Director of Product Design

Join Dropbox as the Director of Product Design, where you will lead the evolution of our design system into a next-generation design and technology platform. You will establish Design Systems and Design Technology as a center of excellence for front-end product quality and drive the vision for Dropbox's next-generation design system. This is a critical leadership role that will shape the future of our multi-product experience.

• Oversee the evolution of Dropbox’s design system into a next generation design and technology platform, including the foundational system of components, tokens, accessibility standards, and documentation.
• Establish Design Systems and Design Technology as a center of excellence for front end product quality, interaction patterns, accessibility, implementation standards, and cross product experience coherence.
• Lead and develop a team of designers, design technologists, and systems specialists, creating clear ownership, strong critique practices, high standards, and a culture of pragmatic systems thinking.
• A portfolio or body of work that demonstrates strong design leadership, systems strategy, product impact, organizational influence, and excellent taste
• Proven ability to influence senior cross functional partners, create alignment across ambiguous problem spaces, and drive horizontal product quality without relying on mandate alone
• Deep experience building, scaling, or transforming design systems for complex multi product organizations
• 12+ years of product design, design systems, design technology, or front end experience, including significant experience leading complex systems or platform initiatives at scale
• High craft standards across interaction design, information architecture, visual design, accessibility, prototyping, content patterns, motion, and implementation quality
• 5+ years of people management experience, with a strong track record of leading senior designers, managers, design technologists, or multidisciplinary systems teams
• Exceptional systems thinking, with the ability to see patterns across teams, products, platforms, and workflows, then turn those patterns into reusable experience infrastructure
• Experience defining governance models, contribution models, quality standards, documentation practices, and lifecycle processes for shared product systems
• A clear point of view on the future of design systems, including how AI, design technology, design infrastructure, and reusable product logic should change how teams design and build
• Strong technical fluency and comfort partnering with front end engineering teams on component architecture, implementation standards, platform constraints, quality control, and system adoption
• A collaborative, low ego leadership style, with a track record of developing talent, raising standards, improving critique, and helping teams produce better work than they could have produced on their own
• Strong product judgment and the ability to connect systems work directly to customer value, product strategy, execution speed, and business impact
• Strong technical fluency across coded systems, design tokens, component architecture, accessibility infrastructure, prototyping tools, and front end implementation quality
• A strong point of view on the future of design systems, including how AI, design technology, and reusable product logic should evolve the way teams design and build
• Experience building shared patterns for complex product domains such as collaboration, content management, permissions, search, productivity, AI, administration, or multi product ecosystems
• Experience leading design systems, design technology, front end platform, or product infrastructure teams in a large scale, multi product organization
• Deep understanding of how to leverage content systems as part and parcel of the overall design system