Principal Product Designer

Role overview

Dropbox’s Design team is looking for a Principal Product Designer to define and deliver the future of content activation for Dropbox customers. You’ll lead the design vision and execution for AI-powered experiences that turn information stored in Dropbox into useful, intuitive, and trustworthy action—without adding complexity or taking away user control.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the design vision for Dropbox’s multi-product ecosystem for finding, understanding, activating, and acting on content.
• Design AI-powered experiences that increase customer effectiveness while preserving judgment and control.
• Ensure AI behaves as a trusted partner by reducing friction, surfacing what matters, accelerating decisions, and enabling action.
• Lead ambiguous, high-impact product areas end-to-end—from strategic framing through execution.
• Set a high craft bar across:
  • Interaction design, information architecture, systems thinking
  • Prototyping, content, visual quality, and implementation
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, and Design leadership to align teams and drive outcomes with urgency and quality.
• Raise the design organization’s standards by mentoring, improving critique, modeling excellent AI product design, and making the team more AI-enabled in exploration, prototyping, evaluation, and shipping.

Requirements

• 12+ years of product design experience.
• Strong record leading complex, ambiguous, high-impact initiatives from vision through launch at scale.
• Portfolio showing Principal-level craft, product judgment, systems thinking, and customer empathy.
• Ability to execute across the full range: strategy and narrative through flows, interaction models, prototypes, edge cases, content, and implementation quality.
• Proven ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice-to-haves

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