Company Description

Dropbox is a leading global collaboration platform that's transforming the way people work together, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. With more than 500 million registered users across more than 180 countries, our mission is to design a more enlightened way of working. From our headquarters in San Francisco to eight dedicated Studios and a worldwide team of employees who choose where they work best, our Virtual First approach is leading the way into the future of work.

Team Description

Our Engineering team is working to simplify the way people work together. They’re building a family of products that handle over a billion files a day for people around the world. With our broad mission and massive scale, there are countless opportunities to make an impact.

Role Description

The Data Science team is a central function which seeks to leverage data to help make better business decisions. This team leverages a variety of data sources and quantitative techniques to synthesize stories around how our customers use our products and develop key insights and actionable recommendations for our product teams.

We're looking for a Director, who will build and lead a team of data scientists to partner with growth, revenue, and product teams to answer key questions about how to grow revenue, scale a business, and launch high-impact initiatives. You’ll act as one of the most senior analytics leaders at Dropbox, and will work alongside product, engineering, design, marketing and research executives to advise on the company’s most important quantitative projects and achieve its most strategic business goals, as well as partner with the product organization to create and execute a quantitative monetization strategy tied to our products.

To do this, you’ll align key analytics projects for you and your team with business objectives, and communicate your insights broadly across multiple leadership teams. You’ll also have the unique opportunity to define what analytics means at Dropbox by influencing groups across the company to better understand how they can leverage data to achieve their most ambitious goals, leading by example. This role is highly strategic and uniquely is positioned to drive multiplier impacts for Dropbox as we continue to innovate and expand our core products. At the same time, you will get to lead an amazing team of talented, passionate data scientists and partner with senior leaders across Dropbox functions to shape the future of our business.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a team of high performing managers and data scientists to deliver best in class analytics 
• Work with cross-functional teams (including Machine learning, Marketing, Product, Engineering, Design, User Research, and senior executives) to rapidly execute and iterate on our product strategy
• Leverage data-driven insights to proactively identify most impactful opportunities, and inform future experimentation design and product roadmaps  
• Create personalized segmentation strategies leveraging ML models to enable targeting of offers and experiences based on user attributes 
• Identify key metrics and leverage automated dashboards to track health of the business to inform financial outlook
• Ensure active collaboration with cross functional partners and perform analytical deep-dives to analyze problems, size opportunities and optimize through experimentation. 
• Translate complex concepts into implications for the business via excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Coach, mentor and help set strategy for Data Scientists to drive even more impact for the team
• Understand what matters most and prioritize ruthlessly

Requirements

• Bachelors’ or above in quantitative discipline: Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years experience of leveraging data-driven analysis to influence key business decisions, preferably in a tech company
• 3+ years directly managing data scientists, quantitative researchers, or product analysts
• Proven track record of being able to work independently and proactively engage with business stakeholders with minimal direction & driver measurable business impact
• Ability to lead and inspire a team who converts data into insights 
• Ability to influence prioritization and execution of high impact projects effecting customer experience and monetization
• Ability to analyze large datasets and use data to inform product or business decision making, with a track record of driving directly measurable product or business impact
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Previous experience building data driven programs and teams - experience with SQL and large datasets, deep understanding of statistical analysis & experiment design

Dropbox is an equal opportunity employer. We are a welcoming place for everyone, and we do our best to make sure all people feel supported and connected at work. A big part of that effort is our support for members and allies of internal groups like Asians at Dropbox, BlackDropboxers, Latinx, Pridebox (LGBTQ), Vets at Dropbox, Women at Dropbox, ATX Diversity (based in Austin, Texas) and the Dropbox Empowerment Network (based in Dublin, Ireland).

Benefits and Perks

• Generous company paid individual medical, dental, & vision insurance coverage
  
• 401k + company match
• Market competitive total compensation package
• Free Dropbox space for your friends and family
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Generous vacation policy
• 11 company paid holidays
• Volunteer time off
• Company sponsored tech talks (technology and other relevant professional topics)