Director of Engineering, New AI Initiatives

As the Director of Engineering within AMP, you’ll be working directly with executive leadership to explore productivity tools that could grow into the next line of business for Dropbox. You will be responsible for people management, technical direction, and driving major strategic and product initiatives. You will have significant strategic impact and influence the direction of the company, as well as direct responsibility for new products. You will do this together with an amazing team of talented, passionate engineers and engineering managers including cross functional leaders. AMP products are key initiatives in the Office of the CEO and you will be responsible for working with the GM to define and execute on the strategy for making both of these products adopted by millions of users. 

You will drive the engineering team to adopt and improve on the best from industry leading tools while also leveraging Dropbox’s core engineering capabilities. You will be responsible for balancing business delivery with engineering quality, building plans with strong business acumen and being data and metrics oriented. You should be comfortable in a scrappy environment with small autonomous pods iterating rapidly on product prototypes. You need to be continuously focused on the needs of the customer and always looking for feedback. You also need to be comfortable wearing multiple hats, willing and able to jump into product, design, or user research responsibilities when needed. Ideally, you are at your best when you are in fast-paced and startup-like teams, shipping customer-facing products and having a deep curiosity which leads you to build side projects of your own. If you are an engineering leader who enjoys taking ownership of your projects and making things happen in the face of ambiguity, we want to hear from you!

• 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 leadership across all functions, including GTM and Support
• You will work closely with the GM of AMP and other engineering leaders across the company to set technical strategy and direction
• You will create a culture of strong technical ownership, resulting in highly reliable products and services at scale
• You'll foster a healthy and collaborative culture that embodies Dropbox's values and continue to develop Dropbox as one of the best places to work

• 12+ years of engineering experience in a medium or larger software company including 6+ years managing high performance teams
• Demonstrated ability to hire and grow senior leaders and managers
• Strong technical craft mastery and engineering discipline
• Deep organization capabilities, especially in influence, collaboration and communication
• BS degree in a technical or design related discipline (CS preferred)
• Growth or business experience and focus is a plus
• Large scale SaaS cloud application design and management is a plus