drive real-time insights for leaders.
- Partner with Finance on supply/demand analysis, forecasting, and business scenario planning.
- Collaborate with People Analytics and TA Operations to deliver predictive analytics, dashboards, and talent intelligence insights.
- Conduct external benchmarking and refresh workforce metrics to support HRBPs and business leaders in planning discussions.
- Support annual company-wide workforce planning processes, ensuring alignment with Strategic and Financial Planning.
- Contribute to HR technology roadmap initiatives, including requirements, testing, and implementation of WFP tools (e.g., Workday, skills mapping, talent intelligence platforms).
- Drive long-term strategic workforce planning projects, building Dropbox’s capability for long-range talent planning, resource allocation, and org design.
- 6+ years of experience in Workforce Planning, Analytics, or Consulting within a global corporate environment.
- Proven ability to design dashboards, models, and data visualizations that translate insights into actionable recommendations.
- Strong collaboration skills with demonstrated success partnering across Finance, Recruiting, HRBPs, and other cross-functional teams.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience presenting analysis and recommendations to leadership.
- Demonstrated agility in managing shifting priorities, ambiguity, and fast-paced business demands.
- Advanced technical expertise with Workday data/reporting, Excel or Tableau, and HR technology platforms and SQL
- Hands-on experience implementing or refining Position Management and (ideally) skills-based workforce models.
- Project Management: Lead cross-team and/or multi-phase projects from design through implementation, leveraging product management principles (roadmapping, user journeys, feature prioritization) and design thinking (prototype planning solutions, and iterate based on data) to improve adoption and impact
- Experience leveraging AI tools to automate workflows, enhance workforce data analysis, and deliver insights in the flow of work; strong comfort with using AI to improve planning efficiency and decision-making.
- Exposure to various Talent Intelligence platforms
- People/HR domain experience, someone who understands TA and HRBP roles
- Prior experience with company-level planning processes
- Experience deploying a skills-based workforce model is a strong advantage.
Canada Pay Range
$104,600—$141,500 CAD
Top Skills
Ai Tools
Excel
SQL
Tableau
Workday
Dropbox Los Angeles, California, USA Office
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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