Staff Product Manager

About the Role

As a Staff Product Manager, you will be responsible for building intelligent project context experiences that bring together Dropbox content, third-party references, comments, tasks, activity, status, versions, and AI-generated summaries in trusted workspaces. Your day-to-day work will involve partnering with various teams to establish product quality bars, experimentation frameworks, learning goals, and success metrics.

The team you will be working with is focused on delivering high-impact user-facing products that simplify collaboration and productivity. Your role will be crucial in driving the product vision and ensuring that it aligns with the company's overall goals. You will report to a senior product leader and will be expected to influence senior leadership through your strategic thinking and communication skills.

What You Will Do

• 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.
• Collaborate with the Design team to develop user interfaces that are both aesthetically pleasing and functional.
• Work closely with the Engineering team to ensure seamless implementation of product features.

What We Are Looking For

• 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.
• Proficiency in Excel and other productivity tools.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and version control systems.

Nice to Have

• 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.

Benefits and Perks

• Competitive salary range (
  96,400 - $265,700 CAD).
• Equity in a leading technology company.
• Comprehensive health insurance.
• Flexible PTO policy and remote work stipend.
• Professional development opportunities and access to cutting-edge technology.
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment with a team of experienced professionals.

• Develop a strong understanding of product management principles and practices, and be prepared to discuss your experience and approach.
• Review Dropbox's products and services to understand the company's vision and how your role contributes to it.
• Prepare examples of your work, such as product roadmaps, user flow diagrams, or design prototypes, to demonstrate your skills and experience.
• Practice your communication and presentation skills, as you will be working with cross-functional teams and influencing senior leadership.
• Be prepared to discuss your experience with AI-powered productivity tools and collaboration platforms, and how you have driven product decisions that balance user trust and simplicity.
• Research the current market trends and competition in the collaboration and productivity space to demonstrate your understanding of the industry and your ability to drive innovation.