The Staff Product Manager will define product vision and strategy for Stacks within Dropbox, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver user-friendly experiences and technical solutions while ensuring product quality and user trust.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Stacks and project context experiences within Dropbox.
- Clarify the relationship between folders, Stacks, Spaces, projects, Home, AI/chat experiences, and collaborative workflows to create a cohesive user mental model.
- Build intelligent project context experiences that bring together Dropbox content, third-party references, comments, tasks, activity, status, versions, and AI-generated summaries in trusted workspaces.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Search, Connectors, Sharing, Platform, and AI teams to deliver scalable and intuitive user experiences.
- Define onboarding flows, naming systems, promotion paths, and interaction patterns that help users understand when and why to use Stacks.
- Establish product quality bars, experimentation frameworks, learning goals, and success metrics for early design partner programs and broader rollout strategies.
- Translate complex technical tradeoffs around retrieval, permissions, freshness, connector reliability, and model behavior into clear product decisions that maintain user trust and simplicity.
- 10+ years of product management experience building and shipping high-impact user-facing products.
- Deep experience with conceptual model thinking and a knack for making the complex seem simple.
- Strong technical depth with the ability to reason about AI/LLM systems, retrieval quality, search relevance, permissions, platform constraints, and distributed product architectures.
- Demonstrated success building products that balance UX simplicity with underlying technical complexity.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data Science, AI/ML, and Platform teams to define ambiguous product areas and drive execution.
- Strong product instincts around trust, precision, recall, freshness, citations, source boundaries, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior leadership.
- Experience building AI-powered productivity, search, collaboration, or workspace products.
- Familiarity with retrieval systems, connectors, recommendation systems, or context-aware AI experiences.
- Experience working on products involving permissions models, shared workspaces, or enterprise collaboration systems.
- Strong understanding of modern knowledge work workflows across creative, client-service, media, construction, or project-based teams.
- Experience leading 0→1 product initiatives in ambiguous or emerging product categories.
Compensation
Canada Pay Range
$196,400—$265,700 CAD
Dropbox Austin, Texas, USA Office
Austin, TX, United States
Dropbox United States Office
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