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Technical Program Manager, Platform Strategy & Operations

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Role Description 

As a Technical Program Manager at Dropbox you are responsible for making sure that engineering teams achieve success when striving to complete ambitious projects. You’ll own the execution of strategic and impactful projects and initiatives across the Platform organization to help us meet our goals. We’re looking for a candidate with demonstrated experience running large/cross-team projects and programs, expertise in stakeholder management, and the ability to quickly and creatively solve problems and unblock teams. You’ll need to be able to engage deeply with engineering management to understand and present tradeoffs needed to deliver commitments against firm deadlines.  We're looking for a self starter who will thrive in an often-times ambiguous environment and isn’t afraid of a challenge. 

Responsibilities

  • Act as the point of contact and interface to engineering teams and business partners for strategic initiatives and feature development.
  • Conduct project planning, strategic alignment, and drive decision making across multiple teams. 
  • Identify areas of improvement and be able to design repeatable processes to help teams work efficiently.
  • Have a balance of people, organizational, and technical skills to deliver and guide decision making without authority. 
  • Provide ongoing visibility into the progress, risks, and timelines of projects against targeted deadlines. 
  • Build clear and transparent communication channels to align internal stakeholders and ensure that relevant audiences receive accurate updates on programs and projects.
  • Collaborate with peers to design and implement standardized processes that help ensure consistency across the organization. 
  • Work closely with software development teams to define, improve internal tools and processes key to engineering success.
  • Develop and execute on strategies to improve engineering processes and sustainability across the company. 
  • Manage the release of key engineering projects to internal customers in a regular cadence. 

Requirements

  • 7-10+ years overall experience as a technical program manager in an engineering organization.
  • Experience driving diverse or company-wide programs.
  • Demonstrated ability and experience to influence, develop productive working relationships, and lead technical teams and key stakeholders from different business functions.
  • A diverse technical acumen--actively contribute to technical discussions, proactively identify challenges and risks, working closely with engineers and product manager on addressing challenges, and form mitigation plans.
  • You enjoy working on ambiguous problems and teasing out trade offs.
  • You have the ability to communicate complex plans effectively.
  • You are able to bring order to a complex situation with various stakeholders approaching a strategic problem in different ways.
  • Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills. Effective problem-solving skills.
  • Exercise technical judgment to keep goals for programs, projects and products attainable within a given timeline.
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What are Dropbox Perks + Benefits

Dropbox Benefits Overview

We’re proud to offer benefits that help all Dropboxers take care of their holistic selves, so they can keep flowing at work.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Restricted work hours
Return-to-work program post parental leave
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid volunteer time
Sabbatical
At Dropbox, this is called 'Recharge'
Paid holidays
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Recreational clubs
Relocation assistance
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks

Additional Perks + Benefits

In order to be successful in our Virtual First environment we needed to make changes that would allow employees to have more control over both where and how they work. Therefore, we embrace “non-linear workdays” with defined core collaboration hours that overlap across time zones. Beyond that, we encourage employees to design their own schedules to balance collaboration with needs for individual focus. We’ve also moved from “all day syncs” to an “async by default” culture, reserving meetings for discussion, debate, and decision-making, and handling all other work in our deep focus hours.

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