Principal Product Designer

ABOUT THE ROLE Dropbox is seeking a Principal Designer to lead the design vision and execution for its portfolio of products and services, focusing on content activation for customers. This role will shape how AI helps customers get their jobs done faster, better, and with greater confidence. As a Principal Designer, you will create experiences where AI acts as a thoughtful partner, surfacing what matters, reducing busywork, and helping people move from information to action while keeping customers in control. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Principal Designer, you will be responsible for defining and driving the design vision for Dropbox's broader multi-product ecosystem. You will design AI-powered experiences that make customers sharper and more effective without replacing their judgment. Your key responsibilities will include: - Defining the design vision for Dropbox's broader multi-product ecosystem that helps customers find, understand, activate, and act on the content already living in Dropbox. - Designing AI-powered experiences that make customers sharper and more effective without replacing their judgment. - Leading ambiguous, high-impact product areas from strategic framing through execution, translating emerging AI capabilities into simple, elegant, high-trust experiences. - Setting an exceptionally high craft bar across interaction design, information architecture, systems thinking, prototyping, content, visual quality, and implementation. - Partnering deeply with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, and Design leadership to shape strategy, prioritize the highest-impact opportunities, align teams, and drive outcomes with urgency and quality. - Raising the bar for the design organization by mentoring designers, improving critique, modeling excellent AI product design, and helping the team become more AI-enabled in how they explore, prototype, evaluate, and ship work. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - 12+ years of product design experience, with a strong track record leading complex, ambiguous, high-impact product initiatives from vision through launch at scale. - A portfolio that demonstrates Principal-level craft, product judgment, systems thinking, customer empathy, and the ability to ship experiences that customers understand, trust, and love. - Exceptional executional range, with the ability to move fluently between strategy, systems thinking, and execution. WHY REMOTE As a remote employee at Dropbox, you will have the flexibility to work from anywhere while being part of a collaborative and innovative team. This role requires a designer with exceptional craft, strong product judgment, and the ability to operate across strategy, systems, and execution. BENEFITS Dropbox offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth and development.