The Staff Product Manager will define product vision and strategy for Stacks within Dropbox, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver user-friendly experiences and technical solutions while ensuring product quality and user trust.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Stacks and project context experiences within Dropbox.
- Clarify the relationship between folders, Stacks, Spaces, projects, Home, AI/chat experiences, and collaborative workflows to create a cohesive user mental model.
- Build intelligent project context experiences that bring together Dropbox content, third-party references, comments, tasks, activity, status, versions, and AI-generated summaries in trusted workspaces.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Search, Connectors, Sharing, Platform, and AI teams to deliver scalable and intuitive user experiences.
- Define onboarding flows, naming systems, promotion paths, and interaction patterns that help users understand when and why to use Stacks.
- Establish product quality bars, experimentation frameworks, learning goals, and success metrics for early design partner programs and broader rollout strategies.
- Translate complex technical tradeoffs around retrieval, permissions, freshness, connector reliability, and model behavior into clear product decisions that maintain user trust and simplicity.
- 10+ years of product management experience building and shipping high-impact user-facing products.
- Deep experience with conceptual model thinking and a knack for making the complex seem simple.
- Strong technical depth with the ability to reason about AI/LLM systems, retrieval quality, search relevance, permissions, platform constraints, and distributed product architectures.
- Demonstrated success building products that balance UX simplicity with underlying technical complexity.
- Experience working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, Data Science, AI/ML, and Platform teams to define ambiguous product areas and drive execution.
- Strong product instincts around trust, precision, recall, freshness, citations, source boundaries, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder management skills with experience influencing senior leadership.
- Experience building AI-powered productivity, search, collaboration, or workspace products.
- Familiarity with retrieval systems, connectors, recommendation systems, or context-aware AI experiences.
- Experience working on products involving permissions models, shared workspaces, or enterprise collaboration systems.
- Strong understanding of modern knowledge work workflows across creative, client-service, media, construction, or project-based teams.
- Experience leading 0→1 product initiatives in ambiguous or emerging product categories.
Compensation
Canada Pay Range
$196,400—$265,700 CAD
Similar Jobs at Dropbox
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
As a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll optimize user monetization systems at Dropbox, leading technical strategies for checkout and subscriptions while mentoring engineers.
Top Skills:
GoPythonReactTypescript
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
Own and grow strategic distribution and ecosystem partnerships across AI, hardware, and SaaS to drive acquisition, adoption, and revenue. Identify opportunities, build business cases and financial models, lead negotiations, manage partner lifecycle, analyze performance, and collaborate cross-functionally to launch and scale partnerships.
Top Skills:
AIAutomationCloud ServicesDeveloper PlatformsHardware EcosystemsSaaS
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Consumer Web • Productivity • Software • App development • Data Privacy
Lead design vision and execution for Dropbox's multi-product ecosystem, focusing on high-trust AI-powered experiences that activate content. Translate emerging AI capabilities into simple, elegant, and trustworthy product interactions, mentor designers, raise design standards, and partner with cross-functional teams from strategy through implementation.
What you need to know about the Ottawa Tech Scene
The capital city of Canada and the nation's fourth-largest urban area, Ottawa has proven a rapidly growing global tech hub. With over 1,800 tech companies, many of which are leaders in their sectors, the city's tech talent now makes up more than 13 percent of its total workforce. This growth is driven not only by the big players like UL Solutions and Dropbox, but also by a thriving startup ecosystem, as new businesses emerge to follow in the footsteps of those that came before them.
