VP, Engineering, New Initiatives

Role Description

How many times you get an opportunity to be at the ground floor on a very big and important mission? What if you get to be one of the top leaders defining the mission, hiring, guiding your teams and influencing the direction of Dropbox? As VP of Engineering for this new division, you will exactly get to do that. You’re able to balance business delivery with engineering quality, have strong business acumen, are data and metrics oriented, and can balance a portfolio of short term and long term investments.

As a ground floor opportunity for this startup team, we need this lead to build a top-tier engineering culture, focus on product strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• 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 leadership across all functions - Product, Design, Data, Research, GTM, Customer success and Sales
• You will partner deeply with Engineering, Product and Design leadership across Dropbox
• 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

Requirements

• 12+ years of engineering experience in a medium or larger software company including 6+ years managing high performance teams
• Strong experience in building recommendations systems with ML/AI.
• Demonstrated ability to hire and grow senior leaders and managers
• Strong technical craft mastery and engineering discipline
• Deep organization capabilities, especially in regards to influence, collaboration and communication
• Leading Growth team experience is a plus

Total Rewards

Dropbox takes a number of factors into account when determining individual starting pay, including job and level they are hired into, location/metropolitan area, skillset, and peer compensation. We target most new hire offers between the minimum up to the middle of the range.

Salary/OTE is just one component of Dropbox’s total rewards package. All regular employees are also eligible for the corporate bonus program or a sales incentive (target included in OTE) as well as stock in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).

Current Salary/OTE Ranges (Subject to change):

$390,000 - $405,000 - $420,000