Overview
Remote
USD 216,500.00 - 292,900.00 per year
Full Time
Skills
Cloud Computing
Pivotal
Revenue Growth
Innovation
Partnership
Operational Excellence
Leadership
Blogging
Roadmaps
Sprint
Accountability
Quality Assurance
Technical Direction
Collaboration
IT Management
Dropbox
Computer Science
Physics
Mathematics
People Management
API
Agile
Management
UPS
Strategic Management
Monetization
Optimization
Product Design
Data Engineering
Job Details
Role Description
At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. Engineering Managers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints.
This Engineering Manager will partner with a dedicated Product Manager to be the directly responsible individuals for executing on critical company-wide business objectives, with direct oversight from the CEO. They will accountable for the business impact of the same.
This team will own company priority project Growth Initiative Pipeline and Funnel Optimization. You will lead Engineering teams that deliver optimizations to our funnels-across trials, conversion, and loss aversion-which, together with prior improvements, will drive increases in user subscription retention, trial conversion, and recurring revenue growth.
As an Engineering Manager, you'll thrive in our team if you love chasing impact, working through ambiguity, and developing a culture of innovation. In this role, you'll lead a team of 12-25 engineers, leveraging your robust managerial toolbox to drive direct business and customer impact independently. You'll work closely with your direct reports, cross-functional partners, and other teams to build the future of Dropbox. Our team culture rewards a bias for action, engineering partnership in defining our strategy, and efficient operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for driving results in a collaborative, virtual-first environment.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what's expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.
Responsibilities
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$216,500-$292,900 USD
US Zone 3
$192,400-$260,400 USD
At Dropbox, we believe in simplifying the way people work together. We provide a range of innovative cloud-based solutions to empower individuals and businesses to share, access, and collaborate on their files seamlessly. Engineering Managers are pivotal in shaping our mission of building a more enlightened way of working where everyone can unleash their creative potential without constraints.
This Engineering Manager will partner with a dedicated Product Manager to be the directly responsible individuals for executing on critical company-wide business objectives, with direct oversight from the CEO. They will accountable for the business impact of the same.
This team will own company priority project Growth Initiative Pipeline and Funnel Optimization. You will lead Engineering teams that deliver optimizations to our funnels-across trials, conversion, and loss aversion-which, together with prior improvements, will drive increases in user subscription retention, trial conversion, and recurring revenue growth.
As an Engineering Manager, you'll thrive in our team if you love chasing impact, working through ambiguity, and developing a culture of innovation. In this role, you'll lead a team of 12-25 engineers, leveraging your robust managerial toolbox to drive direct business and customer impact independently. You'll work closely with your direct reports, cross-functional partners, and other teams to build the future of Dropbox. Our team culture rewards a bias for action, engineering partnership in defining our strategy, and efficient operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, technical expertise, and a passion for driving results in a collaborative, virtual-first environment.
Our Engineering Career Framework is viewable by anyone outside the company and describes what's expected for our engineers at each of our career levels. Check out our blog post on this topic and more here.
Responsibilities
- Directly manage up to 25 direct reports, as a single execution unit
- Partner with multiple Product Managers to plan roadmaps and sprints
- Accountable for high quality execution on critical and high visibility business objectives
- Responsible for making tradeoffs between feature work and addressing long term technical debt
- Responsible for excellence in software quality, engineering practices and operations.
- Lead their team through standard Agile processes, such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
- Review and Approve engineering designs and able to set technical direction (in collaboration with a Technical Lead)
- Drive cross-org initiatives alongside execution responsibilities
- Drive career conversations and career plans for your direct reports
Many teams at Dropbox run Services with on-call rotations, which entails being available for calls during both core and non-core business hours. If a team has an on-call rotation, all engineers on the team are expected to participate in the rotation as part of their employment. Applicants are encouraged to ask for more details of the rotations to which the applicant is applying.
Requirements
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics) or equivalent technical experience
- Minimum of 8 years of people management experience with an engineering team
- Minimum of 10 years as a software engineer or equivalent technical experience
- Must have experience managing engineering organizations of 20 or above, and experience managing managers
- Must have worked in a consumer user-facing team (versus a platform team, a developer-facing API-based product, etc)
- Must have experience running a standard Agile process such as backlog management, stand ups, retros, etc
- Must have experience working on a high-scale software as a service product
- Setting strategic direction on a consumer-facing product and driving a multi-year execution plan
- Experience working on growth, monetization, or funnel optimization for a consumer-facing product
- Experience partnering with Product, Design, and Data Engineering leaders to set and accomplish measurable business outcomes
US Zone 1
This role is not available in Zone 1
US Zone 2
$216,500-$292,900 USD
US Zone 3
$192,400-$260,400 USD
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