Role Description
As the VP of Engineering for the Core Business at Dropbox, you will be a key leader responsible for the overall success of our engineering initiatives for our core products. You will report directly to General Manager for Core and play a pivotal role in shaping the engineering direction of the company. In this role, you will have end-to-end ownership of product engineering and will partner closely with product, growth, sales, marketing, and design teams. You will lead the engineering teams responsible for the development of all of our core products including FSS, DocSend, Sign, Replay, and Capture for personal, professional, and team use. We've built a top-tier product engineering team and are seeking a visionary leader to guide our next phase of growth.
Responsibilities
- You will lead and inspire a world-class engineering organization, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- You will lead the team in balancing urgency vs. the incredibly high quality bar expected by both our customers and the broader Dropbox organization, through clear and repeatable engineering processes
- You will partner closely with Dropbox Core leadership across all functions, including Product, Growth, Design, Platform, GTM and Support to manage success of cross-functional relationships and initiatives
- You will own Dropbox Core’s technical strategy and create a culture of strong technical ownership, resulting in highly reliable products and services at scale
- You will set technical direction, make critical architectural decisions, and ensure the successful delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-performance software solutions
- You will own the delivery of business strategy, and work with executive teams to set business strategy each year
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience in a medium or large software company including 6+ years managing high performance teams
- Experience managing engineering teams similar in size to our 400 person engineering organization
- Ability to balance business delivery with engineering quality, strong business acumen, and a keen eye for data-driven decision making, and a knack for managing both immediate needs and long-term investments.
- Strong technical craft mastery and engineering discipline
- Deep organization capabilities, especially in regards to influence, collaboration and communication
- Experience building a high performing culture a must
Preferred Qualifications
- B2C experience at a product led growth company
- Start up and growth experience leading fast growing engineering teams with a set of sub teams and managers
- Experience managing full-stack (mobile, platform & product) engineering organizations at SaaS companies
- Experience leading an engineering department through a transformation phase
- Experience at both large (1000+) companies and SaaS start-ups (< 200)
- Experience with acquisitions, both from the acquire and acquired side
- Experience managing remote / virtual-first teams
Compensation
US Zone 1
$365,500—$494,500 USD
US Zone 2
$365,500—$494,500 USD
US Zone 3
$365,500—$494,500 USD
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Dropbox is a special place where we are all seeking to fulfill our mission to design a more enlightened way of working. We’re looking for innovative talent to join us on our journey. The words shared by our founders at the start of Dropbox still ring true today. Wouldn’t it be great if our working environment—and the tools we use—were designed with people’s actual needs in mind? Imagine if every minute at work were well spent—if we could focus and spend our time on the things that matter. This is possible, and Dropbox is connecting the dots. The nearly 3,000 Dropboxers around the world have helped make Dropbox a living workspace - the place where people come together and their ideas come to life. Our 700+ million global users have been some of our best salespeople, and they have helped us acquire customers with incredible efficiency. As a result, we reached a billion dollar revenue run rate faster than any software-as-a-service company in history. Dropbox is making the dream of a fulfilling and seamless work life a reality. We hope you’ll join us on the journey.
Why Work With Us
Our remote work model is a deliberate shift to provide greater flexibility, create a level-playing field, and evolve our culture to focus on people over places. Being a Virtual First company has allowed us to focus on our impact and effectiveness, by making investments in our employees according to what they need to do their best work.
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Employees work remotely.
While remote work is the primary experience for our employees, we also prioritize opportunities for quarterly in-person collaboration knowing that connection is vital to a thriving workforce. We focus on how we work, not where we work.
