Strategic Workforce Planning Business Partner

Role Description

Dropbox is looking for an experienced Strategic Workforce Planning Business Partner to join our Strategic Workforce Planning team. This is a high-impact role responsible for delivering informative data-driven and practical workforce solutions to support our People team Finance and Business Leaders in growing a company-wide workforce planning (WFP) capability. You’ll partner with our existing Workforce Planning team to execute on the long-term vision and roadmap for workforce planning to develop data-driven insights and visualizations with company-level impact. As a Virtual First company this role is ideal for someone who is “scrappy” analytical able to forge cross-functional partnerships and is energized by the opportunity to build technical solutions from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end headcount management processes including requisition tracking scenario-based headcount planning and process optimization.

• Build and maintain workforce dashboards (e.g. headcount location recruiting capacity) to drive real-time insights for leaders.

• Partner with Finance on supply/demand analysis forecasting and business scenario planning.

• Collaborate with People Analytics and TA Operations to deliver predictive analytics dashboards and talent intelligence insights.

• Conduct external benchmarking and refresh workforce metrics to support HRBPs and business leaders in planning discussions.

• Support annual company-wide workforce planning processes ensuring alignment with Strategic and Financial Planning.

• Contribute to HR technology roadmap initiatives including requirements testing and implementation of WFP tools (e.g. Workday skills mapping talent intelligence platforms).

• Drive long-term strategic workforce planning projects building Dropbox’s capability for long-range talent planning resource allocation and org design.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in Workforce Planning Analytics or Consulting within a global corporate environment.

• Proven ability to design dashboards models and data visualizations that translate insights into actionable recommendations.

• Strong collaboration skills with demonstrated success partnering across Finance Recruiting HRBPs and other cross-functional teams.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting analysis and recommendations to leadership.

• Demonstrated agility in managing shifting priorities ambiguity and fast-paced business demands.

• Advanced technical expertise with Workday data/reporting Excel or Tableau and HR technology platforms and SQL.

• Hands-on experience implementing or refining Position Management and (ideally) skills-based workforce models.

• Project Management: Lead cross-team and/or multi-phase projects from design through implementation leveraging product management principles (roadmapping user journeys feature prioritization) and design thinking (prototype planning solutions and iterate based on data) to improve adoption and impact

• Experience leveraging AI tools to automate workflows enhance workforce data analysis and deliver insights in the flow of work; strong comfort with using AI to improve planning efficiency and decision-making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to various Talent Intelligence platforms

• People/HR domain experience someone who understands TA and HRBP roles

• Prior experience with company-level planning processes

• Experience deploying a skills-based workforce model is a strong advantage

Compensation

US Zone 1

This role is not available in Zone 1

US Zone 2

$123900—$167700 USD

US Zone 3

$110200—$149000 USD