Principal Product Manager

Role Description

Dropbox is evolving its business offering for small and medium-sized teams—what we’re calling Dropbox Business 2.0. We’re seeking a portfolio PM to own the end-to-end strategy across multiple product swim lanes (activation expansion admin collaboration surfaces etc.) ensuring the system fits together coherently and delivers compounding value for teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the portfolio strategy for Dropbox’s Teams & Collaboration experience—set vision craft a multi-year roadmap and align multiple product/engineering/design streams behind clear objectives.

• Evolve definition of “collaboration at Dropbox.” Lead discovery and validation to specify the MVP and evolution of  collaboration  and sharing features

• Ensure system coherence. Review and reconcile plans across activation expansion admin and collaboration surfaces to prevent overlap resolve conflicts and create a unified end-to-end experience.

• Drive execution at scale. Translate strategy into crisp bets and milestones; set success metrics; run data-informed prioritization; unblock teams; hold the bar on product quality and consistency.

• Champion the customer. Partner with Research Design Data Support and GTM to deeply understand SMB team needs and validate solutions through iterative testing.

• Orchestrate cross-functional alignment. Build tight partnerships with Eng Directors/Leads and Design; coordinate with Security/Privacy Identity Billing and other platform groups when changes cut across surfaces.

• Deliver growth outcomes. Work with activation/expansion owners on seamless team creation invitations onboarding and collaborative “aha” moments that drive adoption and retention.

• Mentor and raise the bar. Informally coach other PMs; model high-craft PRDs decision memos and strategy narratives.

Requirements

• 10+ years total experience with 8+ years in Product Management including ownership of complex multi-surface products.

• Demonstrated success leading a portfolio or multi-product area (multiple teams/squads) as a senior/principal IC—setting strategy while driving execution through influence.

• B2B SaaS experience with meaningful exposure to SMB/team products (e.g. collaboration productivity workflow or communications).

• Proven ability to ship net-new 0→1 as well as scale 1→N features in a live product with iterative learning loops.

• Strong systems thinking and product sense; adept at identifying seams and dependencies across admin identity/permissions sharing notifications and content.

• Data-driven decision making: defines metrics designs experiments and blends quant + qual to converge on the right product outcomes.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication; can align executives and multiple teams with clear narratives and rigorous trade-off reasoning.

• Track record working closely with Engineering and Design partners to navigate technical constraints and deliver elegant solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Built or scaled collaboration features (tasks assignments due dates reminders/notifications lightweight workflows) integrated with content or file systems.

• Experience in activation invitations and team formation funnels; driving expansion/retention through collaborative “moments of value.”

• Background with multi-tenant admin needs (roles/permissions auditability) identity & access management and/or billing/entitlements in SaaS.

• Led cross-org programs that touched platform teams (e.g. notifications search sharing security/privacy).

• Familiarity with the SMB collaboration landscape (e.g. productivity project/task tools) and how to position a differentiated offering.

• Prior success influencing director+ stakeholders and presenting portfolio trade-offs at the exec level.

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$237200—$320900 USD

US Zone 3

$210800—$285200 USD